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A Tennessee law restricting abortions on the basis of sex, race, or prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome is back in effect. But legal challenges against the law continue to play out in court. The 6th U-S Circuit Court of Appeals blocked the law last September. This week, the same court allowed the law to go back into effect. The court last year allowed a similar ban in Ohio to remain in effect.
Catholics in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are praying a novena for a young priest who was murdered in the country this week. The 36-year-old priest was assassinated by armed men while driving to his parish. He had just offered Mass .
The pope has appointed a new archbishop of Glasgow. Bishop William Nolan is a longtime bishop from southwest Scotland. He also leads the Scottish bishops’ commission for justice and peace. The previous archbishop of Glasgow died suddenly last year, two days after his 70th birthday.
Today is the feast of the Franciscan Saint, Joseph of Lenissa.