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Nebraska governor set to sign bill that bans dismemberment abortions
On: 8/14/2020, , In: Nation
LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) -- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts praised the Aug. 13 passage of a bill by the state Legislature to ban a second-trimester abortion procedure that removes the fetus in pieces and he is expected to sign it. When state Sen. Suzanne Geist ...

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Nebraska governor set to sign bill that bans dismemberment abortions
On: 8/14/2020, , In: Nation
LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) -- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts praised the Aug. 13 passage of a bill by the state Legislature to ban a second-trimester abortion procedure that removes the fetus in pieces and he is expected to sign it. When state Sen. Suzanne Geist ...

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Academy for Life criticizes new Italian rules for RU-486
On: 8/14/2020, , In: World
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Italian health ministry's liberalization of recommendations for using RU-486 to induce an abortion is a further sign that the government is moving away from its promise to help women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy, ...

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Fifth lawsuit accuses retired Bishop Hubbard of Albany of alleged abuse
On: 8/14/2020, Mike Matvey , In: Nation
ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) -- A fifth lawsuit has accused retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany of alleged sexual abuse. The lawsuit -- filed the week of Aug. 10 in the state Supreme Court in Albany on behalf of a 55-year-old man currently living in South ...

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Rising gun violence amid pandemic points up bishops' call for commonsense gun laws
On: 8/14/2020, Chaz Muth , In: Nation
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, prayed for the dead on the first anniversary in early August of the mass shooting at a Walmart in his city, he made that solemn tribute in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has ...

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Mary foretold COVID-19 pandemic, alleged visionary claims
On: 8/14/2020, Robert Duncan Catholic News Service , In: World
TREVIGNANO ROMANO, Italy (CNS) -- An Italian woman who claims to regularly experience supernatural visions said Mary told her in September 2019 that a new disease would soon emerge from China. "Pray for China, because new diseases will come from there, ...

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Obituary: Father Henry F. Doherty, former pastor in Hanover

For almost a quarter century, he was pastor of St. Mary of the Sacred Heart Parish in Hanover, serving the parish between September 1, 1981, and September 1, 2004. On Aug. 1, 2020, Father Doherty died in Dennis, where he had resided with his sister Marie since his retirement; he was 90 years old.

LINCOLN, Neb. (CNS) -- Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts praised the Aug. 13 passage of a bill by the state Legislature to ban a second-trimester abortion procedure that removes the fetus in pieces and he is expected to sign it.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The Italian health ministry's liberalization of recommendations for using RU-486 to induce an abortion is a further sign that the government is moving away from its promise to help women and families facing an unplanned pregnancy, the Pontifical Academy for Life said.

ALBANY, N.Y. (CNS) -- A fifth lawsuit has accused retired Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany of alleged sexual abuse. The lawsuit -- filed the week of Aug. 10 in the state Supreme Court in Albany on behalf of a 55-year-old man currently living in South Carolina -- alleges that Bishop Hubbard sexually abused the man when he was 10 on a church bus trip from St. James Parish, which is now St. Francis of Assisi Parish, to West Point in 1975.

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- When Bishop Mark J. Seitz of El Paso, Texas, prayed for the dead on the first anniversary in early August of the mass shooting at a Walmart in his city, he made that solemn tribute in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, which has kept much of the U.S. public in social-distancing mode.

TREVIGNANO ROMANO, Italy (CNS) -- An Italian woman who claims to regularly experience supernatural visions said Mary told her in September 2019 that a new disease would soon emerge from China. "Pray for China, because new diseases will come from there, all ready to infect the air by unknown bacteria," wrote Gisella Cardia in a message she alleges came from Mary.