Through prayer, we are able to talk over challenges and frustrations that are inherent in our health care environment while also understanding that knowing God is an incredible privilege.
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What Trumpcare and Obama’s $400,000 speaking fee have in common
Both political parties are getting further out of touch from the average voters.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
US bishops urge Senate to strike ‘harmful’ aspects of AHCA
U.S. bishops called on the Senate to strip out the harmful provisions of the bill when the chamber takes it up for consideration or essentially to start over on GOP efforts to repeal and replace Obamacare.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Pro-life goals need to be more ambitious than opposing abortion
As necessary as opposition to abortion and funding for it are, they are not sufficient pro-life goals, especially when achieving them eliminates support for other programs that support maternal health.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Alongside Catholic leaders, President Trump signs executive order on religious liberty, health care
One of Trump’s orders instructs the Internal Revenue Service not to enforce a rule that bars churches from engaging in partisan politics.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
A maternity hospital provokes a row over church role in Irish health care
The fact that the government handed ownership of a new $330 million state hospital to a religious order has led to a national debate over the continued involvement of the Catholic Church in Ireland’s health care system.
Posted inIn All Things, Politics & Society
Trump and the U.S. Catholic Church: The First 100 Days
Predictably Mr. Trump has also clashed with the Catholic Church and the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on many of the policies he has promoted during his first 100 days.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Updated: House-passed Trumpcare bill deplored by Catholic Health Association
Catholic healthcare leaders continue to denounce GOP efforts to “reform and repeal” the Affordable Care Act.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Justice Department remains idle on Obamacare’s contraception mandate
A year after the Supreme Court returned their cases to lower courts, those fighting Obamacare’s contraception requirement still do not have a direction.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
For immigrants struggling to get health care, this Pennsylvania parish brings services to them
St. Patrick Parish in Norristown is working to change the healthcare situation with help from local clinicians, volunteers—and Our Lady of Guadalupe.