Category: Biden

Inflation Reduction Act clause makes it easier for churches to go green

by bcadmin | Nov 11, 2022 | Biden, Inflation Reduction Act, News, Tax benefits, U.S. & World News | 0 |

A provision in the Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law this summer by President Joe Biden, not only increases the size of the tax credit for conversions to renewable energy but also makes nonprofit entities, like parishes, eligible to receive the tax benefits themselves.

Expulsions at the U.S.-Mexico border expulsions on target to break record

by bcadmin | Aug 23, 2022 | Biden, CBP, Harris, News, Remain in Mexico, U.S. & World News, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, U.S.-Mexico border, U.S.-Mexico border expulsions | 0 |

U.S. Customs and Border Protection is set to break a record for border captures when the fiscal year ends at the end of September, as the total number of apprehensions inched closer to the 2 million mark at the end of July.

Amid grief and loss, long-term recovery is on horizon for eastern Kentucky

by bcadmin | Aug 11, 2022 | Biden, Breathitt County, Catholic Charities USA, Deadly flooding, diocese of Lexington, Featured, Hazard, Kentucky, Mother of Good Counsel Church, News, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Mother of Good Counsel Church in Hazard, Kentucky, tolled its bell as Mass ended Aug. 7, while parishioners named a litany of communities devastated by deadly flooding at the end of July.

Asylum-seekers will be allowed in as DHS ends ‘Remain in Mexico’ policy

by bcadmin | Aug 9, 2022 | Alejandro Mayorkas, Asylum seekers, Biden, DHS, Featured, News, Remain in Mexico, Trump, U.S. & World News, U.S. Department of Homeland Security | 0 |

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Aug. 8 that it was set to end, in “a quick, and orderly, manner,” a Trump-era policy that keeps asylum-seekers out of the country while they wait for immigration courts to hear their cases.

Biden administration urged to expand immigration status for Venezuelans

by bcadmin | Jul 15, 2022 | Alejandro Mayorkas, Anna Gallagher, Biden, Biden Administration, CLINIC, Immigration supporters, News, Temporary Protected Status, TPS, U.S. & World News, Venezuelans | 0 |

Immigration supporters expressed a mix of gratitude and disappointment with a Biden administration decision on Temporary Protected Status with regard to Venezuelans.

Pro-life leader says executive order is effort ‘to appease abortion lobby’

by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Abortion lobby, Biden, executive order, Executive order on abortion, News, pro-life movement, U.S. & World News | 0 |

A national pro-life leader said President Joe Biden’s July 8 executive order on abortion “confirmed the White House is working to appease the abortion lobby to the detriment of women and their unborn children.”

Biden offers condolences after killing of former Japanese prime minister

by bcadmin | Jul 8, 2022 | Biden, News, Shinzo Abe, U.S. & World News | 0 |

U.S. President Joe Biden said he was stunned, outraged and saddened over the killing of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who was fatally shot July 8 during a campaign event in the city of Nara, near Kyoto, and offered condolences to his family and country.

Sister Campbell, Trumka, 15 others receive Presidential Medal of Freedom

by bcadmin | Jul 7, 2022 | Biden, Featured, Medal of Freedom, News, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Richard Trumka, Sister Simone Campbell, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Sister Simone Campbell, a longtime advocate for economic justice and health care policy, and late labor leader Richard Trumka received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, in a White House ceremony.

Supreme Court allows Biden to end Trump-era policy on asylum-seekers

by bcadmin | Jul 1, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden, Featured, News, Remain in Mexico, Supreme Court, Trump, U.S. & World News | 0 |

Catholic leaders praised the Supreme Court’s June 30 decision that gave the Biden administration the go-ahead to rescind a Trump-era “Remain in Mexico” immigration policy requiring asylum-seekers at the southwest U.S. border to wait in Mexico for their asylum hearings.

Priests serving migrants in Mexico fret that border restrictions remain

by bcadmin | May 31, 2022 | Biden, Father Brian Strassburger, Father Hotop, Migrants, News, Title 42, U.S. & World News | 0 |

In a homily delivered at a Mass for migrants disappointed that U.S.-imposed border restrictions would remain in place, Jesuit Father Brian Strassburger told them: Title 42 is not God’s plan.

Federal judge orders Title 42 measure must remain in place at border

by bcadmin | May 23, 2022 | Asylum seekers, Biden, CDC, COVID-19 pandemic, Faith-based groups, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service, Migrants, News, Title 42, Trump, U.S. & World News, U.S.-Mexico border | 0 |

The much-anticipated May 23 deadline on Title 42 came and went at the U.S.-Mexico border without any changes allowing migrants in, including asylum-seekers, after a federal judge blocked the government from lifting the health measure instituted during the pandemic.

Bishop praises U.S. stance toward Cuba, lauds family reunification efforts

by bcadmin | May 19, 2022 | Biden, Cuba, Havana, News, Reunification, Reunification efforts, Trump, U.S. & World News, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, USCCB | 0 |

The chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace praised a May 16 statement announcing the lifting of restrictions against Cuba by the Biden administration, particularly those measures that will help family reunification.