A U.S. lawmaker and a Catholic bishop are calling for action to end a months-long blockade that has left some 120,000 ethnic Armenians at risk of what he and other experts are calling “genocide by starvation.”
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Federal Judge Orders Texas to Remove Anti-Migrant Buoys from the Rio Grande
A federal judge ordered Texas to remove controversial floating barriers in the Rio Grande and prohibited the state from adding or reinstalling additional buoys in the river aimed at reducing unauthorized border crossings, marking a legal victory for the Biden administration, which opposed their use.
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, Catholic champion for Unjustly Detained, Dies at 75
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, an influential figure in Democratic politics who also was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and energy secretary in the Clinton administration, died Sept. 1, according to a statement from the Richardson Center for Global Engagement.
California’s Rising Assisted Suicide Rate Alarms Catholics
When California in 2021 relaxed its physician-assisted death rules — easing access to the lethal means for residents to take their own lives — several lawmakers behind the change cited a desire to aid the terminally ill, invoking a sort of legislative altruism.
Football Coach Fired, Then Reinstated, for Praying on Field Resigns
Joseph Kennedy, the high school assistant football coach who lost his job after praying on the field with players after games, then won it back in a Supreme Court ruling, just resigned, a week after the season’s first game.
Catholic Student Center at Washington’s Howard University Named for Sister Thea Bowman
On a day when history was made 60 years earlier with the March on Washington, Father Robert Boxie III, the Catholic chaplain at Howard University in the nation’s capital, noted that the campus ministry program there was making history of its own, with the blessing and dedication of its new Sister Thea Bowman Catholic Student Center.
U.S. Archbishop Lays Out ‘Urgent’ Need for ‘Radical Solidarity’ with Working Families
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ domestic policy committee said the nation has “urgent work” to do to really show a “radical solidarity with working families” and provide ongoing support for the well-being of all families.
Texas Supreme Court Allows Ban on Some Transgender Surgeries, Hormonal Interventions for Minors
The Texas Supreme Court on Aug. 31 moved to allow a state law banning certain types of medical or surgical gender reassignment procedures for minors who identify as transgender to go into effect.
U.S. Bishops Call for ‘Radical Solidarity’ With Working Families
This year’s annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops emphasized the need for a “radical solidarity” with working families.
As ‘Hands and Feet of Christ,’ Catholic Charities Helps Floridians Ravaged by Idalia
Catholic aid workers are rolling up their sleeves to help tens of thousands after Tropical Storm Idalia slammed into the nation’s Southeast.