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Unwed Moms and a Lesson From Mother Cabrini, by  Dawn Beutner  – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, first canonized citizen of the United States by the Roman Catholic Church. Unknown date, presumably before 22 December 1917. This work is in the public domain. Wikimedia.

By Dawn Beutner, Catholic World Report, July 28, 2025

Dawn Beutner is the editor of a new book All Things Are Possible: The Selected Writings of Mother Cabrini (Ignatius Press, 2025). She is also the author of The Leaven of the Saints: Bringing Christ into a Fallen World (Ignatius Press, 2023), and Saints: Becoming an Image of Christ Every Day of the Year also from Ignatius Press. She blogs at dawnbeutner.com and has been active in various pro-life ministries for more than thirty years.

By God’s grace, we can learn from one another how to support the physical and emotional well-being of a pregnant teen and her unborn child without forgetting their eternal salvation.

A recent news article from PillarCatholic reported on a public spat between the government of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the Catholic schools of that country. In a circular dated July 14, 2025, the education ministry ordered all Congolese schools to stop excluding pregnant girls during the new academic year.

About half of the DRC’s population is Catholic, and about a quarter of all schools in the Congolese education system are Catholic schools.

The priest who serves as the national coordinator of Congolese Catholic schools wrote a letter a few days later to Catholic school administrators. He explained that a previous agreement between Catholics and the government takes precedence over this new directive and that girls in Catholic schools who become pregnant will continue to be transferred to state-run schools, following the existing practice. …

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