Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures

A move by the US Department of Justice to expand how it carries out federal death sentences – to include electrocution, gas or firing squads along with lethal injections – has been sharply criticised by Catholic anti-death penalty activists. “The administration’s eleventh-hour push to bring back firing squads and institute additional methods of execution flies... Read More

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November 30, 2020

Court says New York limits on houses of worship restrict religious freedom

In a recent 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court lifted the pandemic restrictions on congregation sizes at houses of worship imposed by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. The Diocese of Brooklyn, New York, and two Orthodox Jewish synagogues in separate filings appealed to the nation’s high court, claiming the governor’s executive order violated their free exercise... Read More

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November 3, 2020

As US election polls open, tensions and fences rise around the country

On the morning of 2nd November, the US capital looked as if it was getting ready for a hurricane rather than an election. Drills buzzed away, fences went up, hammers pounded, as workers rapidly boarded up buildings, from law offices, to hotels, to vitamin and coffee shops in the vicinity of the White House. Peter Matlon, a Catholic... Read More

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October 2, 2020

Catholic voters urged to consult Church’s social teaching for guidance on issues

As early voting begins in some states for the forthcoming presidential election, Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori is urging his parishioners to be guided by the principles of Catholic social teaching as they complete their ballots. ‘Casting our votes is not only a privilege but also a solemn duty and responsibility,’ Archbishop Lori wrote in... Read More

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September 16, 2020

Court sides with Trump on right to end Temporary Protected Status

The US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit has sided with President Donald Trump’s plan to end a particular immigration protection status that would have allowed people from six countries that have suffered disasters to remain in the United States. The court said the president was within his rights to revoke what’s called Temporary... Read More

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August 17, 2020

Rising gun violence points up bishops’ call for commonsense gun laws

Earlier this month, when the Bishop of El Paso, Texas, prayed for the dead on the first anniversary of the mass shooting at a Walmart in his city, he made that solemn tribute in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has kept much of the US public in social-distancing mode. The level of gun... Read More

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July 27, 2020

US surgeon general says preventing spread of virus must be top priority

Calling the Covid-19 pandemic the challenge of a lifetime, the United States’ top public health official travelled to Florida seeking help in slowing the deadly outbreak. He also came to learn how one urban community has managed a particularly low incidence of infection spread among the homeless. Dr Jerome Adams, the 20th US surgeon general,... Read More

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July 25, 2020

US Church to focus on engagement with young people

The US Catholic Church will convene a yearlong intercultural process with young adults and ministry leaders from today, Saturday 25th July. Called ‘Journeying Together’, the initiative aims to explore the Catholic Church’s engagement with young people of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds and mobilise US Catholics on issues and concerns related to culture and race... Read More

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July 21, 2020

Court orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to begin accepting new applications for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals programme, or DACA. Judge Paul W. Grimm of the US District Court for the District of Maryland said his order “restores the DACA policy to its pre-5th September 2017 status”, referring to the day the Trump... Read More

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July 17, 2020

US judge stops Georgia’s ‘heartbeat law’ from ever taking effect

Archbishop Gregory J. Hartmayer of Atlanta said he was “deeply disappointed that a federal judge struck Georgia’s so-called “heartbeat law” on abortion. “All life is precious from the moment of conception until its natural end. As a people of faith, we must defend and protect life in all its stages,” he said, adding he was... Read More

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Catholic leaders decry additional federal execution measures

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As US election polls open, tensions and fences rise around the country

Catholic voters urged to consult Church’s social teaching for guidance on issues

Court sides with Trump on right to end Temporary Protected Status

Rising gun violence points up bishops’ call for commonsense gun laws

US surgeon general says preventing spread of virus must be top priority

US Church to focus on engagement with young people

Court orders Trump administration to accept new DACA applications

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