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Federal bill hopes to decrease veterans’ suicide rate
Legislation in Congress intends to direct more money to local initiatives to stop an "epidemic" of suicide by veterans, of whom 20 to 22 on average commit suicide each day.
Wisconsin bishop says ‘both sides’ urge response to priest’s ‘divisive’ video
The bishop of La Crosse, Wisconsin, said he has privately begun to correct a pastor who in a video says Catholics who are Democrats must "repent" of their support for the party or "face the fires of hell."
Proposed class-action suit claims negligence by Vancouver Archdiocese
The suit claims the archdiocese was "systematically negligent" in protecting parishioners from abuse by clergy. Three other Canadian dioceses face similar class-action suits.
Bishop-designate of Duluth resigns following abuse accusation
Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Father Michel J. Mulloy, who had been appointed but not installed as bishop. A sexual-abuse allegation surfaced against him from the 1980s.
Profit over safety, especially in pandemic, ‘unjust,’ says Labor Day statement
"What was wrong before the pandemic has been accelerated now. What may have been hidden to some is now revealed," said the head of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development.
San Francisco archbishop asks city to ease Mass restrictions
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has asked the city's mayor and health officials to ease attendance restrictions on public Masses. Currently, Masses may be celebrated only outdoors in San Francisco, with only 12 attendees.
Hurricane destroys Louisiana churches, closes schools, displaces priests
Hurricane Laura destroyed six churches in the Diocese of Lake Charles, damaged a dozen others and chancery offices, and left a priests' residence uninhabitable.
Opposing racism must begin in one’s heart, archbishop tells Notre Dame students
The enduring misery of slavery in the U.S. must be reconciled by and within the church, Archbishop Wilton Gregory said in an online class at the university.
Nation is at ‘pivotal juncture’ in racial justice struggle, prelate says
All people are needed for "the task and the privilege of advancing the goals that were so eloquently expressed 57 years ago" at the first March on Washington, said the city's Archbishop Gregory.
Milwaukee archbishop prays for justice during visit to Wisconsin city
After a Mass Aug. 27 organized by the Catholic pastors in Kenosha, where people have been protesting the police shooting of a Black man Aug. 23, Archbishop Jerome Listecki toured the streets.