Saying that the pandemic is causing widespread economic challenges, the officials urged Congress and the White House to “put aside partisan politics and prioritize human life and the common good.”
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Barrett’s Supreme Court nomination puts Notre Dame Law School into national spotlight
Marcus Cole, the law school’s dean, described Barrett as an “absolutely brilliant legal scholar and jurist. She is also one of the most popular teachers we have ever had here at Notre Dame Law School.”
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Philippine bishop: Murdered lay leaders were ‘passionate to their calling’
Village chief Luzviminda “Kap Ida” Dayanda and treasurer Albert Orlina were reportedly shot dead by gunmen in Guinobatan Sept. 21 while heading home after a meeting at the town hall.
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House bans China imports made by forced Uighur labor
The U.S. House in a nearly unanimous vote passed an act that would ban imports to the U.S. from China’s Xinjiang region, the heartland of the Uighur Muslim people and where over 1 million Uighurs are reportedly living in forced labor camps.
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Report: Cardinal Pell is returning to Rome
Pell’s return follows Francis last week firing one of the cardinal’s most powerful opponents, Cardinal Angelo Becciu, over a financial scandal.
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Trump announces Judge Amy Coney Barrett as Supreme Court nominee
The president described Barrett as “one of the nation’s most gifted legal minds” to the court and praised her for her loyalty to the Constitution.
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Cardinal Tagle reflects on testing positive for COVID-19
Cardinal Tagle, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, was tested for the virus Sept. 7 before flying from Rome to Manila for the celebration of his mother’s 90th birthday. But arriving at the airport Sept. 10, he tested positive and was required to quarantine.
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Conference takes stock of progress in AIDS fight during COVID-19 pandemic
Cardinal Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Migrants and Refugees Section of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development, told the conference Sept. 24 that the world had made great progress in responding to HIV.
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Trump expected to nominate Amy Coney Barrett, a Catholic Notre Dame grad, to Supreme Court
Republicans were expecting President Donald Trump to announce Saturday that he is nominating Judge Barrett to replace Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
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Pope Francis delivers speech to United Nations about how to build a post-COVID world
Pope Francis insisted that addressing the pandemic and building a more just and equitable world involves looking at every aspect of national and international life.