2021-12-02 - EWTN News Nightly | Thursday, December 2, 2021

On "EWTN News Nightly" tonight: President Joe Biden unveiled his administration's strategy designed to protect more people from contracting COVID-19 in the coming winter months. The Omicron variant of COVID-19 has already been detected in California and Minnesota. Washington Editor at the Spectator, Amber Athey, joins to share her thoughts on President Biden's plan to tackle the new variant. Meanwhile, as the justices of the nation's highest court decide the fate of the Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are speaking out. Pro-life legislatures say they are confident the justices will return abortion laws to state control, however Democrats claim it's a violation of the constitution. Senior Counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, Erin Hawley, joins to share her take on how things went yesterday at the Supreme Court during oral arguments for the case. Finally this evening, it was 61 years ago today that Pope John XXIII met with Geoffrey Francis Fisher, Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. It was the first face-to-face meeting between a Pope and the Primate of the Anglican Communion, in 400 years. Archbishop Ian Ernest, Director of the Anglican Centre in Rome and Personal Representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Holy See, joins to tell us more about this meeting. Don't miss out on the latest news and analysis from a Catholic perspective. Get EWTN News Nightly delivered to your email: https://ewtn.com/enn