Trump claims Biden is ‘against God’ (CBS News) President Trump claimed Thursday that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden — a practicing Catholic — is “against God” in a series of false attacks made during a rally-style address to supporters gathered on Cleveland’s airport tarmac. “Take away your guns, take away your Second Amendment. No religion, no anything,” Mr. Trump stated from behind the presidential podium. “Hurt the Bible. Hurt God. He’s against God. He’s against guns. He’s against energy…”
CatholicVote calls on Biden to condemn anti-Catholicism (The Hill) A Catholic voters group called on presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden to condemn the “rising climate of anti-Catholicism” in the country in a Thursday press release. CatholicVote, a conservative faith-based advocacy group, requested that Biden, who is a Catholic, “publicly condemn the disturbing rise in attacks on Catholic symbols, churches, statues, and beliefs…”
In first, pope appoints six women to senior Vatican positions (CBS News) Pope Francis appointed new members to the Vatican’s Council for the Economy on Thursday, and in addition to several cardinals, he also added seven new laypeople to the committee. Six of them are women. The historic move means there are more senior female officials serving the Vatican than ever before…
Congressman writes to DOJ after attacks on Catholic churches (CNA) A Catholic congressman is asking the U.S. Attorney General to respond to a spate of acts of vandalism against churches around the country. In a letter to Attorney General William Barr on Wednesday, Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-Tenn.) urged the Justice Department “to protect religious freedom and combat religious discrimination in the United States…”
American Catholics and Black Lives Matter (The New York Times) Steady in the midst of this supposed conflict between faith and anti-racism efforts is Gloria Purvis. She is a Black Catholic — a designation lonely enough even without intrafaith political strife, as only 3 percent of American Catholics are Black. Ms. Purvis co-hosts a popular Catholic radio show, “Morning Glory”, and a limited television series, “Authentically Free at Last”…
