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A South Carolina mother has been accused of doing the unthinkable: stabbing her newborn infant to death with a letter opener as he was born and in the moments that followed. Authorities say An T. Ngo, 31, fatally stabbed her newborn boy with a “long, metal letter opener” while she was giving birth to him in her home in Easley, South Carolina, on March 7. She then allegedly placed the baby’s lifeless, bloody body in a trash bag and left it outside her door. Her boyfriend later called police, and the child was declared dead at the scene. “I’ll be...

The Story Behind the Pro-Life PardonsAn insider tells the story of how pro-lifers were persecuted by the Biden Administration under the FACE Act, and how Trump pardoned them.Joe Biden is weaponizing the Justice Department to viciously persecute pro-life activists and Americans of faith. Just last month, the Biden DOJ got Paulette Harlow, a 75-year-old woman in poor health, sentenced to two years in prison for singing outside of a clinic…she was singing, actually a beautiful voice, she was singing beautifully outside of a clinic. And fearing she would die in prison, her husband pleaded with the judge for mercy and...

A San Antonio woman is in custody after giving birth in a Whataburger bathroom and attempting to push and flush her newborn baby girl down the toilet, authorities say. Police report that two hours after Mallori Strait entered the Whataburger lobby, she went into the bathroom for a few hours. The restaurant’s manager checked on Strait several times after hearing noises from the stall and even offered her water. When concern for Strait’s well-being grew, the manager called the police, according to KSAT. When authorities arrived on the scene, they were met with a tragic situation. Reports on the incident...

[Catholic Caucus] Bishop Strickland’s successor asked for delay on vote banning Communion for pro-abort politiciansBishop Strickland's successor for the Diocese of Tyler, John Gregory Kelly, has a history of siding with heterodox prelates on major issues such as giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians and mass immigration.Bishop Joseph Strickland’s successor for the Diocese of Tyler, Texas, Bishop John Gregory Kelly, has a history of siding with heterodox prelates on major issues such as giving Communion to pro-abortion politicians and mass immigration.In 2021, Kelly, who was tapped to lead the Diocese of Tyler last week, was among the 68 bishops who wanted...

[Catholic Caucus] BREAKING: Archbishop Cordileone urges prayers for Pelosi after she boasts of receiving Holy Communion despite his ban“I would like to renew my request for prayers for the Speaker’s conversion on the issue of human life in the womb,” wrote Archbishop Cordileone about Nancy Pelosi.San Francisco’s Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has responded to Nancy Pelosi’s rejection of his ban on her receiving Holy Communion, urging Catholics to pray for her “conversion on the issue of human life in the womb.”Late on December 10, Archbishop Cordileone issued a statement in response to a recent interview former Speaker of the House gave...

President Joe Biden, a “devout” Catholic, awarded the highest civilian honor a person can receive to a woman who has the blood of more than four million unborn babies on her hands. The former president of Planned Parenthood, Cecile Richards, was given the presidential medal of freedom for her “absolute courage” and “fearless[ness],” who Biden says has “carved an inspiring legacy.” Richards, the daughter of late Democrat Texas governor Ann Richards, spent 12 years working as Planned Parenthood’s chief; during that time, she was caught on an undercover video arranging payments for fetal tissue from aborted babies. However, the clinic...

‘Devout Catholic’ Joe Biden Awards Medal of Freedom to Former President of Planned ParenthoodJoe Biden has awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the former president of the abortion provider Planned Parenthood.Biden, who likes to describe himself as a “devout Catholic,” awarded Cecile Richards the medal during a private ceremony on Wednesday.“Carrying her parents’ torch for justice, she’s led some of our Nation’s most important civil rights causes – to lift up the dignity of workers, defend and advance women’s reproductive rights and equality, and mobilize Americans to exercise their power to vote,” Biden reportedly said during the ceremony.“A leader...

[Catholic Caucus] Pope Francis Visits Italian ‘Abortion Icon’For those who don’t know who that is, Bonino has been the face of abortion in Italy for decades, having first established a facility in the country in the 1970s which she successfully used as a launching pad to push for its legalization years later.She has also spent decades as an elected official in the Italian and European Parliaments advocating for left-wing causes like recreational drug use and lax divorce laws.According to LifeSite journalist Michael Haynes, Bonino is credited for being “at least partially responsible for over 6 million abortions,” including 10,141 illegal...

[Catholic Caucus] Bergoglio Prostrates Himself to the Builders of Evil. By Danilo QuintoThe author is a former and repented high-placed activist of the immoral and inhuman Italian Partito Radicale which works for the de-Christianisation of Italy. On 5 November Bergoglio paid a visit to Emma Bonino, a former leader of that party. Bergoglio called Bonino a ‘great Italian’ (sic) and example of ‘liberty and resilience’ (sic).I too frequented that terrace in Trastevere, in the centre of Rome.Those were the years when strategies were being imagined and constructed to consolidate the results of the divorce and abortion laws, which destroyed the...

CV NEWS FEED // A group of Wyoming pro-life advocates recently contended at their local city council that they are the ones who experienced harassment, not the clinic escorts and patients, when they were praying and offering pro-life alternatives outside of a local abortion facility. Eighteen or more pro-lifers shared at the Casper City Council on October 15 about the situation related to the Wellsprings Health Access Clinic, which performs abortions, according to Oil City News. According to Cowboy State Daily, Casper Council member Brandy Haskins had said at a Council meeting the week before that a Wellsprings employee and...

