Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, World News
Catholic Relief Services said May 21 that most of its projects under a federal international food aid program were terminated, leaving hundreds of thousands of children more vulnerable to hunger.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, Feature, News, World News
Hundreds of Catholic humanitarian workers are rallying to prevent further — and more permanent — reductions in U.S. federal funding for international aid, which has been slashed under the Trump administration as part of its “America First” policy.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
The confirmation of Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, was blocked May 13 amid a hold by a Senate Democrat on State Department nominees in protest of the Trump administration’s closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Immigration and Migration, News, World News
As President Donald Trump reached the 100th day of his second term April 29, polls showed decreases in his approval ratings on job performance and key issues, including among Catholics overall.
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Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, DOGE cuts, News, World News
Debates over a plan to reorganize the State Department should seek to improve American “efforts in the world at diplomacy and global citizenship,” and should prioritize human rights and humanitarian efforts, a leading foreign policy expert told OSV News.
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OSV News
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A prominent Catholic humanitarian agency in the Middle East has expressed concern over sudden cuts to U.S. financial assistance affecting its ministries aiding the displaced, refugees and the impoverished.
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Filed Under: DOGE cuts, News, Vatican, World News
Brian Burch, President Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See, defended the Trump administration’s cuts to foreign aid at a Senate hearing April 8 on his nomination.
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OSV News
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As the Trump administration moved to formally dissolve the U.S. Agency for International Development, Catholic Relief Services, the overseas charitable arm of the Catholic Church in the U.S., has advocated for U.S. foreign aid to continue on a new path shaped by Catholic principles.
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Stock markets around the world and in the U.S. dropped in the days after President Donald Trump imposed a sweeping “reciprocal tariff” policy starting with a 10 percent baseline tariff on almost every country in the world.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Catholic Social Teaching, Commentary, DOGE cuts
We as Catholics are asked to assess how Christian or moral an administration is not by its members or its rhetoric, but by its actions.
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A special Mass for federal workers and civil servants celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington offered a message of solidarity and hope amid ongoing employment uncertainties.
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OSV News
Filed Under: DOGE cuts, Feature, News, Schools, World News
Several diocesan overseers of federally funded school meal programs told OSV News that Trump administration changes stand to leave some children’s plates empty, while potentially making surviving versions of the programs too burdensome to operate.
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