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by bcadmin | Jun 25, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Catholic social teaching, Church in the US, NETWORK, News, Poor church for the poor, Poverty, Sisters of Mercy | 0 |
Mercy Sisters Joan Serda and Marilyn Graf said they hoped the June 18 Moral March on Washington, organized by the Poor People’s Campaign, would get more people “to understand the plight of the poor in our country.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 8, 2022 | Catholic News Service, Church in the US, NETWORK, News, Obamacare, Poverty, Sister Simone Campbell, Social Justice | 0 |
It was during the late 1960s that Adrian Dominican Sister Carol Coston felt the energy unleashed by the Second Vatican Council in the call from church leaders to engage the world with the richness of Catholic teaching.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 22, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
What had been separate Democratic and Republican coronavirus relief bills became a bipartisan effort thanks to Congress’ Problem Solvers Caucus, according to a lobbyist for Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 21, 2020 | Catholic social justice lobby, Coronavirus relief bills, Featured, NETWORK, News, Problem Solvers Caucus, U.S. & World News | 0 |
What had been separate Democratic and Republican coronavirus relief bills became a bipartisan effort thanks to Congress’ Problem Solvers Caucus, according to a lobbyist for Network, a Catholic social justice lobby.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 31, 2020 | 2020 election, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholics and politics, Church in the US, faith and politics, Faithful Citizenship, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News | 0 |
Steven Millies, a scholar who explores the Catholic Church’s relationship to politics, feels more optimistic today than he has in a long time about young people in this country voting in a national election.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 30, 2020 | Catholic Charities, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, COVID-19 pandemic, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, US House of Representatives, USCCB, USCCB Committee on Catholic Education | 0 |
The Democratic-led House approved the HEROES Act in May. The Republican-led Senate introduced the HEALS Act July 27.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jul 27, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, civil rights, NETWORK, NETWORK Lobby, News, U.S. Congress | 0 |
As Sister Simone Campbell, executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, began reflecting on her fondest memories of the late Congressman John Lewis, she could recall one instance in which his body language showed something different than the soft-spoken, yet passionate man she knew.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 21, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, dreamers, immigrants and refugees, immigration laws, NETWORK, News, Trump administration, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |
On June 18, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling said President Donald Trump could not stop the program with his 2017 executive order. DACA protects about 700,000 young people who qualify for the program from deportation and allows them to work, go to college, get health insurance and obtain a driver’s license.
Read Moreby bcadmin | May 17, 2020 | Catholic Church, Church in the US, Church in UK and Ireland, Columban, Great Britain, lead, Maryknoll, NETWORK, News, trade, United Kingdom | 0 |
Catholic organizations have joined labor unions and environmental advocates in an effort to shape the early negotiations of a major new trade deal between the United Kingdom and the United States.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Apr 22, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, COVID-19, immigrants and refugees, Immigration, NETWORK, News, President Donald Trump, Twitter | 0 |
Though it’s still unclear how an April 20 tweet from U.S. President Donald Trump saying he would “suspend immigration into the United States!” will manifest itself in policy, some blamed him for trying to scapegoat immigrants as a way to divert attention from the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Mar 24, 2020 | Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Church, Catholic Medical Association, Catholic News Service, Catholic Relief Services, Church in the US, Coronavirus, COVID-19, NETWORK, News, Social Justice | 0 |
Several Catholic charitable agencies are among more than 200 nonprofits urging Congress to include $60 billion in aid to help them meet an expected surge in requests for services from unemployed people.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 8, 2020 | Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Catholic Social Ministry Gathering, Church in the US, NETWORK, News, pastoral letter on racism, Racism | 0 |
Catholic groups and organizations are striving to not only acknowledge the sins of the past but also do something to atone for them.
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