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Check out these recent articles from around the web: Democracy advocates raise alarm after Supreme Court takes election case by Colby Itkowitz and  Isaac Stanley-Becker: “Voting rights advocates expressed alarm Friday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court said it will consider a conservative legal theory giving state legislatures virtually unchecked power over federal elections,… Read More Around the Web

Whole Life Responses to the Overturning of Roe

Tish Harrison Warren writes: The Dobbs Supreme Court decision recognized that there is no inherent right to abortion that flows from a commitment to liberty or autonomy, in part because “abortion is fundamentally different, as both Roe and Casey acknowledged, because it destroys what those decisions called ‘fetal life’ and what the law now before… Read More Whole Life Responses to the Overturning of Roe

Catholic Leader Stephen Schneck Appointed to United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

via the White House: United States Commission on International Religious Freedom The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom is an independent, bipartisan U.S. federal government commission created by the 1998 International Religious Freedom Act that monitors the universal right to freedom of religion or belief abroad. USCIRF uses international standards to monitor religious freedom… Read More Catholic Leader Stephen Schneck Appointed to United States Commission on International Religious Freedom

Dozens Killed in Pentecost Attack on Nigerian Church

via Reuters: Gunmen attacked a Catholic church in southwest Nigeria during mass on Sunday, killing at least 50 people including women and children, according to a hospital doctor and media reports. The gunmen shot at people outside and inside the church building, killing and injuries worshippers, said Funmilayo Ibukun Odunlami, police spokesperson for Ondo state.… Read More Dozens Killed in Pentecost Attack on Nigerian Church