Julian Bond was a long-time legislator and breaker of barriers.
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Catholics Among Initial Responders to Injured in Tianjin Blast
The Tianjin Diocesan Social Service Center helped line up 60 volunteers to assist the government’s rescue and relief work. Volunteers donated drinking water, clothes and other supplies to hospitals and temporary settlements for evacuees.
Women further victimized by harvesting of fetal parts, says counselor
Sue Harvath, who has counseled post-abortive women, says it shouldn’t matter whether Planned Parenthood is making money from the sale of fetal body parts because even the act of obtaining the body parts is manipulative and flat wrong.
Ideals worth sacrificing for: Pope to challenge U.S. Congress, U.N.
Pope Francis’ speeches to Congress and to the United Nations in late September will be less pastoral than homilies–more about policy.
In Holy Land, church leaders lodge complaint about rabbi’s arson remarks
‘The Catholic community in the Holy Land is fearful and feels in danger.’
Catholic agencies decry administration’s response on detention ruling
Jeanne Atkinson, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, said that the Justice Department’s response “represents a continued defense of the inhumane practice of family detention.”
Pope marks Hiroshima/Nagasaki anniversary by calling for nuclear weapons ban
Seventy years later “this tragic event still gives rise to horror and revulsion.”
In Hiroshima, U.S. bishop says USCCB will push for nuclear disarmament
Bishop Cantu, who serves as chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace, said that as a U.S. citizen, he arrived in Hiroshima with a sense of “sorrow and repentance.”
French, British bishops urge solution to migrant crisis in channel port
French and British Catholic bishops urged their governments to settle a growing refugee crisis around the port of Calais, where highways have been blocked and migrants from Africa and the Middle East have died attempting illegal crossings of the Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel."These men and women c
Aborting unborn babies who have disabilities decried by pro-life groups
Aborting unborn babies who have disabilities decried by pro-life groups
