Church in the US

Two-time cancer survivor joins NJ bishops in opposing assisted suicide
- Oct 31, 2016
While one terminally ill young women made headlines across the country two years ago by advocating for the right to end her life, another, living in New Jersey, decided to begin quietly campaigning for the right to stay alive, saying, “The sanctity of life is deteriorating … Nobody should be telling you that you don’t have rights to medication.”

By Jennifer Mauro
White and Latino Catholics deeply divided in 2016, panel says
- Oct 31, 2016
Delve into the poll numbers, and trends emerge that speak to the future of Catholic voting in the U.S. While white Catholics favor Donald Trump over Democrat Hillary Clinton 48 to 41 percent in a recent PRRI poll, the opposite is true of non-white Catholics, the vast majority of whom are Latino. Those non-white Catholics choose Clinton over Trump 78 to 17 percent.

By Lauren Markoe
Legalizing pot hurts kids and the poor, California bishops say
- Oct 30, 2016
Several California bishops have come out strongly against Proposition 64, on the ballot this November which would decriminalize marijuana for adults in the state age 21 and older, warning of risks to health, to children, to road safety, and to economically challenged communities.

By Catholic News Agency

Poker playing priest faces child porn charges
- Oct 30, 2016
Ranked in the top 5,000 in the US in terms of poker winnings, Father Kevin Gugliotta of New Jersey has been arrested in Pennsylvania for allegedly uploading child pornography to an internet chat room, charges his lawyer says the priest “vigorously” denies.

By Associated Press
Two charged in beating of 82-year-old priest in Kansas City
- Oct 30, 2016
Two men have been charged with beating and robbing an 82-year-old Catholic priest in Kansas City, Kansas, in an attack that saw Father Thomas Kearns struck in the face and knocked unconscious, forced to undergo surgery to repair broken facial bones.

By Associated Press
Facing historic growth, Boston seminary buys back space
- Oct 29, 2016
After experiencing the most dramatic growth over the last decade in its entire history, St. John’s Seminary in Brighton, Mass., the seminary of the Boston archdiocese, has bought back space it had sold to Boston College in order to accommodate the influx.

By Donis Tracy

Two-time cancer survivor joins NJ bishops in opposing assisted suicide