All posts by Kevin Edward White

Abortion Providers in 3 States Sue Over Coronavirus Restrictions

04/01/2020 at 11:49 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Mary Margaret Olohan, Daily Signal, March 30, 2020 “Ohio’s politically motivated attack on abortion providers is not grounded in science or public health,” says Elizabeth Watson, staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.(Photo: Catherine Delahaye/Getty Images) Abortion... read more

Pope and Closest Aides Do Not Have Coronavirus: Vatican

03/30/2020 at 7:36 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Reuters, March 28, 2020 VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said on Saturday that tests carried out in the building where Pope Francis lives after one resident tested positive for coronavirus showed that the pontiff and his closest aides do not have the disease. Francis appears to be in... read more

Kentucky AG Calls for Statewide Hold on Abortions Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

03/30/2020 at 4:50 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Zachary Evans, National Review, March 30, 2020 Kentucky AG Daniel Cameron Kentucky attorney general Daniel Cameron on Friday emphasized his support for a statewide ban on abortion procedures during the Wuhan coronavirus pandemic. Cameron released a statement after Planned Parenthood... read more

Louisiana Supreme Court Case Shows Abortion Clinics to be Houses of Horror

03/30/2020 at 10:33 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Fr. Frank Pavone, Crisis, March 30 2020 To those who think that legal abortion means safe abortion, think again. The Supreme Court is currently contemplating important questions surrounding a Louisiana state law requiring hospital admitting privileges for abortionists. Among the amicus... read more
"A Woman's Choice" abortion clinic

GHOULISH: Christians Arrested for Praying Outside NC Abortion Clinic Deemed ‘Essential.’ Who Will Be Next?

03/30/2020 at 10:20 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Paula Bolyard, PJ Media, March 29, 2020 Four men were arrested outside a Greensboro, N.C., abortion clinic on Saturday. Their alleged crime? Praying in public while the county is under a stay-at-home order due to the coronavirus pandemic "At least 20 children were brought to... read more

‘A surge of hope’: The fight to keep crisis pregnancy centers open

03/30/2020 at 8:51 AM By Kevin Edward White
By Matt Hadro, Catholic News Agency, March 28, 2020 Facing limited hours and a shortage of supplies, crisis pregnancy centers are working and praying with pregnant women, helping any way they can during the pandemic. “I think we need to storm the heavens for all the women in crisis... read more

USCCB liturgy chair: No cell phones for confession, no delegation of sacramental anointing

03/30/2020 at 8:42 AM By Kevin Edward White
By JD Flynn, Catholic News Agency, March 27, 2020 The chair of the U.S. bishops’ committee on liturgy wrote to U.S. bishops Friday, to clarify issues related to the sacraments of penance and anointing of the sick which have arisen during the Church’s response to the coronavirus... read more

De Blasio threatens to permanently close places of worship that resist shutdown order

03/30/2020 at 8:33 AM By Kevin Edward White
By John Gage, Washington Examiner, March 29, 2020 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio warned religious leaders that their places of worship could be shut down permanently if they did not follow the city's order to pause services during the coronavirus pandemic. "A small number of religious... read more

Abortion groups challenge Texas’ coronavirus-driven elective surgery ban

03/28/2020 at 3:01 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic News Agency, March 27, 2020 Texas has said that elective surgeries, including abortions, must halt to free up medical supplies for the response to the coronavirus, but pro-abortion rights groups have filed a lawsuit challenging the order on behalf of the state's abortion... read more

Coronavirus aid bill passes Senate, blocks loans to Planned Parenthood

03/27/2020 at 1:55 PM By Kevin Edward White
By Catholic News Agency, March 26, 2020 The Senate passed a massive relief package Wednesday night to counter the economic damage caused by the coronavirus pandemic. The measure passed unopposed, and contained provisions excluding abortion providers like Planned Parenthood from access to... read more

Virginia governor makes attending church a criminal offense

03/27/2020 at 1:18 PM By Kevin Edward White
Catholic News Agency, Richmond, Va., March 25, 2020 Virginia governor Ralph Northam has made it a criminal offense to attend church services of more than 10 people. An executive order went into effect in the commonwealth on Tuesday, March 24, making any non-essential gatherings a misdemeanor... read more
Easter Mass in 2019.

Pope Francis will offer Easter liturgies in St. Peter’s Basilica and with no public

03/27/2020 at 10:42 AM By Kevin Edward White

COVID-19: Decree regarding the celebration of the Easter Triduum

03/26/2020 at 2:09 PM By Kevin Edward White
Pope Francis celebrates Mass on the feast of the Annunciation, March 25, 2020, in the chapel of the Domus Sanctae Marthae at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)

Italian priest at guesthouse where Pope Francis lives tests positive for coronavirus

03/26/2020 at 2:08 PM By Kevin Edward White

Church Refuses to Close Because Planned Parenthood is Still Open Killing Babies

03/26/2020 at 1:58 PM By Kevin Edward White

Vatican Decree intended to stop contagion, not prayer

03/26/2020 at 1:46 PM By Kevin Edward White

VATICAN DECREE (re Easter Triduum): “In time of Covid-19 (II)”

03/26/2020 at 1:35 PM By Kevin Edward White

Don’t Cancel Easter!

03/25/2020 at 10:52 AM By Kevin Edward White

Court-appointed official says Vatican failing on accountability in Nienstedt case

03/24/2020 at 11:23 AM By Kevin Edward White

At least 60 Italian priests have died after contracting coronavirus

03/24/2020 at 11:13 AM By Kevin Edward White