The Diocese of Brooklyn filed a lawsuit in federal court Oct. 8 against the state of New York, charging that Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s new orders reducing church capacity violates the First Amendment’s guarantee of the free exercise of religion.
Brooklyn Diocese files federal lawsuit over violation of religious freedom
Archbishop urges ‘renewed vigor’ to protect life, stop ‘evil’ of abortion
New York state’s new law allowing abortion essentially “for any reason through all nine months of pregnancy” and similar legislation proposed in Virginia and other states is “evil, pure and simple,” said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee Feb. 2.
‘Horrendous attack weighs on all our hearts,’ says cardinal
Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old from Uzbekistan, mowed down pedestrians and bicyclists in New York late in the afternoon Oct. 31 and left at least eight people dead and 11 others injured.