Washington D.C., May 6, 2021 / 21:01 pm (CNA). A Catholic bioethicist has repeated his objection to the Biden administration's decision that the National Institutes of Health no longer needs an ethics board's approval before awarding funding to researchers who will use fetal tissue obtained from elective abortions.

BOSTON -- After years of learning clinical skills in Boston's fast-paced medical community, a group of students from Boston College School of Nursing put their knowledge into practice in an environment that was different than they had grown used to -- yet not that far away.

LOWELL -- It's not actually Lourdes, France, or the praetorium in Jerusalem, or the hill of Golgotha. But looking up at the scale replica of Our Lady of Lourdes' grotto, lined with a "scala sancta" and Stations of the Cross, and topped with a crucifix that can be seen from a distance, one could easily imagine being in any of those places.