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Un nuevo informe de una encuesta del Pew Research Center revela que 8 de cada 10 católicos estadounidenses tienen una opinión favorable del Papa León XIV, el primer pontífice nacido en ese país.

El gobierno de China ha reconocido a dos obispos “clandestinos”, es decir fieles a Roma y nombrados por el Papa, pero según la agencia Asia News, especializada en noticias de la Iglesia Católica en el continente asiático, estaría promoviendo una “narrativa” que genera tensiones entre los católicos.

Con la misión de “facilitar ese encuentro de Dios con otras personas” y transmitir alegría y esperanza, Paola Pablo, cantautora de origen dominicano, llegará a México el 20 y 21 de septiembre para participar en Cielo Abierto, evento que combina música, adoración eucarística y predicación.

Antonia Salzano, madre de San Carlo Acutis, recientemente canonizado, envió un mensaje especial a la juventud mexicana en el que los invitó a ser “santos, no fotocopias”.

Juan Carlos Carredano, productor ejecutivo de la película Carlo Acutis, el Influencer de Dios, presentó la cinta al Papa León XIV, quien lo alentó a él y a su equipo a seguir contando la vida de los santos.

CNA Staff, Sep 12, 2025 / 17:34 pm (CNA).

Here is a roundup of recent pro-life and abortion-related news.

WHO promotes abortion drugs on essential medicines list

Pro-life leaders are expressing concern after the inclusion of abortion drugs in the World Health Organization (WHO)’s latest annual list of essential medicines, noting that the drugs can be “dangerous.” 

The Model List of Essential Medicines 2025, released on “International Safe Abortion Day,” had a section dedicated to abortion drugs, which for the first time did not include the caveat that these medicines are not legal or culturally acceptable everywhere. 

According to WHO, “the list no longer carries the boxed caveat, in place since 2005, that singled out these medicines as only to be used where legally permitted or culturally acceptable.” 

Dr. Ingrid Skop, vice president and director of medical affairs for Charlotte Lozier Institute and a board-certified OB-GYN, expressed concern that these drugs were being recommended for use around the world, noting that abortion drugs “have a complication rate four times higher than surgical abortion.”

“As many as 1 in 5 women will suffer a complication and 1 in 20 will require surgical completion,” Skop said. “Also, a recent study found that more than a third of women who used abortion drugs were unprepared for the amount of pain and bleeding they encountered.” 

“Yet, the WHO is recommending them for use in Third World countries with poor health care systems, where emergency care may be limited or nonexistent,” Skop continued. 

Calling the action a part of WHO’s “population control and eugenic agenda,” Skop urged WHO to “instead devote more attention to helping countries obtain the resources they need to impact maternal mortality, such as blood-banking for hemorrhage and antibiotics and critical care for infections.”

Michael New, a senior associate scholar at Charlotte Lozier Institute and assistant professor of practice at The Catholic University of America, added that the WHO’s decision was “disappointing” but “unsurprising.” 

“The World Health Organization has always had a very strong pro-abortion bias,” New said, noting that the group’s website calls abortion a “critical public health and human rights issue.”

New also noted that WHO’s website “wrongly claims that ‘evidence shows that restricting access to abortions does not reduce the number of abortions’ even though many, many studies show the incidence of abortion is impacted by its legal status.” 

Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America Political Affairs Communications Director Kelsey Pritchard expressed gratitude that the U.S. withdrew from WHO in January.  

“Thank goodness President Trump withdrew the U.S. from the pro-abortion WHO, and they keep proving that decision right,” she said. “The abortion industry — including foreign, criminal abortion drug rings — is flooding every state with these drugs whether it is legal or not.” 

Pritchard also noted that abortion drugs can be “dangerous.” 

“A mounting body of scientific evidence and real-life horror stories show abortion drugs are far more dangerous than advertised, exposing the serious risks they pose to women and girls as well as unborn children,” she said. 

“Week after week these dangerous drugs cause more tragedies: Women coerced and poisoned, girls rushed to the ER, mothers dying along with their babies — all while the abortion industry profits from deception and abusers benefit from unfettered drug access,” Pritchard continued.

Pritchard anticipated the FDA’s review of the drug, saying that “we’re confident once the evidence is examined, it will be undeniable how harmful these drugs truly are.” 

California bill allowing anonymous abortion prescriptions awaits signature 

A California bill that would allow health care providers to anonymously prescribe abortion drugs could soon become law. 

The law would allow a pharmacist to dispense abortion drugs “without the name of the patient, the name of the prescriber, or the name and address of the pharmacy, subject to specified requirements,” according to the bill’s text.

The law would allow abortionists to anonymously mail abortion medication to patients in California and in the rest of the U.S., even to states where these abortion drugs are illegal. This could make it harder for states to build legal cases against abortionists operating under shield laws.

New York attorney general intervenes in landmark legal battle over abortion shield laws

Attorney General Letitia James is intervening in a landmark case involving a New York abortionist who allegedly prescribed abortion pills to a patient in Texas, where the drugs are illegal. 

James sent a letter to the state Supreme Court judge in Ulster County, New York, saying she has the authority to enforce the state’s shield law — a law designed to protect abortionists who violate the laws of other states. 

The abortion shield law prohibits state officials from cooperating with investigations into abortionists for out-of-state abortions, even when abortion drugs are illegal in those states.

The legal battle is among the first challenges to New York’s 2023 shield law.

El Papa León XIV propone para el mundo de hoy la cultura de la reconciliación ante la “globalización de la impotencia”, la sensación de que no hay nada que hacer ante el mal, la injusticia y el dolor.

Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Sep 12, 2025 / 16:34 pm (CNA).

The Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism established in 2017 by former United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) President Cardinal Daniel DiNardo of Galveston-Houston has officially been made a permanent body within the USCCB, according to a Sept. 10 press release. 

The newly created, permanent Subcommittee for the Promotion of Racial Justice and Reconciliation “continues the important work of the temporary ad hoc committee,” said USCCB President Archbishop Timothy Broglio. 

“As we call for a genuine conversion of heart that will compel change at both individual and institutional levels,” he continued, “I invite all Catholics to join us as we carry forward this work to recognize and uphold the inherent dignity of every person made in the image and likeness of God.”

The Administrative Committee of the USCCB approved the transition on Sept. 9, according to the press release, noting that the new subcommittee falls “under the Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.” 

The Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development “seeks to teach about and to witness to the intrinsic dignity of the human person as an antidote to the grave sin of racism” and “explores and implements concrete solutions to address the racism that still pervades our society and our Church today, and works in collaborative ways to strengthen the response of all people to this evil.”

The move to cement the ad hoc committee comes as part of the bishops’ “ongoing commitment to addressing the sin of racism,” the release noted. 

The committee’s chair, Bishop Joseph Perry, also weighed in, stating: “I speak on behalf of the bishop members, staff, and consultants of the Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism in expressing gratitude for the transition of our committee to a standing subcommittee so that the important work of evangelization of the faithful and the community at large may continue in the spirit of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” 

The committee will officially begin work after this year’s November plenary assembly.

En los últimos 25 años fueron asesinados a causa de su fe 1.624 cristianos en todo el mundo, según indica la investigación llevada a cabo por una comisión vaticana. El domingo el Papa León XIV hará un homenaje a estos “testigos de la fe”.

Decanos de las facultades de medicina de siete universidades chilenas se pronunciaron sobre el proyecto de ley que busca autorizar la eutanasia en el país.