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As pro-abortion measures won on state ballots and pro-life measures faced defeat, Catholic bishops responded to election results with profound disappointment. They professed resolve to continue to work to defend unborn human life and support pregnant women in need. Some called for prayer and fasting and emphasized that millions of lives are at stake. On Election Day about 56.7% of Michigan voters, more than 2.4 million, voted for Proposal 3 to add a broad right to abortion into the state constitution. It removes a longtime ban on abortion from state law that has not been enforced since 1973. In California, the strong pro-abortion-rights constitutional amendment Proposition 1 was projected to win. As of Thursday evening, it had 65% of the vote, with more than 3.5 million individual votes in favor. In Montana, voters rejected Legislative Referendum 131, which aimed to provide state protections and medical care for babies who are born alive after attempted abortions. As of Thursday, 77% of Vermont voters had backed a measure to create a constitutional right to reproductive autonomy. The Catholic bishops of Kentucky said they were “disappointed” by the rejection of Kentucky’s Amendment 2, which would have declared that there is no right to abortion in the state constitution.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252790/catholic-bishops-reaction-to-abortion-state-ballot-defeats
An arrest has been made after a two-day vandalism spree in October that included an attack on Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s residence at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Juan Velez was arrested by the New York Police Department’s Warrant Squad, police said Wednesday. In that announcement, police said Velez is being charged with 15 incidents of criminal mischief that occurred in Manhattan. Three of those incidents were attacks on churches, one of which was on St. Patrick’s Cathedral, police said. A video of the attack on St. Patrick’s Cathedral that circulated in the media shows a man approach the historic church and throw an object at its glass doors. He then can be seen fleeing the scene. On Nov. 2, police said they identified the attacker as Velez.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/252789/arrest-made-in-vandalism-of-cardinal-dolan-s-residence-at-st-patrick-s-cathedral-in-nyc
Today, the Church celebrates Saint Martin of Tours, who left his post in the Roman army to become a “soldier of Christ” as a monk and later bishop.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/saint/st-martin-of-tours-50