In focus: Texas execution, war in Ukraine and Ethiopia, upcoming papal trip
Nation/World news briefs: Oct. 10, 2022
Man arrested for allegedly attacking Tulsa, Okla., cathedral, employee
Tulsa police arrested a suspect who allegedly injured an employee at Holy Family Cathedral’s school in downtown Tulsa with a sword late Oct. 5.
Seminar panelists: Clergy abuse has scarred minority Catholic communities
The image of a white victim does not tell the complete story of clergy sexual abuse in the United States, according to a number of panelists during an Oct. 5 online forum titled “Neglected Voices in the Clergy Sexual Abuse Crisis.”
Texas executes inmate who won court battle over prayer in death chamber
The 38-year-old inmate won a Supreme Court battle March 24 to have his pastor pray with him during his execution.
African faith leaders call for cancellation of punitive foreign debts
In the Oct. 5 statement, the leaders highlighted the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, saying it led to an economic contraction of more than 3% and reversed years of development progress on the continent.
Immigration advocates say DACA ruling should push Congress to act
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans affirmed a lower court’s ruling last year that said the Obama administration did not have the legal authority in 2012 to create DACA in the first place.
‘This is the church’: Stepping up in Fiona’s aftermath in Nova Scotia
“Communion is communion with community” is what the coordinator of youth ministry for the Diocese of Antigonish thought when she organized help for those following the devastation of post-tropical storm Fiona.
Vatican publishes schedule for papal trip to Bahrain
Pope Francis’ visit to Bahrain Nov. 3-6 will make him the first pope to visit the archipelago nation in the Persian Gulf.