By Matt McDonald Boston, Mass., Jun 26, 2025 / 14:59 pm Local Planned Parenthood facilities can’t force state governments to give them Medicaid funds through lawsuits because Congress didn’t create an individual right to the benefits, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Thursday. The 6-3 decision enables states to cut off public …

This Lent, Catholics across the archdiocese again joined 40 Days for Life—an annual campaign to pray outside of abortion businesses. This year, going beyond the campaign’s usual daytime hours, Adam Schad and John Beckstedt organized 78 men to fill the nighttime hours, enabling a 24-hour prayerful presence outside the Planned …

By Kate Quiñones CNA Staff, May 13, 2025 / 14:18 pm Planned Parenthood’s latest annual report shows a rising number of abortions and increasing federal funding for the abortion giant while other programs such as cancer screening and prevention services decrease. Released on Mother’s Day, Planned Parenthood’s 2023-2024 annual report, titled “A Force …

By Daniel Payne CNA Staff, Aug 19, 2024 / 13:30 pm Planned Parenthood is offering free abortions and vasectomies to residents and visitors in Chicago as the 2024 Democratic National Convention (DNC) kicks off in the city’s downtown. Planned Parenthood Great Rivers, which dispenses abortion and contraception in southern Illinois, said …

By Peter Pinedo CNA Staff, Nov 8, 2023 / 14:27 pm Months after being unanimously acquitted of all charges against him, Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck and his wife Ryan-Marie Houck filed lawsuits on Monday against the FBI and DOJ for malicious and retaliatory prosecution, abuse of process, false …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jul 25, 2023 / 15:27 pm Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department has launched an investigation after two pro-life sidewalk counselors were allegedly attacked outside of a Planned Parenthood clinic on July 22. A group of pro-life sidewalk counselors, who were there to encourage women to …

By Tyler Arnold Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Jun 29, 2023 / 15:55 pm Catholic priest and pro-life activist Father Fidelis Moscinski, CFR, has been sentenced to six months in federal prison for blocking access to a Planned Parenthood abortion facility by placing locks and chains on the gated entrance. Judge Steven Tiscione …

By Tyler Arnold Washington D.C., May 30, 2023 / 15:50 pm Baltimore police are searching for a man who is accused of attacking and beating two elderly pro-life activists who were praying outside of a Baltimore Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on May 26. According to witnesses cited in the police report, …

by Shannon Mullen Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 25, 2022 / 17:31 pm The arrest of a Catholic apostolate leader and father of seven in an FBI raid last week has sparked a groundswell of support for him and his family as new information has raised serious questions about the legality …

by Kevin J. Jones Denver Newsroom, Mar 24, 2022 / 17:00 pm MacKenzie Scott, an early Amazon leader and ex-wife of company founder Jeff Bezos, has given $275 million to Planned Parenthood, the United States’ largest abortion provider, including grants to 21 regional affiliates. Still more money from one of …