VATICAN (CNS): “One of the greatest challenges to every mother is the thought that the child in the womb may be diagnosed with a grave illness,” Kevin Cardinal Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life, said on May 23, opening the two-day Yes to Life: Caring for the Precious Gift of Life in its Frailness conference on protecting life.
 

ROME (CNS): “It’s a question of changing a culture, and I believe that will take time, but I think that Pope Francis—more than anybody—has tried and continues to try and continues to bring about that change each and every day,” Kevin Cardinal Farrell, Prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life, said during a question-and-answer session after the presentation of the book, A Pope Francis Lexicon, on March 1 in Rome.