Kate E. Cavanaugh

3 weeks ago | catholicnewsagency.com | Kate E. Cavanaugh

CNA Staff, Apr 1, 2025 / 15:34 pm Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt this week signed an executive order instructing state officials to ensure Oklahoma’s laws are “the most robust” in the nation at protecting religious freedom, with the governor also criticizing the state attorney general for attempting to block a proposed Catholic charter school there.

Nov 14, 2024 | ourcommunitynow.com | Kate E. Cavanaugh

The Ohio Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that would require students in public K–12 schools to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex rather than their subjective “gender identity.” The 74-page S.B. 104 would “enact the Protect All Students Act regarding single-sex bathroom access in primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education.” The Protect All Students Act would require K–12 schools to designate all bathrooms and locker rooms that are accessible by...

Nov 14, 2024 | catholicnewsagency.com | Kate E. Cavanaugh

CNA Staff, Nov 14, 2024 / 14:40 pm The Ohio Legislature approved a bill on Wednesday that would require students in public K–12 schools to use bathrooms that correspond to their sex rather than their subjective “gender identity.” The 74-page S.B. 104 would “enact the Protect All Students Act regarding single-sex bathroom access in primary and secondary schools and institutions of higher education.” The Protect All Students Act would require K–12 schools to designate all bathrooms and locker...

Oct 26, 2023 | catholicworldreport.com | Kate E. Cavanaugh |Catherine Harmon

Pope Francis appoints long-standing parish priest as New Zealand bishop   By Kate Cavanaugh for CNA Pope Francis on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, appointed Father Richard Laurenson as the new bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton in northern New Zealand. / Credit: New Zealand Bishops’ ConferenceDenver, Colo., Oct 25, 2023 / 17:30 pm (CNA). Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed Father Richard Laurenson as the new bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton in northern New Zealand.

Oct 25, 2023 | catholicnewsagency.com | Kate E. Cavanaugh

Denver, Colo., Oct 25, 2023 / 17:30 pm Pope Francis on Wednesday appointed Father Richard Laurenson as the new bishop of the Diocese of Hamilton in northern New Zealand. Bishop-elect Laurenson, 55, is a cat lover and canon lawyer who currently serves a parish on the Papamoa coast, All Saints by the Sea. He was born, raised, and ordained in Hamilton. The diocese has been without a bishop since 2021, when its standing bishop, Bishop Stephen Lowe, was appointed as bishop of Auckland.