Mixed messages on Biden reveal not just competing camps, but divided hearts
- Jan 22, 2021
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Rural churches respond to spread of virus
- Nov 28, 2020
When Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds last week announced new coronavirus restrictions for Iowans, including broad mask-wearing requirements and restrictions on the size of gatherings, she excluded religious activities.
Iowa Catholics pray for workers at meat-packing plant who died of COVID-19
- Aug 8, 2020
A small group of deacon formation classmates, parishioners and family members stood across the road from Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Columbus Junction July 24 and prayed Morning Prayer.
‘It spreads so fast,’ says Iowa Catholic; COVID-19 hits 15 family members
- Jul 31, 2020
As Alicia Nava flipped through family photographs the morning of July 25, she said solemnly from behind a floral print mask, “We were taking precautions.” Three weeks before, she was in the hospital battling COVID-19, as were five of her relatives.
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.
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.
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.”
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