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Julie Asher

COVID-19 bill OK’d without Hyde language to prevent funding of abortion

Julie Asher March 2, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News

On the House floor ahead of the vote — which came at 2 in the morning (EST) — Rep. Chris Smith, N.J., criticized Pelosi and the House Rules Committee for refusing to allow a vote on an amendment to add language to the bill “to ensure that taxpayers aren’t forced to subsidize abortion,” as provided by the long-standing Hyde Amendment.

Gomez: U.S. bishops’ working group set up last November completes work

Julie Asher March 2, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, Vatican, World News

A special working group of the U.S. bishops formed last November to deal with conflicts that could arise between the policies of President Joe Biden, a Catholic, and church teaching has completed its work, Los Angeles Archbishop José H. Gomez said in a March 1 memo to all the U.S. bishops.

Bishops: If passed, Equality Act will ‘discriminate against people of faith

Julie Asher February 25, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

If the House of Representatives passes the Equality Act, its mandates will “discriminate against people of faith” by adversely affecting charities and their beneficiaries, conscience rights, women’s sports, “and sex-specific facilities,” said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.

Franciscans mark 600th year of pope establishing Commissaries of Holy Land

Julie Asher February 16, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

The Franciscans trace their presence in the Holy Land to 1217 when St. Francis of Assisi founded the Province of the Holy Land, a custodian priory of the order he founded in 1209 — formally called the Order of Friars Minor.

Biden repeats call for unity, says faith can show way forward in dark times

Julie Asher February 5, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News

For many in the nation, this is a dark time because of job loss, hunger, evictions, sickness and death because of COVID-19, “so where do we turn? Faith” President Joe Biden said, addressing the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 4.

CNS’ ‘staying power’ credited to quality coverage of church, its role in world

Julie Asher February 4, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News

A hundred years ago the U.S. Catholic bishops were insightful enough to realize there was a role for a news service to provide accurate information about the church, said Thomas Lorsung, retired director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service.

Bishops, other pro-life leaders decry Biden action ending ‘Mexico City policy’

Julie Asher January 28, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

President Joe Biden’s memo rescinding the so-called “Mexico City policy” Jan. 28, the eve of this year’s March for Life, “is a deeply disturbing move, especially when the president says he wants national unity,” tweeted Jeanne Mancini, president of the March for Life Defense and Education Fund.

Bishops say order on LBGTQ equality has implications for religious liberty

Julie Asher January 25, 2021
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Religious Freedom, World News

President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging executive order to extend existing federal nondiscrimination protections to LGBTQ people exceeds the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 2020 ruling on the issue in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, said the chairmen of five U.S. bishops’ committees.

Bishops: Getting COVID-19 vaccine is ‘act of charity,’ supports the common good

Julie Asher December 14, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

The “gravity” of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and “the lack of availability of alternative vaccines,” are “sufficiently serious” reasons to accept the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna vaccines, the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Dec. 14.

Use of Pfizer, Moderna COVID-19 vaccines is morally acceptable, say bishops

Julie Asher November 25, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Feature, News, Respect Life, World News

While confusion has arisen in recent days in the media over “the moral permissibility” of using the COVID-19 vaccines just announced by Pfizer Inc. and Moderna, it is not “immoral to be vaccinated with them,” the chairmen of the U.S. bishops’ doctrine and pro-life committees said Nov. 23.

Archbishop Lori says Blessed McGivney, as parish priest, embodied beatitudes

Julie Asher November 2, 2020
By Julie Asher
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Video, World News

Blessed Michael J. McGivney was a priest of the Eight Beatitudes because he lived them “so consistently and thoroughly” as a parish priest and as the founder of the Knights of Columbus, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, the Knights’ supreme chaplain.

Father McGivney, model parish priest with ‘zeal’ for Gospel and serving faithful, beatified

Julie Asher October 31, 2020
By Julie Asher
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News, Saints, World News

Blessed Michael J. McGivney was “an outstanding witness of Christian solidarity and fraternal assistance” because of his “zeal” for proclaiming the Gospel and his “generous concern for his brothers and sisters,” Pope Francis said in his apostolic letter of beatification of the founder of the Knights of Columbus.

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