The sisters already have spent hours in voter education for the repeat election.
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Bishop Dewane to Congress: Don’t cut programs benefiting the poor to pay for tax cuts
“The tax system should be continually evaluated in terms of its impact on the poor.”
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Middle East church leaders look to U.S., but want voice in own destiny
“We have been abandoned to solve the problems we did not create.”
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Texas bishops criticize ACLU’s support for teen immigrant’s abortion
On Oct. 24, the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a 6-3 vote cleared the way for the pregnant 17-year-old to obtain an abortion.
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Pope Francis names Peru native as auxiliary bishop in Miami Archdiocese
His appointment “reflects the growing presence of Hispanics in the Catholic Church here in the United States.”
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Bishop says President Trump’s immigration proposals do not reflect U.S. tradition
Trump’s new immigration policy proposals “are not reflective of our country’s immigrant past, and they attack the most vulnerable.”
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Variety of Catholic rites in India is not threat to unity, Pope Francis says
Different Catholic rites are, in fact, “a treasure” for the church.
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San Diego bishop celebrates special Mass for parents of L.G.B.T. Catholics
The U.S. bishops’ committee on marriage and family released the letter “Always Our Children” in 1997 as an attempt to encourage parents not to abandon their gay and lesbian children and to assure them of God’s love.
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Pope Francis: Canon law must serve Vatican II vision of the church
The Catholic Church’s Code of Canon Law is an instrument that must serve the church’s pastoral mission of bringing God’s mercy to all and leading them to salvation, Pope Francis said.
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Spanish church leaders seek unity as Catalonia considers independence
Spanish Cardinal: Catalonian call for independence is “an act of sedition, fraud and betrayal.”