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Five women who said they were denied abortions under Texas law despite pregnancy complications filed a lawsuit challenging the state's abortion ban, while pro-life leaders defended the law, saying it already takes into account life-threatening situations.

Many of the 40 international trips Pope Francis has made over the past 10 years have been to countries where Christians are a minority or where he can draw close to people on the fringes of the world's attention.

Pope Francis’ teachings are generating a new buzz in Latin America as the region gears up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the election of one of its own as bishop of Rome and leader of the world’s more than 1.3 billion Catholics.

For a decade, even when discussing the internal workings of the Vatican, Pope Francis has insisted the Church is not the Church of Christ if it does not reach out, share the "joy of the Gospel" and place the poor at the center of its attention.

Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, whose attorneys have argued he should not stand trial due to "progressive and irreparable cognitive deficits," recalled the name of the man he allegedly sexually abused as a child, although he denied the sexual assaults.

Former President George W. Bush marked the 20th anniversary of the PEPFAR program at a Feb. 24 event in the nation's capital, casting the program as an example of the global leadership the United States can provide.

Three Jesuit astronomers and the 16th-century pope who commissioned the Gregorian calendar have recently been honored with having asteroids named after them.

This Lent, Jonathan Roumie has a full plate at work -- and an empty one at home, he told OSV News, thanks to some "heavy fasting" he plans to undertake between now and Easter.