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This horror has to stop. Spiritual advisers to death row inmates decry recent wave of federal executions CNN 3/10/2021 By Dakin Andone, CNN © Bryan Woolston/Reuters Yusuf Nur talks about his experiences with Dustin Higgs, in Terre Haute, Indiana, on January 15. It wasnt until Yusuf Nur was inside the execution chamber, standing next to a condemned man strapped to a gurney, that he understood why hed been asked to be present. The inmate, Orlando Hall, had asked Nur to be hi...

Washington D.C., Mar 14, 2018 / 03:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The U.S. bishops have voiced their strong support for a bill protecting individuals and institutions from discrimination by the federal government based on their beliefs about marriage, regardless of what those beliefs are. “We welcome and applaud the recent reintroduction of the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA),” wrote Archbishop Joseph Kurtz of Louisville and Bishop James Conley of Lincoln in a March 14 statement. Archbishop Kur...