Attorney General Lynn Fitch argued in an Oct. 23 statement, “The Biden administration attempted to import its radical theories on gender identity into ObamaCare, forcing healthcare providers to perform surgeries or prescribe drugs even if it violated their best medical judgment.”
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U.S. Army says religious support contracts to be ‘reexamined’ after Archbishop Broglio objects to their cancellation
Archbishop Timothy Broglio said the cancellation of all religious support contracts for Army chapels, “including those for religious educators, administrators, and musicians,” placed on Catholics “an insurmountable restriction on the free exercise of religion.”
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Chicago archdiocese’s plan to award Senator Durbin for immigration work meets pushback over abortion
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., in whose diocese Senator Dick Durbin resides, said he was “shocked” by the announcement due to Durbin’s public position on abortion.
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says she forgives husband’s alleged killer at memorial attended by Trump, Vance
“The answer to hate is not hate,” Erika Kirk said. “The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love. It’s always love.”
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Bishops and Catholic leaders call for prayer after conservative activist Charlie Kirk shot and killed
Kirk was 31 and a married father with two young children. He was shot in the neck, reportedly by a sniper from a campus building. The suspect is still at large, and a manhunt is underway, according to law enforcement officials.
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JD and Usha Vance to visit Minneapolis following Catholic school shooting
Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha Vance, will visit Minneapolis Sept. 3 to pay their respects to the victims of the deadly Aug. 27 mass shooting at a Catholic school liturgy, his office said.
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Kilmar Abrego Garcia faces deportation to Uganda after surrendering to ICE
“Deporting him to Uganda far away from his family reveals the cruelty embedded in this administration’s immigration policies,” J. Kevin Appleby, senior fellow for policy at the Center for Migration Studies in New York.
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Federal judge blocks Texas 10 Commandments law from being enforced in some school districts
A federal judge on Aug. 20 partially blocked Texas from enforcing a law requiring public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments, finding the law violated the First Amendment.
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U.S. bishops’ international policy chair urges Trump to expand humanitarian assistance in Gaza
The chair of the USCCB Committee on International Justice and Peace put out a statement on July 31 demanding more humanitarian action for those in Gaza.
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California diocese suspends Mass obligation for those with ‘genuine fear’ of ICE raids
Amid concern over immigration enforcement raids in the area, the bishop of San Bernardino, California, on July 8 issued a dispensation from the obligation to attend Sunday Mass for the faithful if they fear for their well-being.