From Montana to Florida and Texas to Maine, homeless shelters opened additional hours and home checks were commonplace as gusty winds carried teeth-chattering Arctic air southward.
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
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With Trump in Washington, U.S. bishops enter policy debates more often in 2017
Hardly a week passed without at least one reaction, statement or commentary, all based on Catholic social teaching.
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U.S. Bishops: G.O.P. tax plan violates ‘basic principles of justice’
The letter called for a reversal of the bill’s plan to gradually increase taxes on taxpayers in the lowest income brackets while maintaining tax cuts for higher earners, including the most wealthy.
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Worsening natural disasters prompt greater awareness of climate change
Responding to the string of extreme weather events has been a challenge for the society in the affected communities and the society overall.
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Federal court halts construction of natural gas pipeline on nuns’ land in Pennsylvania
A federal court order has temporarily stopped construction on a natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania, a section of which is being built on land owned by a religious order and is the focus of protests.
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Advocates decry Homeland Security’s TPS decision for Nicaraguans
Rather than ending TPS advocates say it was time for Congress to develop a legislative plan to allow Nicaraguans, Hondurans and others to remain in the U.S. permanently.
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Protesters arrested for blocking pipeline work through nuns’ property
“We will continue to have a presence here. How can we not? We live here. This is our home.”
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Catholics voice concern over the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle Clean Power Plan
The EPA has decided to roll back an Obama-era regulation to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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40 Catholic institutions plan to divest from fossil fuels
Divestment from fossil fuels is one way to “look at how one applies the teachings” of “Laudato Si’.”
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Catholic agencies prepared to help in Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
WASHINGTON (CNS) — Thousands sought shelter in Puerto Rico, as Hurricane Maria, called a “monster storm” by many, hit the Caribbean island just short of a Category 5 storm Sept. 20, with winds of 155 miles per hour. Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the hurricane had the potential of being the “most catastrophic hurricane […]