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The “midterm convention” held by the Republican Party in Dallas in early September was notable for some important political indicators regarding November’s elections. A number of Republican candidates skipped the two-day rally, especially those locked in tight races who may have wanted to avoid association with President Donald Trump’s low approval ratings. Some attendees tried to focus on Democratic political foibles and to cast their own party as the trustworthy mainstream choice.
The U.S. government will “make sure that people are able to watch” the Dec. 3 execution of Nidal Malik Hasan at Fort Hood, according to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Condemnations of Mr. Hegseth’s plan for a public execution were swift and widespread. Lawmakers from both parties rushed to denounce his plan, and Archbishop Paul S. Coakley, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, described it as “a barbaric promotion of a culture of death.”
Bishop Heiner Wilmer of Münster said he was confident of an answer from Rome regarding the Synodal Conference by the end of 2026 or early next year.
Deutsche Bischofskonferenz / Marko Orlovic
The German Church will continue with the implementation process for the global Synod on Synodality while it awaits approval for its own Synodal Conference, the bishops’ conference confirmed.
During the autumn plenary of the German Bishops’ Conference (DBK), held in Fulda from 28 September to 1 October, discussions covered the global synodal conference and the conference’s plans ahead of the Ecclesial Assembly in Rome in 2028.
“In a world so denuded of signs and symbols of the sacred, the cassock is back,” Joe Hoover, S.J., wrote in our October 2026 issue. The garment’s return in churches (and grocery stores and hardware stores and on the street) has caused quite a stir. “You see a Catholic priest in 2026 walking around in a cassock,” Brother Hoover wrote, “and it would appear to some he is publicly telegraphing to the world: ‘I am boldly Catholic’ [and] ‘I am taking the church back’ from its diminishers and water-downerers.” But this speculation, the author argues, might be too simplistic. Our readers shared their own views on the cassock’s resurgence.
