President Trump is leveraging the failure of the pro-choice movement to acknowledge Americans’ moral qualms about abortion.
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The Mueller Report’s most pressing question: Who will hold Trump accountable?
If begun, impeachment could succeed in the House, but conviction and removal from office would almost certainly fail in the Senate along partisan lines.
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Trump calls Pope Francis to offer condolences over Notre Dame fire
Trump says in a tweet that he offered “condolences from the People of the United States for the horrible and destructive fire.”
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Trump loses ground with white Catholics, doubles support from non-white Catholics
The latest survey, conducted in January, found that 44 percent of white Catholics approve of President Trump’s job performance.
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Trump’s ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy fails to address the root causes of migration
U.S. and Mexican bishops urged “the administration to reverse this policy, which needlessly increases the suffering of the most vulnerable and violates international protocols.”
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Court rules asylum seekers who fail ‘credible fear’ test have a right to appeal
“The historical and practical importance of this ruling cannot be overstated,” according to the deputy director of the A.C.L.U.’s Immigrants’ Rights Project.
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Catholic leaders resist Trump’s ‘national emergency’ plan to fund border wall
To Bishop Mark Seitz the real emergency is humanitarian—a matter of deciding how best to care for the people coming to the border. “That should concern us,” he said. “This is a group of very vulnerable people.”
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Trump defends rights of faith-based adoption agencies at prayer breakfast
President Donald Trump told the National Prayer Breakfast that his administration would defend the right of faith-based adoption agencies to place children in families based on firmly held religious beliefs.
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Top 6 Catholic takeaways from President Trump’s State of the Union address
In his 82-minute address, President Trump devoted much of his time to attacks on illegal immigration, but he also called for a ban on late-term abortion and for family leave legislation.
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Mexico stays neutral in Venezuela crisis, calls for international summit
Mexico’s call for a summit is the latest twist in a crisis that continues to divide the world after Venezuela’s embattled socialist president, Nicolás Maduro, was sworn in for a second term.