The pope greeted the children and “exchanged some words of comfort with the parents who are caring for their children in their tiring and painful trials.”
Health Care
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: Children’s health insurance deserves more than life support from Congress
The willingness to use CHIP as a bargaining tactic highlight the misplaced priorities of the current congressional leadership.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What’s the Catholic response to the opioid epidemic? Hope in action.
Hopelessness is one option. But it is not the Christian one.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
How a new Catholic resource is serving those living with H.I.V./AIDS in Britain
In our churches and parishes there can be an enforced invisibility for people living with H.I.V./AIDS. Myths, misunderstanding and prejudice still abound.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pope Francis to lawmakers: Protect all people with health care laws
The comments came as U.S. lawmakers in Washington, D.C., have been debating how to overhaul the nation’s health insurance laws.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Vatican Dispatch
Pope Francis: No to euthanasia, but we should not obstinately resist death
“There is no obligation to have recourse in all circumstances to every possible remedy” to keep a person alive.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Bishops (again) object to G.O.P. tax plan’s effects on the poor
“No tax reform proposal is acceptable that increases taxes for those living in poverty to help pay for benefits for wealthy citizens.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Pro-Life Caucus urges passage of law protecting conscientious objection to abortion
The new legislation has the backing of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Britain’s National Health Service needs (and deserves) saving
Our national health system is seen as a treasure in Britain yet viewed as an alien, dangerous concept to many in the United States.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
U.S. Catholics in healthcare: something must be done
Sixty-six percent of Americans want Trump and Congress to work on legislation to bolster the health insurance marketplaces.