Decrease military spending and help the poor, said the U.S. bishops in a May 19 letter addressed to Congress, before lawmakers prepare to work on the federal budget for the upcoming 2018 fiscal year.
Rhina Guidos - Catholic News Service
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Trump’s new travel ban is before the court. Here’s what you need to know.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments for and against a revised version of Trump’s executive order on immigration.
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Website details the life of Father Stanley Rother, who will soon be beatified
The Archdiocese of Oklahoma City has opened a website detailing the life, as well as steps toward sainthood, of Father Stanley Rother.
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Why more than 4,000 religious leaders are writing President Trump and Congress
A group of more than 4,000 religious sisters and clergy, including priests, brothers and deacons, sent a letter to every U.S. senator, member of Congress and President Donald Trump.
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Georgetown will rename buildings to honor a slave and black teacher as university grapples with its dark history
Mulledy Hall at Georgetown will be renamed after Isaac Hawkins, the first enslaved person listed in the sale documents.
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How the American Catholic Church plans to engage the growing Latino community
The church hopes to produce more involvement in the church of its second largest and fastest growing community.
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Sec. of State Tillerson meets with Bishop Cantu to discuss immigration, the Middle East and Africa
Bishop Cantu said the meeting was to let Tillerson know “that our only motive is to help build the common good, that we don’t have ulterior motives.”
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Martyred Oklahoma priest’s beatification scheduled for September
Father Stanley Rother, a North American priest who worked in Guatemala and was brutally murdered there in 1981, will be beatified on Sept. 23 in Oklahoma.
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How the U.S. bishops are speaking out and standing up for immigrants
Catholic Church leaders in the U.S. spent the week of March 6-10 trying to allay fears and urging compassion.
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El Salvador holds hope for its saint in waiting, Jesuit Father Rutilio Grande
In El Salvador, there is a yearning that the intercession of Blessed Oscar Romero will help the beatification cause of his martyred Jesuit friend, Father Rutilio Grande.