On Thursday, Missouri’s Western District Court of Appeals rewrote the language for Amendment 3, the pro-life measure that will appear on the November 2026 ballot, after the judges ruled that the previous wording drafted by Secretary of State Denny Hoskins was not...
Citing recent restrictions on online sexual content made by the Missouri Attorney General, Pornhub – the largest pornography website – suspended service in the state of Missouri. Under the new rule put into effect on Monday, pornography sites that wish to operate in...
In 2024, there were 25 people executed in the United States. In 2025, there have already been 44 executions, and three more are scheduled this month. To combat this rise, Catholics and pro-life conservatives joined a broad coalition of more than 50 organizations...
Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway this week asked a federal court to roll back the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (“FDA”) recent decision to approve a new generic brand of mifepristone. The lawsuit challenges the latest FDA approval, issued on September...
The Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI) released its 2025 National Pregnancy Center Report, which showed that a record number of women and families received assistance from 2,775 pregnancy centers in the U.S. In 2024 alone, pro-life pregnancy help centers served over 1...
On Thursday, the Supreme Court of the United States upheld the federal government’s right to require passports to display an applicant’s biological sex. The policy comes after months of effort by the Trump Administration to reverse gender ideology rules at the federal...
As we paused on Veterans Day to honor and thank all who have served in the U.S. armed forces, a service agency announced they are expanding services for veterans in western Missouri and eastern Kansas. Catholic Charities of Kansas City-St. Joseph...
Bishops in multiple U.S. states are leading efforts to spare the lives of prisoners on death row. More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the death penalty’s re-legalization by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976. The state of Texas has executed 596 prisoners...
The U.S. Bishops this week responded to the Trump Administration’s announcement of new actions to expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF) and fertility treatments. “[W]e strongly reject the promotion of procedures like IVF that…freeze or destroy precious human...
At 6 p.m. on October 14, 2025, the state of Missouri executed Lance Shockley for the murder of Sgt. Carl Dewayne Graham. In his final public statement, Shockley said, “So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will...