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by bcadmin | Oct 13, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Death row, Executions, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
In oral arguments Oct. 11, the Supreme Court considered the case of Texas inmate Rodney Reed, who has been on death row for more than 25 years and has gained the attention of Catholic leaders and celebrities for his claims of innocence.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Sister Helen Prejean, Tennessee, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
On April 21, Texas executed a 78-year-old inmate, Carl Buntion, by lethal injection.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, wildfires | 0 |
The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops said they were grateful for the first responders fighting wildfires raging across the state and offered prayers for them and all who have been affected by the natural disaster.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2022 | capital punishment, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
Texas Catholic bishops is urging state leaders March 22 to commute the death sentence of Melissa Lucio and conduct a meaningful review of her case.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 14, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Roe v. Wade, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, the pro-life movement | 0 |
In a March 11 ruling, the Texas Supreme Court ended a challenge by abortion clinics to a state law that bans most abortions in Texas.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 2, 2022 | Bishop Daniel Flores, capital punishment, Catholic Mobilizing Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Roe v. Wade, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
The Supreme Court Jan. 20 rejected a request from Texas abortion providers to immediately send their challenge of the state’s abortion law to a federal District Court, where a judge had previously blocked the law.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 18, 2022 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Roe v. Wade, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, Texas Right to Life | 0 |
A federal appeals court sent a challenge to the Texas abortion law back to the state’s Supreme Court Jan. 17.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2021 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
Less than a week after the Supreme Court ruled that the Texas abortion law could stay in place, the court sent back a lawsuit against the state’s abortion law to a federal appeals court.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 8, 2021 | Biden Administration, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, health care, Medicaid, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference | 0 |
The Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops has asked the Biden administration to end a stalemate between state officials and the federal agency overseeing Medicaid payments that is threatening health care for low-income Texans.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 10, 2021 | Catholic News Service, Chaplains, Church in the US, Death penalty, Executions, News, Religious Freedom, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, U.S. Supreme Court, USCCB | 0 |
The Supreme Court’s consideration of spiritual advisers praying aloud with death-row inmates or placing hands on them in prayer during executions faced an uphill battle Nov. 9.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Oct 23, 2021 | Abortion, Abortion law, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Governor Greg Abbott, News, Texas, Texas Catholic Conference, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
The Supreme Court said Oct. 22 that the Texas abortion law banning abortions after six weeks of pregnancy will remain in effect but that the court will give an expedited review of the law Nov. 1.
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