Tag: Texas
Texas Supreme Court overrules order allowing pregnant mother to obtain an...
The Texas Supreme Court on Dec. 11 overruled a district judge's order allowing a pregnant mother to obtain an abortion under an exemption to...
Federal judge orders removal of controversial Texas floating barriers; says permission...
A federal judge ordered Texas to remove controversial floating barriers in the Rio Grande and prohibited the state from adding or reinstalling additional buoys...
Justice Department sues Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over inhumane and ‘unlawfully...
WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department on July 24 sued Texas Gov. Greg Abbott over a floating barrier recently installed on the Rio Grande, part...
Texas ‘stepped over a line into the inhumane’ in denying migrants...
Catholic migrant advocates condemned a report alleging inhumane treatment of migrants seeking to cross the border into Texas, including an allegation that the state...
Supreme Court considers DNA evidence that could clear Texas death row...
WASHINGTON-- In oral arguments Oct. 11, the Supreme Court considered the case of Texas inmate Rodney Reed, who has been on death row for...
After Uvalde school shooting, several U.S. bishops urge gun control, call...
WASHINGTON -- Several U.S. bishops spoke out against the easy accessibility to guns in the country following a May 24 rampage that left at...
Two Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami hope to...
MIAMI — Two senior Haitian American priests from the Archdiocese of Miami planned to travel to Texas Sept. 24 to meet and pray with...
Law in Texas restricting abortions after six weeks survives test in...
WASHINGTON — In a late-night decision Sept. 1, the Supreme Court ruled against blocking a Texas law banning abortions at six weeks of pregnancy.
The...
Biden administration sues Texas over Gov. Greg Abbott’s order to halt...
The Biden administration filed a lawsuit July 30 against the state of Texas, trying to stop enforcement of an order aimed at migrants that...
Many Texas Catholic parishes will continue face mask protocols, capacity limits
WASHINGTON -- Many Catholic parishes in Texas will continue to ask parishioners to wear face masks and will limit capacity for Masses even though...