Catholic Review
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OSV News
Filed Under: Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Legislation to protect access to contraception nationwide failed to advance in the U.S. Senate on June 5 in an expected outcome.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The Senate June 4 held a hearing on the impact of post-Dobbs abortion restrictions, with lawmakers alternately criticizing or defending them with respect to women’s health care concerns.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Social Justice, U.S. Congress, World News
Lawmakers on the House and Senate agriculture committees released differing frameworks for the 2024 farm bill, with one version praised by a Catholic aid group.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Father Greg Boyle, a Jesuit priest who is the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, and former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi were among 19 Americans awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, on May 3.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, Vatican, World News
U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat from Georgia, said he and Pope Francis prayed together when they met at the Vatican April 20.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, News, U.S. Congress, World News
Catholics working to address the nation’s fentanyl problem told OSV News a new congressional report naming China — and blaming its government — as the key source of the drug is important but old news, and that healing rising rates of addiction ultimately demands divine assistance.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
Ukrainian Catholics in the U.S. are breathing a sigh of relief and prayers of gratitude, after a bill for aid to Ukraine cleared the House of Representatives following months of delay, political infighting and even openly anti-Ukrainian sentiment among some lawmakers.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Conflict in the Middle East, Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
A bipartisan coalition the U.S. House of Representatives, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., voted April 20 to approve a $95 billion package providing aid for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan and other U.S. allies in the Indo-Pacific region, over the objections of some far-right lawmakers who indicated they would attempt to remove Johnson from his role over the deal.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
The U.S. government’s global effort to combat HIV/AIDS was granted a one-year extension in the government funding package Congress is expected to approve, ending an impasse over the program’s reauthorization — for now.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
In his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Biden said “this is no ordinary moment” in U.S. history.
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OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, News, U.S. Congress, War in Ukraine, World News
As an emergency bill to replenish dwindling ammunition and supplies for Ukraine’s forces languishes in the U.S. House, Metropolitan Archbishop Borys A. Gudziak of the Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Philadelphia warned that failing to support Ukraine as Russia’s war machine relentlessly presses its attack will have a vast impact on religious freedom in the region as well as on global security.
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OSV News
Filed Under: News, Respect Life, U.S. Congress, World News
In a stunning development for Catholic pro-life activist Lauren Handy, the scheduled destruction of five unborn babies’ corpses she recovered from a Washington abortion clinic in 2022 has been indefinitely delayed with the expectation they will finally be autopsied.
