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Chinese cardinal ready for arrest under Hong Kong security law
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun has said that while he will remain prudent, he is prepared to suffer under Hong Kong's sweeping new national security law.
Bishop, priests urge better Argentine response to COVID-19 in slums
Clergy serving the shantytowns surrounding Buenos Aires warn of COVID-19 spreading through their densely populated communities. They decried an inadequate response from health authorities.
Mexican bishops call for more robust response to COVID-19 crisis
Mexico's bishops have expressed alarm that as COVID-19 expands across the country, health authorities are allowing the resumption of economic activity.
Wisconsin bishop denounces activist’s call to destroy statues of Jesus
Bishop Donald J. Hying of Madison said it would be "illuminating and healing" for the country "if we had a national education effort to understand our history" instead of destroying statues in anger.
Federal executions in Indiana said to ‘add violence on top of violence’
News that federal executions would start at a federal prison drew words of remorse and prayers from Catholic leaders for the crime victims and for the inmates slated to die.
Catholic leaders denounce rejection of federal death penalty appeal
Sister Helen Prejean and others decried the likely execution this summer of four men "using an untested lethal injection protocol during a global pandemic."
Msgr. Ratzinger, retired pope’s brother, dies at 96
Retired Pope Benedict XVI had visited his ailing elder brother Georg, a musician, June 18 in Germany where he had been hospitalized.
Pro-life advocates say ruling puts clinic profits over women’s health
Pro-lifers said the U.S. Supreme Court's June 29 ruling striking down a Louisiana abortion law puts women's health in danger, allows subpar care and gives abortion clinics a pass on regulations for "the sake of profit."
Court says tax credit program can’t exclude religious schools
The Supreme Court said June 30 that Montana's state scholarship program violated the federal Constitution by excluding religious schools. The court ruled that if a state offers financial aid to private schools, it must allow religious schools also to take part.
Amid pandemic, upheaval, world’s poor seen needing help more than ever
A "perfect storm" of circumstances has posed a challenge to raising awareness and funds to help the poor, said Eustace W. Mita, the Philadelphian and first lay leader of the U.S.-based Papal Foundation.