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Florida hospital tests medications to lessen pandemic’s deadly impact

Jan 4, 2021

With public health officials warning that COVID-19 vaccination rollouts won’t do much to tame the immediate dangers of the pandemic, a Florida Catholic hospital is looking at medications and protocols to protect and save lives.

By Tom Tracy

Chaplain to death-row inmates says use of death penalty in U.S. must end

Nov 14, 2020

A Catholic chaplain to Florida’s death-row inmates used a virtual forum to focus on his most significant lifetime pursuit — raising awareness about the wrongness of America’s use of the death penalty.

By Maurice Beaulieu

Speaker: Legalizing assisted suicide allows state to decide who lives, who dies

Nov 7, 2020

Currently, seven states and the District of Columbia allow assisted suicide — a physician-aided agreement to end a patient’s life based solely on the patient qualifying for death under state law — determined to be terminally ill or otherwise incapacitated in the state’s view.

By Maurice Beaulieu

Investigators looking for man who set pews on fire at Catholic church

Sep 23, 2020

Sheriff’s officials in Florida are looking for a man who was caught on security cameras breaking into a church and setting some pews on fire.

By Associated Press

Cuban-American judge from Florida on Trump high court list

Sep 22, 2020

A daughter of Cuban exiles who has had a swift rise as a lawyer and judge is on President Donald Trump’s short list to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court.

By Curt Anderson and Adriana Gomez Licon

Dioceses brace for damage as Hurricane Sally slams into Gulf Coast

Sep 17, 2020

A Catholic archdiocese and two dioceses in three states are assessing damage from what’s being referred to as catastrophic flooding caused by Hurricane Sally.

By Rhina Guidos