Archbishop Joseph Naumann Archives

Report outlines ‘dangers, harms’ assisted suicide laws pose to disabled

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Oct 18, 2019

The National Council on Disability said in a new study that “the dangers and harms” physician-assisted suicide laws present to people with disabilities “appear to be as significant today” as they were in 1997 and 2005, when the council earlier analyzed the harms of such laws.

Jurors deadlock in trial of priest accused of molestation

Associated Press, Church in the US
Sep 17, 2019

A Kansas jury was unable to reach a verdict in the trial of a Kansas priest who was suspended from the ministry after he was accused of inappropriately touching a young girl on two occasions.

New documentary looks at immigrants’ integration into U.S. heartland

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 28, 2019

Filmmakers Matthew McGlinn and John Altman set out to, in McGlinn’s words, “elevate the conversation” about immigration with their new documentary, “Immigrants in the Heartland: Who Are We Following?”

AMA applauded for reaffirming its opposition to doctor-assisted suicide

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 13, 2019

The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee praised a June 10 decision by the American Medical Association to reaffirm its long-standing policy against physician-assisted suicide.

HHS bans NIH from using fetal tissue from elective abortions in research

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 7, 2019

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services banned the National Institutes of Health from using human fetal stem cells from electively aborted babies for government funded research June 5.

Bishops praise HHS proposal for civil rights section of health care law

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
May 25, 2019

Four committee chairmen of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops May 24 praised proposed regulations to restore “the long-standing position of the federal government that discrimination on the basis of ‘sex’ does not refer to ‘termination of pregnancy’ nor ‘gender identity.'”