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Texas bishops publish new guidelines for use of wine at Mass in prisons
May 15, 2024
NEW YORK – In an effort to assist pastoral ministry staff, educate facility staff, and create better access to Mass for inmates, the Texas bishops have published new guidelines for the use of sacramental wine in state correctional institutions. The guidelines, published May 14 through the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops, essentially reads as an
US bishops urge Congress to address maternal health amid mortality rate surge
May 14, 2024
The three chairmen of the United States Conference of Catholics Bishops recently wrote to Congress to urge lawmakers to address the nation’s serious maternal health problems, with the bishops citing the country’s high maternal mortality rate. The American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology published research in March that found that maternal death rates in the United States
US archdiocese ‘refused to comply’ with sexual abuse investigation, Washington attorney general claims
May 11, 2024
Amid a campaign for the governorship, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced on 9 May that he has taken legal action against the Archdiocese of Seattle, alleging that it has “refused to comply” with his investigation into whether the three Washington dioceses used charitable funds to cover up allegations of child sex abuse by clergy.
Diocese was justified in firing gay teacher, rules federal appeals court
May 09, 2024
NEW YORK – In a reversal of a 2021 decision, a federal appeals court has ruled that a Catholic school in the Diocese of Charlotte, North Carolina, was justified in firing a substitute teacher over his same-sex relationship. Lonnie Billard, the teacher, sued Charlotte Catholic High School and the Diocese of Charlotte in 2017 for
Biden administration’s non-discrimination regulations ‘fundamentally redefine the practice of medicine’, Florida lawsuit claims
May 08, 2024
NEW YORK – A lawsuit filed by the State of Florida and on behalf of the Catholic Medical Association (CMA) claims that new non-discrimination regulations implemented by the Biden administration is unlawful overreach that will “fundamentally redefine the practice of medicine”. On May 6, the federal register officially published changes the Department of Health and
Bishops in US election battleground state of Iowa call out state and federal lawmakers over immigration crisis
May 07, 2024
In response to the US immigration crisis the Catholic bishops of Iowa have taken aim at both state and federal lawmakers. The bishops have called on the former to seek alternatives to a new law that allows the state to deport undocumented immigrants back to their home country, while calling on the latter to “do
US bishops criticise new federal regulations for advancing ‘ideological view of sex’
May 06, 2024
NEW YORK – While the Biden administration’s recent healthcare-based discrimination regulations don’t include an abortion mandate as the US bishops had feared, they’ve criticised how the regulations advance an “ideological view of sex”. The Department of Health and Human Services on 26 April published a final rule on non-discrimination provisions – known as Section 1557
Augustine Institute’s new campus aims to become evangelising ‘crossroads’ for renewal of Church in US
April 30, 2024
NEW YORK – Following the purchase of a sprawling new campus in Florissant, Missouri, the president of the Augustine Institute says he envisions not only growth of its graduate program, but for the campus to become a “crossroads” for the renewal of the US Church. Founded in 2005 in Denver, Colorado, as an education apostolate,
Catholic medical community ‘deeply concerned’ by Biden’s nursing home plan
April 25, 2024
NEW YORK – A national association of Catholic healthcare facilities in the US is “deeply concerned” that controversial new nurse staffing standards for long-term care facilities – implemented this week by the Biden administration – will actually harm nursing facilities and the residents they serve. The Catholic Health Association (CHA), which includes the more than
Columbia University’s Catholic chaplain condemns ‘malevolent’ nature of pro-Palestine protests
April 24, 2024
NEW YORK – Amid pro-Palestine protests at Columbia University that have led to more than 100 arrests, forced classes online and left Jewish students and faculty feeling unsafe and unwelcome, the university’s Catholic chaplain says the path forward “must first ensure that such malevolent protests, brimming with anti-Semitism, be stopped”. Father Roger Landry, who is
United States would ‘grind to a standstill’ without immigrants, says Texas bishop
April 17, 2024
Bishop Mark Seitz of El Paso is encouraging the US Congress to create more avenues to legal employment authorisation for those with pending asylum claims, arguing that communities across the United States would “grind to a standstill” without the labour of undocumented immigrants. “Without their contributions, American communities would grind to a standstill,” Seitz said
New York cardinal shelters from Iranian drone attack during trip to Holy Land
April 15, 2024
NEW YORK – Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York said he and those he traveled with to the Holy Land “feel safe and secure” in Bethlehem, after they were forced to take shelter the night before when Iran launched a missile attack against Israel. “This Sunday in Bethlehem all does seem calm and bright, and
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