The Pope’s intervention arrives amid ongoing debates over the weight of episcopal authority in synodal processes. Photo: Vatican Media

Abortion reaches the UN Security Council once again

In Trump 1.0, U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft threatened to veto any Security Council resolution with language on “sexual and reproductive health.” She told the UN Security Council that “The U.N. should not put itself in a position of promoting or suggesting a right to abortion, whether it is humanitarian or development work.”