RNS Updated Budget — Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Catholics and other Christians should have no qualms about the leading COVID-19 vaccines, say Catholic bishops and […]

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NEWS STORY
RNS-Vaccine-Ethical: COVID vaccines are moral to use, say ethicists, Catholic bishops
(RNS) — Catholics and other Christians should have no qualms about the leading COVID-19 vaccines, say Catholic bishops and evangelical ethicists. They say getting the vaccine is a way to show love to your neighbors and to safeguard public health. The new vaccines were produced with limited ties to fetal tissue derived from abortions. By Bob Smietana. 1200 words. (category: a)

NEWS STORY
RNS-Black-Mobilization: Black church mobilizers get out the vote, plan to hold victors accountable
(RNS) — Across the country, Black church get-out-the-vote mobilizers say their unprecedented coordination with religious and secular groups achieved greater enthusiasm and participation in the 2020 election season. As recounts continued, some of these leaders started looking ahead to closely watched runoff elections and to monitor the pending action of winners of the November races. By Adelle M. Banks. 1,600 words. (category: a)


COMMENTARY
RNS-Salkin-Oped: When visible Jews endanger lives
(RNS) — Whether you are considering attending a Satmar wedding or Thanksgiving with relatives, remember it’s a mitzvah (a meritorious act) to honor one’s family. But, however praiseworthy those meritorious acts are, they are less important than saving lives. By Jeffery Salkin. 880 words. (category: k)

COMMENTARY
RNS-Claiborne-Oped: Yes, Charlie Kirk, we can be thankful for an imperfect America this Thanksgiving
(RNS) — Despite what extremists like Kirk would have us believe, it is possible to be both thankful for America and critical of America. It doesn’t destroy Thanksgiving to acknowledge our country has a little of the good and the bad in it, like all of us. A politician can be right on one thing and wrong on another. We can be both thankful for what America is … and impatiently hopeful for what America could be. By Shane Claiborne. 865 words. (category: k)