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Trump courts Catholic voters at National Catholic Prayer Breakfast [[link removed]]
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As President Donald Trump's campaign seeks to shore up declining Catholic support
ahead of the November election, the president appeared at the conservative-run National
Catholic Prayer Breakfast yesterday, where he announced he was signing an executive
order to protect all infants born alive.
While Trump did not offer specifics on the order, he said it would ensure that medical
care will be provided to all infants regardless of their circumstances.
Attorney General William Barr received the Christifideles Laici Award for service
to the church, and in his 10-minute speech, warned that "traditional morality has
eroded, and secularists have often succeeded," first in the realm of education,
and which he said has spread to a number of other institutions.
The decision to honor Barr, who in July 2019 announced that the federal government
would resume federal executions after a 17-year hiatus, has led to a chorus of outcries
from Catholic groups across the country.
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More background:

* The U.S. bishops conference issued an unusually blunt statement [[link removed]]
against federal executions scheduled for this week, referring to both President
Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr by name.
* Read more about Attorney General William Barr [[link removed]],
a culture warrior Catholic and the nation's top lawyer.
* Here are four Catholic-led groups that are working to reelect President Donald
Trump [[link removed]].
* The National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is so clearly a political event, writes
Fr. Peter Daly [[link removed]].
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Novice's death in India puts spotlight on tragedies over three decades [[link removed]]
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The May 7 death of Divya P. John, a 21-year-old novice with the Basilian Sisters
near Thiruvalla, India, was listed as a probable suicide. It is the latest in nearly
20 others since 1987 involving novices and sisters serving in Kerala state.
The most notable was the murder of Sister Abhaya, whose body was found in 1992 at
the bottom of her convent's well in Kottayam. Originally dismissed as a suicide,
that case took a turn in 2008 after a criminal investigation deemed her death was
a murder. Now, almost three decades after Abhaya's death, a priest and nun charged
with her murder are undergoing a trial that only began in August 2019.
Catholic groups have recently asked church authorities to take steps to dispel a
growing mistrust in society regarding religious life and the deaths of John and
other sisters [[link removed]].
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More headlines
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* Prominent Catholic women across the globe are continuing to raise objections [[link removed]]
to the title of Pope Francis' forthcoming new encyclical, "Fratelli tutti," which
uses the Italian masculine plural to address the world's population.
* Cycling with Sisters, planned as a series of bike rides to draw attention to the
social justice work of Catholic women religious, had to be adjusted for COVID-19.
GSR national correspondent Dan Stockman participated [[link removed]].
* A recent Zoom panel sponsored by the Hank Center for the Catholic Intellectual
Heritage at Loyola University in Chicago on the 2020 presidential election, discussed
abortion and the pandemic as two key issues [[link removed]].
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Final thoughts
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We are gathering all of our 2020 election coverage in one place for our readers
[[link removed]].
In one recent commentary, former Ursuline sister and longtime English professor
Carole Ganim reminds us that both the Judaic and the Christian traditions use the
number 40 [[link removed]]
to signify a lengthy period of time and Election Day is about 40 days away. And
Mark Kennedy Shriver, whose family has had a longtime relationship with Democratic
presidential candidate Joe Biden, recalls memories of Biden being a good and decent
leader [[link removed]].
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Until Friday,
Stephanie Yeagle
NCR Production/Online Editor
[email protected] [mailto:[email protected]?subject=NCR%20Today%20newsletter]
Twitter: @ncrSLY [[link removed]]
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