Catholic leaders praise Biden's executive actions helping immigrants
- Jan 22, 2021
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Connecticut lawmakers plan to push ahead with religious exemption bill
- Jan 21, 2021
Leaders of the Connecticut General Assembly’s Public Health Committee on Monday pledged to move forward this session with legislation that would end a religious exemption from vaccinations for schoolchildren, despite being called on by thousands of residents to postpone plans.
Chicago cardinal clashes with USCCB president over Biden welcome
- Jan 21, 2021
Just before noon Wednesday Joe Biden put his left hand on his family’s 19th century Bible and was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States, and the first Catholic president since John F. Kennedy in 1960.
Joe Scheidler, known as ‘the godfather of pro-life activism,’ dies at 93
- Jan 20, 2021
Joe Scheidler, founder of the Pro-Life Action League in Chicago and one of the towering figures of the pro-life movement for decades, died of pneumonia Jan. 18 surrounded by his family at his home on Chicago’s Northwest Side. He was 93.
Biden’s Bible puts him in line with inaugural tradition
- Jan 20, 2021
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will take their oaths of office on Wednesday using Bibles that are laden with personal meaning, writing new chapters in a long-running American tradition — and one that appears nowhere in the law.
Inauguration: End violence, resume civil discourse, respect all life, Dolan says
- Jan 20, 2021
New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan said he hoped the “renewal and rededication that usually accompanies the inauguration of a new president” also will be a time for violence to subside and civil discourse to resume.
Sotomayor: 13 executed under Trump administration ‘deserved more’ from court
- Jan 20, 2021
Although the Supreme Court cleared the way for the execution of Dustin Higgs Jan. 15, two justices made their objections known loud and clear in dissents that called into question the speed of these decisions and even the constitutionality of capital punishment.
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