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He argues Biden’s positions on abortion and same-sex marriage should make him ineligible to receive the award.

President Obama held up Merrick as diligent public servant, highlighting his work leading the investigation into the Oklahoma City bombing.

Each was charged with conspiracy and child endangerment. Prosecutors said the three have been given until Friday to surrender.

Spanish Msgr. Lucio Vallejo Balda cited a Whatsapp conversation in which Francesca Chaouqui told him: “I will destroy you in all the newspapers and you know that I can do it.”

Father Elizondo was widely recognized as “the father of U.S. Latino religious thought.”

The coalition has used demonstrations and sometimes consumer boycotts to pressure the five largest fast-food companies—Wendy’s, McDonald’s, Burger King, Subway and Taco Bell—into joining its “fair food program.”

“The very future of the ancient Christian presence in the Middle East is at stake,” Archbishop Kurtz said.

“The fact is that Sunday can be seen as a watershed moment, which frightens the government [and] pressures Congress.”

“A new and disturbing pattern of violations against children’s rights has emerged in the conflict” as youngsters have been killed and maimed, boys under age 15 have been forced into active combat, while still others have been exposed to siege and starvation.

“Our nation seems to have lost a sense of the importance of cultivating friendships as fellow citizens who, being equal, share much in common,” Archbishop Blase Cupich said in a homily on March 12 at Old St. Patrick’s Church.