Hemispheric summit ends with immigration deal among countries June 14, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, World News Twenty countries from the Americas, including the United States, signed a declaration June 10, the last day of the troubled Summit of the Americas, committing to help and protect “all migrants, refugees, asylum-seekers, and stateless persons, regardless of their migratory status.”
‘Don’t look away,’ children plead to Congress in gun control message June 7, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News The young organizers of Students Demand Action were the first of several groups to arrive in Washington in early June for a week of protests demanding that U.S. lawmakers pass restrictions on high-powered weapons such as the ones that have been used in mass shootings, including at schools.
Amid pain in Uvalde, there’s still ‘goodness in people,’ says archbishop June 1, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News It feels as if there are no silver linings in the cloud of lingering grief and horror that surrounds Uvalde, Texas, as the city began May 31 to bury the first of 19 children and their two teachers killed a week earlier during a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School.
Women religious call on public to push lawmakers on gun control May 27, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, World News Various orders of women religious said that lamenting the May 24 mass killing of 19 children and two of their teachers in Uvalde, Texas, also should accompany action so that it doesn’t happen again.
Bishops push gun control; some call mass shootings ‘pressing life issue’ May 25, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, World News Some U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at least 19 children and two of their elementary school teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas.
Remembering Buffalo shooting victims, Catholics pray for end to racism May 25, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News From a Franciscan parish in a city where one of the victims once lived to a border city that experienced a similar mass shooting, Catholics around the nation have gathered to remember those gunned down May 14 in Buffalo, N.Y., and are praying for an end to violence and racism.
Archbishop Lori joins bishops expressing sorrow, condemning racially motivated shooting in Buffalo May 16, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Racial Justice, World News Several U.S. Catholic bishops expressed sorrow and called out racism and gun violence after reports of a May 14 mass shooting in Buffalo, New York, that left at least three injured and 10 dead — a crime authorities categorized as likely motivated by hatred for Black people.
Officials condemn violence, threats after high court leak on abortion case May 10, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News Biden administration officials issued a statement against violence May 9 following protests outside the homes of two Supreme Court justices in the Washington area as well as a spate of vandalism and disruptions targeting locales of groups that oppose abortion. Some of them include Catholic churches.
Outside the Supreme Court, Catholics join diverse chorus on abortion May 4, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, Supreme Court, World News Crowds arrived in Washington shortly after the online news site Politico published a report late May 2 from a leaked draft opinion signaling that the majority of Supreme Court justices seem set to overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 legal decision that legalized abortion in the country.
From refugee to world leader, Madeleine Albright remembered in Washington April 28, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, Obituaries, World News Madeleine Albright was eulogized April 27 at a funeral service at Washington’s National Cathedral by notable friends and family gathered to remember the happy but also turbulent times in the life of the former U.S. Secretary of State, the first woman to hold that position.
Ukrainian Catholic leader to Russian Orthodox Church: Stop Putin’s war March 16, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News The leader of the Ukrainian Catholic Church in the United States said March 15 that he hoped leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church would “open up and hear the Gospel,” which says, “Do not kill,” and tell Russian President Vladimir Putin to stop killing innocent Ukrainians.
U.S. church offers prayers, solidarity after Russia attacks Ukraine February 24, 2022By Rhina Guidos Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, News, War in Ukraine, World News As war broke out in Europe Feb. 24, with Russia’s early morning attacks on various parts of Ukraine, Catholics in the U.S. joined Pope Francis in prayers for the people of the East European nation and for peace.
