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Few issues strike an American nerve like immigration. Fewer galvanize the U.S. bishops to such a fervent and morally resolute response.
Tuesday’s blue wave—flipping Senate seats in Republican strongholds like Texas, Iowa and South Carolina—returned the Senate and the House of Representatives to the Democrats, who take control in January.
Archbishop Josef Grünwidl succeeded Cardinal Christoph Schönborn in the Archdiocese of Vienna in January.
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The Archbishop of Vienna said the office of general secretary of the Austrian bishops’ conference should be open to baptised laypeople.
Under current statutes the office – currently vacant – must be held by a priest or bishop, but Archbishop Josef Grünwidl said he hoped to see this requirement lifted soon.
“We will change this, but it won’t happen so fast, as this change of statutes has to be approved by Rome,” he told ORF radio’s Ö1Mittagsjounal programme last week.
On Nov. 6, Pope Leo XIV departs for Uruguay, Argentina, and Peru: twelve days, twelve flights, and two helicopter transfers, the longest journey of his pontificate.
It is, before anything else, a homecoming.
Robert Prevost lived in Peru for nearly 20 years, first as an Augustinian missionary and then as the Bishop of Chiclayo, and he took Peruvian citizenship.
(RNS) — Asked Tuesday night (Nov. 3) about state Rep. James Talarico’s victory in the Texas U.S. Senate race, the Rev. Jim Rigby, who has long pastored the Presbyterian church Talarico grew up in, said he was still grappling with the moment.
“It’s just too surreal,” Rigby said, who was watching the returns from home. “It’s going to take a while to completely take that in.”
But Rigby, a staunch liberal who has long advocated for immigrants and LGBTQ+ people, also reflected on what he sees as the broader dynamic of Election Night, which saw Democrats such as Talarico—himself a Presbyterian seminarian—win sweeping victories across the country.
“Can Democrats Reclaim the Christian Moral High Ground?” asked The New York Times Magazine in the runup to the midterms. The article was commenting on the relative abundance of pastors and seminarians running as Democratic candidates: a dozen ran for federal office as Democrats this year, with seven becoming their party’s nominees, while “on the Republican side there are only three.” That’s ten candidates in total, a tiny percentage of the nine hundred or so hopefuls who ran in this year’s midterms. This kind of trend-hunting is common in election years, but the small sample can’t support the idea that this is a watershed moment, and the partisan framing oversimplifies things.
