The Editors: Parishes Should Lead Efforts to Understand Opioid Addiction

by The Editors July 28, 2017

“We can’t just keep reviving people.”

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Politics & Society, Your Take

America readers across the U.S. tell us how the opioid crisis is affecting them

by Our readers July 27, 2017

I’m afraid the community may become immune to helping these people. There is always talk of not administering the drugs that will bring these addicts who overdose back to life.”

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News, Politics & Society

Getting a health care bill through Congress fraught with difficulties

by Mark Pattison - Catholic News Service July 27, 2017

It is obvious that passing legislation on health care is going to be a heavy lift in Congress.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. walks from the Senate Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, July 25, 2017, as he steers the Senate toward a crucial vote on the Republican health care bill. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Dispatches, Politics & Society

Bishops on health care bill: Current proposal would harm millions, more cooperation needed

by Michael J. O’Loughlin July 25, 2017

Republican proposals “exclude too many people, including immigrants,” Bishop Frank J. Dewane said in a statement.

A demonstration for affordable health care in New York City on July 13. Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla., chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, called on the Senate July 21 to fix problems with the Affordable Care Act in a more narrow way, rather than repeal it without an adequate replacement. (CNS photo/Andrew Gombert, EPA)

News, Politics & Society

Catholic sisters send Senate a message: Don’t touch Medicaid

by Michael J. O’Loughlin July 25, 2017

The sisters say that they are “most troubled by the cuts it would make to Medicaid by ending the Medicaid expansion and instituting a per capita cap [on spending].”

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News, Politics & Society

Health bill must protect poor, unborn and conscience rights, bishop says

by Julie Asher - Catholic News Service July 21, 2017

Bishop Frank J. Dewane called both the House and Senate health care bills “seriously flawed.”

John Carr, director of the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life at Georgetown University, speaks during a 23-hour prayer vigil June 29 on Capitol Hill in Washington. The vigil focused on preserving Medicaid and was organized after the Senate delayed a vote on the Better Care Reconciliation Act, its health care reform bill. (CNS photo/Jaclyn Lippelmann)

News, Politics & Society

Bishops: Senate health care bill remains unacceptable

by Michael J. O’Loughlin July 13, 2017

The Catholic Health Association, meanwhile, said the revisions to the proposal “reinforces the fact that this bill cannot be fixed.”

Faith, Podcasts

How do we make sure people die a good death?

by The Editors July 13, 2017

Our guest this week is America’s national correspondent, Michael O’Loughlin, whose recent article is: “How Catholic health care is fighting against the campaign for physician-assisted suicide.” “[Physician-assisted suicide] is legal in about a half dozen states, and supporters say they hope to take the campaign to about a dozen other states in the next two […]