Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula Archives

Capital punishment, immigration issues compel Iowa bishops to speak up

Jul 8, 2020

Iowa’s Catholic bishops are taking a prominent stand on three pressing federal issues, one involving the imminent execution of four federal death-row inmates, another on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, and the third on the asylum system.

By Barb Arland-Fye

Judge blocks law requiring 24-hour waiting period before getting abortion

Jul 3, 2020

A Johnson County district court judge has temporarily blocked the enforcement of the state’s new law requiring women to wait 24 hours before having an abortion, the Iowa Catholic Conference reported July 1.

By Barb Arland-Fye

Iowa bishop says pandemic should prompt release of Guatemalan detainees

May 28, 2020

Davenport Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula has asked the chief of Homeland Security in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, to release three Guatemalan immigrant detainees because the COVID-19 pandemic “places immigrants being detained in a very vulnerable situation.”

By Barb Arland-Fye

Catholic bishops from around the world urge peace talks to solve Cameroon crisis

Feb 19, 2020

A group of international bishops, including Bishop Thomas Zinkula of Davenport, have called on Cameroon’s President Paul Biya to hold peace talks with English-speaking separatists in the majority French-speaking African country.

By Crux Staff

Bishop: Witnessing at ICE check-in is going to peripheries as pope asks

Dec 13, 2019

Bishop Thomas R. Zinkula of Davenport, Iowa, was among 18 people who packed the reception area of a federal facility in Cedar Rapids, keeping vigil as Alejandro Guzman checked in with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.

By Barb Arland-Fye

Lutheran Palestinian bishop wins Iowa Catholic peace award

Oct 5, 2019

Bishop Munib Younan told an audience in Rock Island it is “imperative that all religions teach their adherents to see the Image of God in those who are different.”

By Barb Arland-Fye