NICARAGUA BANS JESUITS AND CONFISCATES ALL THEIR ASSETS – US BISHOPS ASK SUPREME COURT TO RATIFY WEAPON BANS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES

When I left on August 12th for Budapest to start a Danube River cruise with my sister, a niece and her husband, I only brought my iPad and my cell phone with me.  I did not post a daily blog, rather I summarized our daily excursions in words, photos and several videos, trying to cover the cities and countries visited: Budapest, Hungary; Bratislava, Slovakia, Vienna, Durnstein, Grein and Salzburg in Austria, Passau and Regensburg in Germany and Prague, the Czech Republic (a post cruise add-on). I also did a video with the ship’s pastry chef on how to make apple strudel!

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NICARAGUA BANS JESUITS AND CONFISCATES ALL THEIR ASSETS

As the crackdown against the Catholic Church in Nicaragua continues, President Daniel Ortega’s regime declares the Jesuit religious order illegal and orders the confiscation of all its assets.

Despite worldwide protests and condemnation, the Sandinista regime’s crackdown against the Catholic Church and opposition continues unabated.

After expelling a community of Jesuit priests from their private residence close to the Central American University (UCA) in Managua, and confiscating the university, on Wednesday, 23 August, Nicaraguan authorities banned the entire Society of Jesus from the country and ordered the confiscation of all its assets, claiming the religious order had failed to comply with tax reporting.

TO CONTINUE: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2023-08/nicaragua-bans-jesuits-and-confiscates-all-their-assets.html

US BISHOPS ASK SUPREME COURT TO RATIFY WEAPON BANS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CASES

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops issues an amicus brief related to the US v. Rahimi case, arguing for upholding a federal law preventing people under domestic restraining orders from carrying firearms.

“The basic principles of social order, reflected in various ways in this Nation’s historic legal traditions and in Catholic Social Teaching, include the government’s role in promoting the common good by protecting human life and dignity.”

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops thus opened an amicus brief related to a pending Supreme Court case, arguing in favor of ratifying a federal law allowing gun bans in domestic violence cases.

TO CONTINUE: https://www.vaticannews.va/en/church/news/2023-08/us-bishops-supreme-court-gun-ban-domestic-violence.html