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US bishops warn against changing definition of brain death
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and a key Catholic bioethics group are both warning against a potential rewriting of US law to broaden the definition of brain death. Source: CNA.
Repatriating Ukrainian children papal envoy’s top priority in meeting with Biden
The top priority for Pope Francis’ peace envoy in his meeting with President Joe Biden was the repatriation of children forcibly deported from Ukraine to Russia, the papal nuncio to the US said. Source: NCR Online.
Cardinal Zuppi to meet President Biden to discuss Ukraine
Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, the Italian prelate tasked by Pope Francis to head a peace mission between Ukraine and Russia, is in the United States this week to discuss the conflict. Source: CNA.
Disgraced former cardinal ‘not competent’ to stand trial
Disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick is not competent to stand trial in Massachusetts on charges that he sexually abused a teenage boy nearly 50 years ago, according to a prosecution expert. Source: OSV News.
Pope accepts resignation of embattled US bishop
Pope Francis on Tuesday accepted the resignation of the embattled Bishop Rick Stika of Knoxville, Tennessee, who had been investigated by the Vatican for mismanagement of his diocese. Source: CNA.
Immigration, peace among key concerns for head of US bishops
The Church in the United States remains “committed to the common good” in navigating several political issues impacting the poor and vulnerable, especially migrants, the president of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has told the conference’s spring plenary assembly. Source: OSV News.
Florida confirms sending migrants to Catholic organisation in California
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s office has confirmed that it sent dozens of migrants directly to the offices of the Diocese of Sacramento Catholic Charities in California. Source: Crux.
Vatican gives Texas bishop ‘full governing powers’ over Carmelite convent
The Vatican has declared a Texas bishop to be the “pontifical commissary” of a Carmelite monastery, giving him “full governing powers” over the cloistered community. Source: OSV News.
Cardinal asks Americans to forgo right to bear arms
Amid a mounting debate in the US over gun control, Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark has entered the fray with a different argument: That people should voluntarily forgo their Second Amendment right to bear arms, for the betterment of society. Source: Crux.