Improving from COVID-19, Cardinal Burke grateful for medical staff, prayers August 30, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Raymond L. Burke thanked health care workers as well as people who have been praying for him as he continues his recovery from COVID-19.
Catholic Medical Association joins lawsuit over HHS ‘transgender mandate’ August 27, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News The Philadelphia-based Catholic Medical Association Aug. 26 joined in a lawsuit challenging the Biden administration’s mandate that doctors and hospitals perform gender-transition procedures on any patient despite any moral or medical objections of the doctor or health care facility.
High court orders Biden administration to restore Trump-era border policy August 26, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News The U.S. Supreme Court late Aug. 24 said the Biden administration must restore a Trump-era immigration policy known as “Remain in Mexico.”
Cardinal Burke remains hospitalized, but he’s off ventilator, out of ICU August 23, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Vatican, World News Cardinal Raymond L. Burke remained hospitalized for COVID-19 but as of Aug. 21 he was taken off a ventilator that he had been on for some days and taken out of the ICU to be returned to a regular hospital room, according to the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in La Crosse.
Faith leaders raise concerns over online censorship of religious speech August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News YouTube’s blocking of a theologian’s talk on the Christian view of sex as a “content violation” raises serious concerns that “religious speech is being censored online,” San Francisco’s archbishop and Focus on the Family’s president said in a Wall Street Journal op-ed they co-wrote.
Keynotes, working sessions, reflection time make up LCWR’s virtual assembly August 21, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: News, Vocations, World News Hundreds of members of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and guests convened for the organization’s annual assembly Aug. 11-13, which was as much a retreat as a meeting.
Two nuns killed in South Sudan after vehicle ambushed along highway August 19, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Two Catholic nuns were shot and killed along a highway in South Sudan Aug. 16 as they were returning home to Juba. Seven other sisters survived the attack.
Bishops say U.S. government must urgently act to relocate fleeing Afghans August 18, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Afghanistan, Feature, News, World News Saying that a humanitarian crisis is developing in Afghanistan, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees called on the U.S. government to “act with utmost urgency” to resettle thousands of Afghan citizens entering the country under special immigrant visas.
Archbishop says Berlin Wall was a Good Friday in German history August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Catholics and Protestants gathered Aug. 13 to remember the day in 1961 when their city was divided, becoming a symbol of the Cold War.
Shrine honoring Blessed Stanley Rother hits milestone as dome set in place August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Saints, World News Construction of a shrine honoring an American priest who was killed while serving in Guatemala reached a milestone with the installation of a massive dome.
Cardinal holds officers, their families ‘in prayer,’ decries gun violence August 13, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Cardinal Blase J. Cupich of Chicago offered prayers for slain police officer Ella French and her family and friends “as they cope with the terrible reality that their loved one was taken from them in another act of senseless violence.”
First Nations, Catholics work at North Vancouver residential school site August 12, 2021By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Three First Nations are working with the Archdiocese of Vancouver to look for remains of at least 12 students who attended the former St. Paul’s Indian Residential School.
