The Vatican COVID-19 Commission’s health task force has created a “resource kit” for church leaders and families on COVID-19 and vaccines.
Church must help counter resistance to vaccines, health care expert says
Oklahoma archbishop praises state leaders for laws restricting abortion
Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed three bills restricting abortion into law April 26
Wisconsin opens investigation of sexual abuse in the state’s five dioceses
The statements from the four dioceses said requests for documents from the Wisconsin Department of Justice will undergo legal review before a decision is made on how to respond.
Priests arrested after bishop-designate shot in South Sudan
Three local priests have been arrested in connection to the attack and shooting of Italian-born Bishop-designate Christian Carlassare.
Research with fetal tissue from elective abortion called ‘deeply offensive’
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee April 20 called on the Biden administration to fund research “that does not rely upon body parts taken from innocent children killed through abortion.”
Report shows higher-than-average COVID-19 spread among immigrant detainees
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, facilities had “an average infection rate five times that of prisons and 20 times that of the general population.”
Vatican approves strengthening safeguarding studies, research in Rome
Starting Sept. 1, 2021, the university’s center will become the Institute of Anthropology, offering interdisciplinary studies on human dignity and care and expanding its scope in research.
Nuncio tells besieged Mexican town: The church is with you
Drug cartels have battled each other and blocked highways in the besieged town, leaving residents unable to travel freely and causing shortages of everything from food to fuel.