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  The Archdiocese of Santa Fe continues to abide by New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham’s Red to Green Framework, the county-by-county framework that permits counties – and the businesses and nonprofit entities within their borders – to operate under less restrictive public health measures when health metrics demonstrating the extent of the virus’ spread and test positivity within those counties are met. As such, Chimayo and the Tome Hill group pilgrimages, as well as special processions in which people bunch together, are canceled for 2021. It is the archdiocese’s hop...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... Give Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., some credit. He’s asking an important question – even if state health officials seem awfully quick to dismiss it. And the senior senator from New Mexico has a growing and compelling body of data on his side. Heinrich and fellow Democrat Chris Van Hollen of Maryland last week wrote to the White House Coronavirus Task Force asking the group to consider changi...

New Mexico abortion, assisted suicide bills called ‘gravely disappointing’ Archbishop John C. Wester of Santa Fe, N.M., speaks during a news conference during the 2015 fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Bob Roller) By Catholic News Service • Posted March 6, 2021 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (CNS) — With abortion and assisted suicide front and center in the New Mexico Legislature, “I wonder, what have we become?” Santa Fe Archbishop John C. Wester said in a March 3 statement. “The repeal of abortion restrictions and the potential legal...

Mar. 4—Remaining days in session: 17 Pandemic relief: Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed a pair of bills into law Wednesday that would provide financial relief from the coronavirus pandemic. Senate Bill 1 would give restaurants, bars and other food and beverage establishments most affected by business restrictions a one-time gross receipts tax holiday for four months, from March to June. The ...

Biden team to review Trump immigration policies prior to reversal Feb 3, 2021 catholic news service Migrants cross the Rio Bravo at Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Feb. 1, 2021, to turn themselves in to request U.S. asylum in El Paso, Texas. Known as Río Bravo del Norte in Mexico, the river is called the Rio Grande in the U.S. (Credit: Jose Luis Gonzalez/Reuters via CNS.) While new U.S. President Joe Biden is still reviewing immigration directives from his predecessor, policy watchers expect a more immigrant-friendly path forward as well as help for some families adversely affected by Trump administr...