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Sen. Lindsey Graham and U.S. Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., introduced legislation Sept. 13 that would institute a federal ban on abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Addressing U.N. delegates and staff as well as representatives of nongovernmental organizations at the Church of the Holy Family Sept. 12, Archbishop Wester reiterated his urgent invitation first made in a pastoral letter he issued in January.

After the death in the Brazilian forest of an Indigenous man who was thought to be the last of his tribe and who shunned all contact with outsiders, Amazonian church leaders said it is more important than ever to protect the region’s remaining semi-nomadic, isolated peoples.

The pope is attending the Congress of Leaders of World and Traditional Religions in Nur-Sultan.

Pope Francis thanked the Italian business leaders particularly for their support of Ukrainian refugees and other forms of charity and philanthropy.

A prolific author whose books won numerous awards and have been translated into multiple languages, Father O’Malley’s teaching style helped make history interesting and understandable and appealed to a wide array of clergy, theologians and undergraduate and graduate students as well as scholars of different faiths and even those who professed no faith.

In a Sept. 9 interview with Catholic News Service, he said it had been difficult to make “clear factual distinctions between deportations and evacuations,” or to obtain data on “forced and voluntary” relocations.

The 80 academicians, who include dozens of Nobel Prize winners, come from the fields of astronomy, chemistry, mathematics, physics, biology, medicine, botany, zoology, genetics and physiology and other specialties.