A spokesman for the archdiocese described the meeting as “personal” in nature and aimed at “renewing a friendship that goes back 15 years or so.”
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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The black women who voted in Alabama deserve more than your gratitude
Black women cannot be expected to continue to save white people from the poor choices they make.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The decline of data under Trump is hurting Puerto Rico
Future historians may have no idea how many people perished in one of the worst storms in U.S. history.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Looking back on a revolutionary year: 1968
Larger-than-life figures, social mayhem, political chaos and a foreign war.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
No relief for D.C. archdiocese seeking to promote Christmas ads on city buses
A federal judge wrote that it is unlikely church officials would be able to prove that their constitutional rights were being violated.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
The Editors: The G.O.P. tax plan is deliberately designed to collapse
For poor and lower middle-class taxpayers, the bill will mean regressive tax hikes after a few years.
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U.S. Bishops: G.O.P. tax plan violates ‘basic principles of justice’
The letter called for a reversal of the bill’s plan to gradually increase taxes on taxpayers in the lowest income brackets while maintaining tax cuts for higher earners, including the most wealthy.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
U.S. bishops urge Trump to reconsider withdrawal from U.N. migration compact
The United States has removed itself from another international dialogue aimed at tackling a complex international challenge—migration.
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Bishops urge Congress to ‘fix fundamental flaws’ in final tax reform bill
“Congress should advance a final tax reform bill only if it meets the key moral considerations outlined in our previous letters,” Bishop Dewane said.
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Archbishop urges federal funding for HIV & AIDS programs
The funding is at peril in the proposed federal budget.