Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Immigration and Migration, News, U.S. Congress, World News
A politically divided Congress has not been able to agree on a comprehensive immigration plan, nor a bill to offer the approximately 760,000 DACA recipients a path to citizenship.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The son of Ruth E. Whitfield, the oldest victim of the racially motivated mass shooting at a Buffalo, New York, grocery store, told a rally in Washington June 11 that the nation needs to “lower” its weapons and “replace the hate.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
Catholic leaders in an online discussion June 8 urged the faithful to look at gun violence as a pro-life issue, address the roots of racist thinking that promotes such violence and press for commonsense gun laws.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The young organizers of Students Demand Action were the first of several groups to arrive in Washington in early June for a week of protests demanding that U.S. lawmakers pass restrictions on high-powered weapons such as the ones that have been used in mass shootings, including at schools.
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Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress
Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori and the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops joined the chorus of leaders calling for “reasonable control measures” after the recent rash of mass shootings in the United States.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
In the wake of recent mass shootings that have devastated local communities and the nation at large, several U.S. bishops, women’s religious orders and Catholic organizations have called for stricter federal gun control measures, while state Catholic conferences have rallied behind local measures attempting to curb the spate of gun violence.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
After the U.S. Senate failed May 11 to advance a “radical” abortion bill, the chairmen of two U.S. bishops’ committees urged Congress “to stop pushing abortion as the solution to needs of women and young girls” and “embrace” public policy initiatives that protect “both mother and child.”
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Supreme Court, U.S. Congress, World News
Under gray skies March 30, a group of faith leaders assembled on the Supreme Court’s steps to show their support for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court and urge the Senate to quickly vote to confirm her.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The chairmen of several U.S. bishops’ committees and the head of March for Life March 11 praised the U.S. senators who voted to pass the government’s omnibus bill with the Hyde Amendment and other pro-life provisions included in it.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
Just a day after a U.S. House commission’s hearing on holding Russian President Vladimir Putin accountable for “war crimes and aggression against Ukraine,” his military forces carried out an airstrike on a maternity hospital in Mariupol in the East European country.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Catholic Health Association officials said the organization supports provisions in the President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act that would expand health care access and affordability as the country recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress
Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop’s Committee on Pro-life Activities, is urging the U.S. Congress to pass a conscience protection act that would protect health care workers who refuse to assist with abortion.
