2+ hour, 46+ min ago   (734+ words) The Catholic Herald The troubling lesson of Baby Gabriel McKenna West thought that surrogacy would be an easy way to make more money for her family. As a single mother, she knew she couldn’t afford to take on a second…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (444+ words) The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced a new initiative to stop the spread of abortion pills on Tuesday, August 18. The “Nationwide Invitation to Prayer & Action” was announced in a joint statement signed by USCCB President Archbishop Paul…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (310+ words) The biological parents of a child known as “Baby Gabriel” have given their permission for the first of three heart surgeries after previously requesting that the gestational carrier undergo an abortion. “Baby Gabriel” was diagnosed with hypoplastic left heart syndrome…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (314+ words) Gabriel, the child whose biological parents requested that his gestational surrogate mother have an abortion following the diagnosis of a heart defect, was born on Wednesday, August 12, in Texas, about two and a half weeks before his due date. Gabriel’s…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (297+ words) For much of the past decade, the global expansion of the surrogacy industry has proceeded largely unchecked, insulated from serious scrutiny by carefully curated narratives of mutual benefit and altruistic intent. That is finally changing: governments, international bodies and public…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (364+ words) A fascinating articulation of what a woman is for (as well as a man) comes from the theologian Dr Deborah Savage. In response to John Paul II’s encyclical on the dignity of woman, she took it upon herself to articulate…...

3+ mon, 3+ day ago   (609+ words) A Bill that would have scrapped the mandatory three-day waiting period after an initial consultation for an abortion in Ireland has suffered a resounding defeat in the Dáil (Irish Parliament). The Reproductive Rights (Amendment) Bill 2026, which would also have allowed…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (443+ words) The Catholic Herald Louisiana pro-lifers raise alarm over bills targeting pregnancy centres Pro-life advocates in Louisiana are warning that two bills before the state legislature could sharply curtail the work of pregnancy resource centres, in what they see as a…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (461+ words) The video is brief, almost throwaway. A five-month-old baby, reaching instinctively for ‘mama’, is met not with recognition but with laughter. Behind the camera, two fathers mock the child’s cry, captioning the moment with a glib ‘who’s going to tell…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago   (369+ words) What emerges from these accounts is not only the familiar struggles of raising young children, but a particular interpretation of them. The struggles of motherhood are framed not as the cost of something meaningful, but as evidence that the entire…...