The law also includes a provision for church employees who are laid off from entities that do not participate in a state or a private unemployment insurance program to receive jobless benefits.
Dennis Sadowski - Catholic News Service
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Catholic entities expect to receive aid under emergency relief bill
The bill includes $180 billion in health care spending, designating $100 billion for hospitals and care providers that are the hardest hit in responding to the coronavirus since the first U.S. case of the illness was confirmed Jan. 20.
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Parents share ideas on how to make sudden onset of home schooling work
Longtime home-schoolers told Catholic News Service the current moment gives parents the chance to spend more one-on-one time with their children while teaching skills and creating memories to cherish for a lifetime.
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Reporting system to record abuse complaints against bishops begins
A reporting system accepting sexual misconduct allegations against U.S. bishops and eparchs is in place.
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After ‘Laudato Si’,’ Catholic Climate Project seeks to foster prayerful climate action
The project is poised to utilize the energy of young Catholics, many of whom are deeply concerned about the threats that climate change poses to the planet and, by extension, to human dignity.
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Vatican working to get U.S., Russia to discuss nuclear arms reduction
Archbishop Silvano Tomasi explained that the effort involves “a small group of Russian and American experts.”
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Annual poll finds 70 percent of adults continue to support abortion restrictions
The latest poll also found that 55% of respondents identified as “pro-choice” and 40% as pro-life.
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Puerto Rico reels under successive earthquakes; Catholic church damaged
The latest earthquake sent people scurrying from their homes into the streets from Ponce, the island’s second-largest city
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Louisiana parish uses plane to bless town with 100 gallons of holy water
Members of St. Anne Parish in Cow Island, Louisiana, gave their neighbors a Christmas blessing from the heavens, so to speak.
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Advocates for poor expect new SNAP rule will boost hunger nationwide
Catholic advocates for poor people decried a new federal rule that tightens work requirements which determine eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and is expected to force hundreds of thousands to lose food stamps.