Bishop Michael J. Hoeppner presided over a farewell Mass to the Diocese of Crookston, Minnesota, April 15, two days after Pope Francis accepted the bishop’s resignation from pastoral governance of the northeast Minnesota diocese.
Bishop Hoeppner apologizes to Crookston Diocese during farewell Mass
Pharmaceutical companies urged to stop using abortion-derived cell lines
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities has launched a campaign urging Catholics to write letters to pharmaceutical companies urging them to stop the use of abortion-derived cell lines in the development and testing of vaccines.
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Police fire tear gas into Haitian bishops’ Mass for freedom
The Mass was part of a national strike in response to recent kidnappings of clergy and religious in Haiti and growing anarchy in the Caribbean nation.
Everyone has ‘obligation’ to ‘serve the Gospel of life,’ speaker tells Minnesotans
Obianuju Ekeocha was a featured speaker whose remarks were livestreamed from Great Britain for “Catholics at the Capitol” Day April 15, sponsored by the Minnesota Catholic Conference and based at the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul.
USCCB pro-life chairman calls HHS proposed rule on Title X ‘terrible policy’
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has published a proposed rule to rescind the Trump administration’s enforcement of a Title X provision that “draws a bright line between abortion and family planning,” as the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee chairman has described it.
‘Humble confidence’ seen as tool for U.S. to back human rights worldwide
“No one shall be held in slavery or servitude,” the U.N. declared in the fourth article of its 1948 landmark Universal Declaration of Human Rights, issued three years after the international body’s founding.
Church leaders from U.S., Amazon ask governments to protect rainforest
Less than a week before the U.S.-sponsored Leaders Summit on Climate, environmental and religious leaders said they are worried about talks on how to preserve the region and are asking government officials from the U.S. and the Amazon to look at kindly at the rainforest and its peoples.