NEWS STORY
RNS-Vatican-Evidence: Vatican judges side with defense teams in trial about financial scandals
(RNS) – Following procedural headaches, Vatican judges presiding over a mega-trial of clergy and employees on Wednesday in connection to a large-scale financial scandal, ordered that all the material be handed over to the defense teams and that part of the data collected during the investigations be withdrawn. By Claire Giangravè. 630 words. (category: i)
NEWS STORY
RNS-Apache-OakFlat: Spiritual convoy heads to California court hearing on Oak Flat Native American sacred site
(RNS) — Members of Apache Stronghold, a nonprofit working to protect the Apache sacred ground in Arizona known as Oak Flat, will travel from the site to San Francisco, where a court will hear an appeal to halt the land from being transferred to the Australian mining company Resolution Copper. By Alejandra Molina. 750 words. (category: a)
COMMENTARY
RNS-Wallis-Oped: To pass infrastructure bills, Democrats need to put their faith in moral language
(RNS) — More than any piece of legislation in our lifetimes, the “human” infrastructure and “physical” infrastructure bills coming up now in Congress have a chance to “bring good news to the poor,” in the words Jesus used in his first sermon in his hometown of Nazareth. By Jim Wallis. 900 words. (category: k)