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Kansas priest gives invocation at groundbreaking for Eisenhower Memorial
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- Nov 5, 2017
Although President Dwight D. Eisenhower was not a Catholic himself, a priest gave the invocation at the groundbreaking of his national memorial on the National Mall. A Catholic priest and military veteran, Father Leo Blasi of Hays, Kansas, also lived in Eisenhower’s hometown of Abilene, Kansas which many say would have satisfied the former president.
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Trump to nominate Kansas’s Brownback as religious freedom envoy
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Jul 27, 2017
Although Kansas Governor Sam Brownback’s legacy in his home state may be mixed due to the failure of his trickle-down economic policies, he’s now set to take on a job of enormous interest to religious communities in America and around the world — Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, after President Donald Trump announced his intention to name Brownback on Wednesday.
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Catholic college drops judge as speaker after abortion protests
- Associated Press, Church in the US
- Sep 10, 2016
The provost of Newman University in Wichita, Kansas, has withdrawn an invitation to a Kansas Supreme Court justice to speak on the state’s constitution, citing unspecified security concerns related to opposition to the lecture by abortion opponents.
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Police brace for anniversary of tumultuous anti-abortion protests

Twenty-five years after anti-abortion protests led to almost 2,700 arrests outside local abortion clinics, the city of Wichita in Kansas is bracing for another anniversary round of demonstrations under the heading of the “Summer of Mercy,” with local police preparing a 60-page operational plan.

Pope's call for a death penalty halt won't work in the US

Life

Feb 24, 2016

Pope Francis called on Catholic political leaders earlier this week to put a moratorium on using the death penalty during the Church’s Jubilee of Mercy, but it’s a rallying cry unlikely to have much of an effect in the United States. “I appeal to the conscience of the rulers, so

Indianapolis archbishop will soon decide whether to resettle refugee family

Church

Dec 4, 2015

Indianapolis Archbishop Joseph W. Tobin is expected to decide within the next few days if the local Catholic Charities agency will move ahead with plans to resettle a Syrian family in Indiana, over objections from Gov. Mike Pence. Tobin promised Pence at an hourlong State House meeting Wednesday, during which the