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Twelve Polish pilgrims bound for Medjugorje in Bosnia and Herzegovina were killed Saturday when their bus crashed into a ditch, authorities said. Another 31 people were injured, some critically. The accident happened at around 5:40 a.m. local time when the bus veered off the A4 road between Jarek Bisaski and Podvorec, northeast of Zagreb, Croatia. The pilgrims included three priests and six nuns, the BBC reported. The news agency said the trip to Medjugorje, the site of alleged apparitions of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was organized by the Brotherhood of Saint Joseph Catholic group.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251987/13-polish-pilgrims-bound-for-medjugorje-killed-in-bus-crash
Archie Battersbee, the 12-year-old British boy whose family waged an unsuccessful legal fight to stop his doctors from disconnecting him from a ventilator, died Saturday. Archie had been in a coma on a ventilator since April when he was found unconscious with a ligature around his neck. His family argued that Archie needed more time to recover to whatever extent possible. But a High Court judge said the evidence that Battersbee was alive was unconvincing. She ordered that doctors remove the boy from the ventilator, saying the available medical evidence showed that Archie was brain dead as of May 31. An appeals court subsequently upheld the decision. Catholic bioethics experts condemned the decision by the hospital to take Archie off of life support.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251988/archie-battersbee-12-dies-after-being-removed-from-life-support
An unborn baby is now recognized as a dependent who will qualify expectant parents for a $3,000 deduction in Georgia tax rules, under the same law which bans abortion based on a detectible fetal heartbeat. Georgia’s Department of Revenue issued new guidance stating that “any unborn child with a detectable human heartbeat” is eligible for Georgia’s individual income tax dependent exemption. Georgia’s 2019 law banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detectible recognizes the unborn child as a “natural person.” The same law which allows expectant parents to claim their baby as a dependent also requires a father to pay child support for “direct medical and pregnancy-related expenses” for an unborn child.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/251984/unborn-babies-are-tax-exempt-under-georgia-s-heartbeat-based-abortion-law
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Dominic Guzman, who helped the cause of orthodoxy in the medieval Church by founding the Order of Preachers, also known as Dominicans. In 1214, Dominic's extreme physical asceticism caused him to fall into a coma, during which the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared to him and instructed him to promote the prayer of the Rosary.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-dominic-556