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Posted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Archdiocesan Catholic Center, Global consulting firm, Local News, News, O'Malley, Organizational improvement initiative, Picks, Project Isaiah, Tim O'Malley |
When Archbishop Bernard Hebda tapped Tim O’Malley to lead an organizational improvement initiative for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis’ central offices, he credited O’Malley’s proven abilities as a strategic thinker and implementer of change.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Enderezando el camino para el Señor, News, Solamente Jesus |
Al comenzar nuestro nuevo año, pensé que sería apropiado no solo agradecerles por su apoyo inspirador a la Iglesia Arquidiocesana durante las desafiantes circunstancias del año pasado, sino también actualizarlos sobre el trabajo que les espera.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | ACC, Archdiocesan Catholic Center, Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis, Consulting process, Global management firm, News, Only Jesus, Project Isaiah |
After consulting process, archdiocese aims to make clear central office’s mission, direction
Read MoreWith the stroke of a pen, U.S. President Joe Biden didn’t just cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. In the eyes of some, he’s cancelled Alberta.
Read MoreWashington D.C., Jan 28, 2021 / 06:50 am (CNA).- Members of Congress announced on Thursday they would be re-introducing a ban on discrimination abortion, or abortion based on a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome.
Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kan.) and S…
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Washington D.C., Jan 28, 2021 / 06:43 am (CNA).- President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning that he will be reversing the Mexico City Policy.
The policy prohibits U.S. funding of foreign NGOs that perform or promote abortions as a method of family planning. The White House announced that Biden would be issuing a Presidential Memorandum later on Thursday that “immediately rescinds the global gag rule, also referred to as the Mexico City Policy.”
The policy, first instituted by President Reagan in 1984, is traditionally rescinded or reinstated by new presidents upon entering office. Republican presidents have enacted the policy, while Democratic presidents have rescinded it.
In 2017, the Trump administration reinstated it and subsequently expanded upon it. While the policy traditionally applied to a limited amount of international family planning funding—ensuring it did not go to groups promoting abortion as a method of family planning—the administration expanded it to include billions of dollars in global health assistance.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) stated on Wednesday evening that the Trump administration’s expanded policy—Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance—was critical to ensuring U.S. taxpayers were not complicit in promoting abortions abroad, especially in countries with pro-life laws.
“Many countries throughout the world have been besieged by aggressive and well-funded campaigns to overturn their pro-life laws and policies,” Smith said. “The Protecting Life in Global Health Assistance Policy was designed to mitigate U.S. taxpayer complicity in global abortion.”
Smith pointed to a new Marist poll showing that more than three-quarters of Americans oppose their tax dollars funding abortions in foreign countries.
“Americans overwhelmingly oppose using U.S. foreign aid to subsidize abortion,” he stated.
In addition, Biden will direct the Department of Health and Human Services to review and consider rescinding another pro-life policy, the Trump administration’s Protect Life Rule.
That policy required recipients of Title X family planning funds to not refer for abortions and not be co-located with abortion clinics. As a result of the rule, Planned Parenthood withdrew from the Title X program in 2019 and forfeited around $60 million per year in grants.
The White House on Thursday said the memorandum to be signed by Biden “reflects the policy of the Biden-Harris Administration to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and rights in the United States, as well as globally.”
Last week, Dr. Anthony Fauci—White House chief medical advisor on COVID-19—promised board members of the World Health Organization that the administration would rescind the Mexico City Policy and uphold “reproductive rights” internationally.
“And it will be our policy to support women’s and girls’ sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights in the United States, as well as globally,” Fauci said. The term “sexual and reproductive health and rights” is commonly used in international diplomacy to refer to issues that include abortion and contraception.
CNA Staff, Jan 28, 2021 / 06:30 am (CNA).- A Vatican cardinal has expressed “astonishment” at a statement by a group of Protestant and Catholic theologians in Germany.
Cardinal Kurt Koch, president of the Pontifical Council for Promo…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Archbishop Eamon Martin, Catholic Church, Church in Ireland, Church in UK and Ireland, Ireland, lead, Magdalene laundries, News, Northern Ireland |
Ireland’s Catholic primate is feels “embarrassed and guilty” about a report on religiously-affiliated Mother and Baby homes in Northern Ireland.
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Editor's Corner, News |
Today’s feast of the great priest and doctor Saint Thomas Aquinas is also, sadly, the 33rd anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1988 striking down of the abortion laws put in place in 1969 under Pierre Elliot Trudeau, making Canada one of the very few notorious places on earth with no laws about abortion, and the[…]
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Read More“Today, the House of Delegates made the tragic decision to expand drastically abortion coverage in Virginia’s health benefits exchange,” the state’s bishops said in their statement. “This legislation is identical to the b…
Read MorePosted by bcadmin | Jan 28, 2021 | Catholic Living, Featured, News, Weekly Headlines |
Sometimes I think that a people more starved for beauty has never walked the earth. And it is a scandal that our Church does not help. We talk, for example, about “the planet,” but not about woods, hedgerows, small streams, sparrows, badgers, rocks, and moors. The poet Wordsworth could sense, in his memories of the […]
28% of Americans (and 35% of US Catholics) surveyed said that the pandemic has made their faith stronger.
Read More“To equate access to abortion, the direct killing of an unborn child, with universal access to needed healthcare is morally incoherent and incompatible with authentic Catholic doctrine,” Bishop Michael Olson said in response to the preside…
Read MoreKütahya, a city in western Turkey, was home to 4,000 Armenians before the 1915 Armenian Genocide. In 1931, only 65 Armenians lived there.
Read More“The Evangelical Fellowship of India (EFI) documented 327 cases of violence against Christians throughout 2020, which involved approximately five deaths, six churches being demolished or burnt, and 26 incidents of social boycott,” said Chr…
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