The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the measure would leave 22 million more people without insurance.

More than a dozen leaders lined up shoulder-to-shoulder in a unified front to defend a broad array of domestic and international aid programs that, they argued, sustain life.

Just about everyone is sick of the partisan rancor that radiates from Washington.

Senate proposal could “wreak havoc on low-income families and struggling communities, and must not be supported,” the bishops said in a statement released on Thursday evening.  

Just 38 percent of Catholics say they approve of the president.