After President Trump told House Republicans to be “flexible” on the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits public funding of elective abortions, in negotiations on health care subsidies, a key national pro-life group argued the policy should be “a minimum standard in the Republican Party.”
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Trump says he is open to meeting Pope Leo in new interview
Pope Leo has been critical of the Trump administration’s immigration policy, particularly its treatment of migrants, calling it “inhuman.”
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Trump’s border czar calls bishops ‘wrong’ on immigration: ‘Spend time fixing the Catholic Church’
“I’m saying it not only as a border czar, but I’m also saying this as a Catholic, I think they need to spend time fixing the Catholic Church,” Tom Homan said after the bishops issued a rare group statement on immigration.
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Bishop Seitz previews new plan for U.S. bishops to support immigrants: ‘Statements alone are not enough’
“As pastors devoted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we know statements alone are not enough,” Bishop Seitz told his brother bishops in Baltimore.
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Former House speaker Nancy Pelosi announces she will not seek reelection
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic and the first woman elected to that role, announced Nov. 6 she will not seek re-election to Congress in 2026.
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Dick Cheney dies at 84; his power, influence seen as ‘unmatched’ in history of vice presidency
Robert Schmuhl, professor emeritus of American studies at the University of Notre Dame, said that “during George W. Bush’s first term as president, Dick Cheney had influence and power unmatched in the history of the vice presidency.”
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Federal judge strikes Biden-era rule including gender identity in sex discrimination prohibition
Attorney General Lynn Fitch argued in an Oct. 23 statement, “The Biden administration attempted to import its radical theories on gender identity into ObamaCare, forcing healthcare providers to perform surgeries or prescribe drugs even if it violated their best medical judgment.”
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U.S. Army says religious support contracts to be ‘reexamined’ after Archbishop Broglio objects to their cancellation
Archbishop Timothy Broglio said the cancellation of all religious support contracts for Army chapels, “including those for religious educators, administrators, and musicians,” placed on Catholics “an insurmountable restriction on the free exercise of religion.”
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Chicago archdiocese’s plan to award Senator Durbin for immigration work meets pushback over abortion
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., in whose diocese Senator Dick Durbin resides, said he was “shocked” by the announcement due to Durbin’s public position on abortion.
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Charlie Kirk’s widow says she forgives husband’s alleged killer at memorial attended by Trump, Vance
“The answer to hate is not hate,” Erika Kirk said. “The answer, we know from the Gospel, is love. It’s always love.”