It is obvious that passing legislation on health care is going to be a heavy lift in Congress.
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Can the U.N.’s sustainable development goals survive Trump’s foreign aid cuts?
The impact of the Trump foreign aid reductions, if enacted, “would be swift, devastating, and felt for years to come, imperiling millions of lives and the course of global development, stability, and partnership.”
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Bishops on health care bill: Current proposal would harm millions, more cooperation needed
Republican proposals “exclude too many people, including immigrants,” Bishop Frank J. Dewane said in a statement.
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Catholic sisters send Senate a message: Don’t touch Medicaid
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].”
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
What my Catholic son has learned from the Boy Scouts—and what President Trump misses
When I heard President Trump’s address to the Boy Scout Jamboree last night, I was appalled.
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After protests over Satanic memorial, city nixes all religious symbols
Two days after hundreds of people—many of them Catholic—descended on Belle Plaine to protest the installation of a Satanic memorial in the city’s veterans park, the City Council voted unanimously to nix all religious symbols there.
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Bishops disappointed in Texas official seeking to end immigration policy
Texas bishops say they are “disappointed” by Attorney General Ken Paxton’s demand that the administration terminate DACA.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I pardoned a convict who killed again. Here’s why I still believe in mercy.
Having so often petitioned a gracious God for the blessing of mercy, how could I deny it to others?
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Bishop Dewane: House budget blueprint puts poor in ‘real jeopardy’
“A nation’s budget is a moral document,” said Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Fla.
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Health bill must protect poor, unborn and conscience rights, bishop says
Bishop Frank J. Dewane called both the House and Senate health care bills “seriously flawed.”