[Catholic Caucus] Cardinal Gregory offers tough advice on the Catholic Dilemma this US electionWith less than twenty days to go before the United States presidential election, the cardinal archbishop of Washington, DC, has acknowledged the difficulties Catholics face in deciding how to vote – but reiterates that choose they must. Speaking to Crux while in Rome for this month’s Synod of Bishops on Synodality, Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington stressed the importance of having a broad understanding of key national challenges and urged Catholics not to be single-issue voters on 5 November. “No political party and certainly no individual candidate...

The MCCL State Victory Fund has launched a digital ad campaign spotlighting the reality of vulnerable newborns and Minnesota’s extreme policies that threaten them. The ads call out specific incumbent state lawmakers for their votes to repeal a requirement that born-alive infants receive medically appropriate care that could save their lives. “As our ad campaign shows, abortion survivors are real people,” said Cathy Blaeser of the MCCL Victory Fund. “But DFL lawmakers voted to put newborns who survive abortion or who have disabilities in jeopardy—to allow these babies to be set aside to die. We’re going to make Minnesotans aware...

ABC airs pro-life ad showing aborted babies during The View, comparing hosts to Nazis‘These are dead human beings, murdered by abortion that you promote,’ said presidential candidate Randall Terry in a powerful pro-life ad with images of aborted babies that ABC was forced by law to air during The View. ‘A vote for Kamala is a vote for murdered babies.’A hard-hitting pro-life ad that aired during ABC’s popular daytime talk show The View highlighting that aborted so-called “fetuses” are actually murdered children has infuriated the broadcast world, including the show’s co-hosts, whom the ad compared to Nazis because of their...

[Catholic Caucus] Left-wing nun downplays evil of abortion during virtual ‘Catholics for Harris’ eventSister Simone Campbell made light of the Church’s teachings while backing the Democrat candidate, saying 'Our Catholic faith doesn't require the outlaw of abortion … it’s about protecting life at all stages. We must trust people's conscience' while apparently equating issues like housing and immigration with killing a pre-born child. Dissident Catholics, including heterodox Sister Simone Campbell, made light of the Church’s teachings on the evil of abortion during the inaugural “Catholics for Harris” virtual meeting this week in order to cast Kamala Harris, who has avoided...

One piece of PBS’s coverage of the last night of the Democratic National Convention unwittingly confirmed media labeling bias on PBS and other “mainstream “outlets. First, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart hailed the Democrat’s vice-presidential nominee Tim Walz for using the supposedly less frightening and more convincing term “gun safety legislation” instead of “gun violence laws” (a term the PBS News Hour also uses). Anchor Geoff Bennett expanded that "language" argument to encompass abortion. Anchor Geoff Bennett, 9:50 p.m. (ET): We have seen Democrats do that on abortion, talking less about abortion rights and more about reproductive freedom. To what...

On Tuesday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “The Last Word,” House Speaker Emerita Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that abortion rights are “about the ever-widening circle of freedom in this country,” and “The Founders had a beautiful vision for our country,” “but they couldn’t put it in the Constitution. But thank God they made it amendable.” So freedom expanded on subjects like the abolition of slavery and ending voting discrimination on the basis of race and gender, which were done by constitutional amendments, until Roe v. Wade was overturned. Pelosi stated, “Trump, the worst job record of any president since Herbert Hoover....

Presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump addressed the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention in Chicago on Wednesday, where he discussed what he called the Democratic party’s ‘radical’ position on abortion, with journalists Rachel Scott and Kadia Goba moderating. Abortion is not freedom Goba, a politics reporter at Semafor, asked Trump, “Do you think the Republican Party is getting too judgy about people’s lives, when you think about abortion and when you think about what JD Vance has said [about childless women]?” Trump replied, “I think that the Democrat party is the one that has the problem, I...

In assessing her candidacy for president of the United States, it is instructive to consider the positions taken by Vice President Kamala Harris on several issues of interests to Catholics. She is a passionate defender of abortion rights. Indeed, there is no record of her opposing abortion at any time during gestation or for any reason whatsoever. She has also tried to force states that restrict abortions to obtain federal approval from the Department of Justice before implementing them. When Harris was California’s attorney general, she bludgeoned pro-life activist David Daleiden. He used undercover videos to expose how abortion operatives...

Katarina Jovanovic, a 28-year-old woman from Germany, has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of her newborn baby girl. After Jovanovic gave birth at home in secret on September 12, she then dropped her newborn daughter out of the apartment window. Prosecutors alleged she committed the crime because she feared motherhood would ruin her career. Jovanovic was sentenced to just seven and a half years in prison. “The accused was not prepared to put her life plans, especially her professional advancement, on hold for a child,” argued public prosecutor Mareike Hafendoerfer. “That was her decision when the baby...

The Biden administration is telling emergency room doctors they must perform emergency abortions when necessary to save a pregnant woman’s health. That's following last week's 6-3 Supreme Court ruling that failed to settle a legal dispute over whether state abortion bans override the federal law that requires hospitals to stabilize patients. The Health and Human Services agency