Life News

Death penalty repeal advocates think 2013 is the year, but not all Catholics agree
Feb 04 2013
For years, death penalty repeal advocates have been working to abolish capital punishment in the state.

Forty years after Roe v. Wade, young lead the fight for life
Jan 25 2013
Young people from the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among the thousands marching for life Jan. 25.

Cardinal Stafford: 40 years after Roe, ‘I weep for the United States’
Jan 25 2013
Forty years of legalized abortion have profoundly demoralized American society, said U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford.

New York couple recalls their nearly 40 years of marching for life
Jan 25 2013
Bill and Peggy Devlin have taken a long view of the March for Life.

Young to old participate in annual March for Life in Washington, D.C.
Jan 25 2013
Area schools are among those participating in the annual March for Life.

Roe anniversary about ‘untold story’ of abortion’s victims, says Smith
Jan 23 2013
U.S. Rep. Chris Smith Jan. 22 struck a solemn note with an allusion to the song “Empty Tables, Empty Chairs” from “Les Miserables” during a Capitol Hill news conference to mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision.

Pro-lifer says activism has shown her ‘despair’ in abortion ‘mindset’
Jan 17 2013
Pro-life activist Lila Rose was a just child when she first became aware of the tragedy of abortion.

Transplant recipient helps others embrace life
Jan 17 2013
Rose Stelmack received a liver transplant in her early 50s.

Governor, NAACP push death penalty repeal in Maryland
Jan 15 2013
Statistics show the death penalty doesn't deter violent crime, involves racial bias and is a poor investment of criminal justice funding.

Curley men among students attending March for Life
Jan 09 2013
The Baltimore all-male high school hopes to send 80 students to the march on the National Mall Jan. 25.

40 years after Roe v. Wade, pro-life movement strengthens its resolve
Jan 06 2013
Forty years after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized abortions, the pro-life movement hasn’t stepped back in its resolve.

Recent Loyola Blakefield grad gives the gift of life to 8-year-old stranger
Nov 29 2012
Austin Luera had just begun his first semester at the University of South Carolina when the 18-year-old Loyola Blakefield graduate learned that his bone marrow was a match for an 8-year-old boy battling leukemia.

March for Life board of directors elects successor to late Nellie Gray
Nov 20 2012
Jeanne Monahan is the new full-time president of the March for Life Education & Defense Fund.

Love and loss: IND president finds love again
Jul 25 2012
One year and three weeks after her husband died, Mary Funke became acutely aware that she was alone during a Halloween party.

Archbishop Lori praises court for upholding free speech for pregnancy centers
Jun 27 2012
Archbishop William E. Lori of Baltimore called the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals June 27 decision to uphold a lower court’s ruling affirming a Baltimore City pregnancy center’s right to free speech “a major victory for the First Amendment and for those people who seek to live their lives and faith according to it.”