Pancake breakfast Oct. 31

A pro-life benefit pancake, egg, sausage breakfast, sponsored by Birthright of Marshall, will be from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 31, in Carlin Hall, Holy Redeemer Church basement, Marshall. Free will offering.

Pope OKs crediting miracle to John Paul I on sainthood path

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday approved the crediting of what was described as the miraculous healing of a child to the intercession of John Paul I, advancing the cause for sainthood for one of his predecessors who died 33 days after being elected pontiff in 1978.

His signing off on the 2011 recovery in Argentina of a child makes possible John Paul I’s beatification, whose date will be later established by Francis.

Cardinal Albino Luciani was elected on Aug. 26, 1978 and was found dead in his bed in his Vatican City apartment on Sept. 28 of that year.

Case against accused Pittsburgh synagogue shooter plods on

PITTSBURGH (AP) — The federal judge in the capital murder case against Robert Bowers in the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue massacre told lawyers Wednesday she wants a list of pretrial motions and plans to reassess the status of the long-delayed case in January.

U.S. District Judge Donetta Ambrose presided over a two-day evidentiary hearing in Pittsburgh this week to determine whether prosecutors will be allowed to use statements at trial that Bowers is believed to have made to police and investigators immediately after the attack.

Ambrose gave the sides more than a month to make arguments in writing after hearing officers, paramedics and investigators recount statements by Bowers that indicate he was motivated by a hatred of Jewish people.