by Kathleen Lavery | May 16, 2025 | Abortion, Gender Dysphoria, Respect for Life
Missouri voters will have the opportunity to add health and safety protections for mothers and their preborn children back into the state constitution next year after the Missouri Senate passed a proposed constitutional amendment to undo parts of Amendment 3 on...
by Kathleen Lavery | May 16, 2025 | Abortion, Family Life, Gender Dysphoria, Marriage & Family, Respect for Life
On Mother’s Day 2025, Planned Parenthood released its 2023-2024 annual report, revealing that it provided over 400,000 abortions during the year, an increase of nearly 10,000 abortions from the previous year’s report and a record high in the organization’s troubling...
by Kathleen Lavery | May 16, 2025 | End of Life, Government
Christopher “Kit” Bond, a former Missouri governor and U.S. Senator, died Tuesday at 86. Bond served two terms as Missouri governor (1973 to 1977 and 1981 to 1985) and served in the U.S. Senate from 1987 to 2011. While in the U.S. Senate, he worked on issues such as...
by Kathleen Lavery | May 16, 2025 | Family Life, Marriage & Family, Pornography, Respect for Life
According to a 2022 Gallup poll, 41% of Americans deemed pornography morally acceptable, up from 34% in 2015. With pornography continuing to hurt American families at an alarming rate, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) just released the second...
by Kathleen Lavery | May 16, 2025 | Faith, Religious Liberty
Senate Democrats blocked the confirmation of Brian Burch for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See. Burch’s nomination had previously advanced along bipartisan lines by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Burch is the co-founder of the political advocacy group...
