Category: Minnesota Catholic Conference

What do we do after the election?

by bcadmin | Nov 10, 2022 | Adoration at the Capitol, Catholic Advocacy Network, Catholics at the Capitol, election, Inside the Capitol, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News | 0 |

Now that the election is over, many people are asking, “Now what?”

Know the candidates before voting Nov. 8

by bcadmin | Nov 4, 2022 | Catholic vote, election, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Practicing Catholic, Vote | 0 |

Why should Minnesota Catholics vote Nov. 8? “Because our elected officials make decisions that impact our lives and impact the common good,” said Jason Adkins, executive director and general counsel for the Minnesota Catholic Conference.

As elections near, Catholics called to practice faithful citizenship

by bcadmin | Oct 21, 2022 | Elections, Faithful Citizenship, legislators, MCC, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Practicing Catholic, Vote | 0 |

American Catholics have a dual heritage, said Ryan Hamilton, government relations associate for the Minnesota Catholic Conference, the public policy voice of the state’s Catholic bishops.

Whom should I vote for?

by bcadmin | Oct 7, 2022 | Candidate scoresheets, Faithful Citizenship, Inside the Capitol, MCC, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Prenatal justice, Whom should I vote for | 0 |

We are often asked — by both laity and priests — why the Minnesota Catholic Conference does not produce voter guides or candidate scoresheets that identify candidates and votes they took on specific bills or lay out their positions on issues. Understandably so, the frequency of this query tends to grow in the weeks leading up to a big election.

U.S. Supreme Court rulings open door to public funds for private schools; challenges remain

by bcadmin | Aug 22, 2022 | Carson v. Makin, Jason Adkins, Local News, MCC, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Picks, Public funds for private schools, U.S. Supreme Court | 0 |

At least three decades of effort in Minnesota to broaden school choice to include religious and other private schools received a boost from a June U.S. Supreme Court decision, Carson v. Makin, when the high court clearly determined: “A state need not subsidize private education but once a state decides to do so, it cannot disqualify some private schools solely because they are religious.”

Work to make abortion ‘unthinkable in our state’

by bcadmin | Jul 22, 2022 | Maggee Becker, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Practicing Catholic, Pro-life advocacy | 0 |

As policy associate at Minnesota Catholic Conference, part of Maggee Becker’s role is pro-life advocacy — lobbying, building relationships and partnerships with people in the pro-life movement and like-minded organizations.

Catholic Spirit wins 19 Catholic media awards for 2021 work

by bcadmin | Jul 12, 2022 | Catholic Media Association, Featured, Local News, Minnesota Catholic Conference, National media awards, News, Office of Communications | 0 |

Office of Communications, Minnesota Catholic Conference each take home four awards

White Bear Lake parents: High-potency marijuana, mental health challenges lead to son’s suicide

by bcadmin | Jun 28, 2022 | Cannabis-induced psychosis, Featured, Heather Bacchus, Local News, Marijuana, Mental health challenges, Minnesota Catholic Conference, Minnesotans Against Marijuana, News, Randy Bacchus, Randy Michael Bacchus, Ryan Hamilton, St. Mary of the Lake, suicide, White Bear Lake | 0 |

Heather and Randy Bacchus have been grieving since their 21-year-old son, Randy Michael Bacchus III, took his own life one year ago in Colorado while suffering from cannabis-induced psychosis.

Special legislative session on school safety? MN Catholic Conference says do it

by bcadmin | May 25, 2022 | Aim Higher Foundation, Catholic Community Foundation of Minnesota, Catholic Schools Center for Excellence, Jason Adkins, Legislature, Local News, Minnesota Catholic Conference, Minnesota Legislature, News, Nonpublic Education Partners, Picks, Safe schools, School safety, school shooting, Walz | 0 |

“There will not be #mnleg alignment on common-sense gun regulation, but this is something we can do immediately (to) protect our students. Gov. Walz and Sen. Miller have communicated to us their support in principle for this bill, and it is time to get it done,” MCC continued in its Twitter thread.

Bishops meet with state leaders to advocate for families, the vulnerable

by bcadmin | Apr 1, 2022 | Addiction, Inside the Capitol, Jeremy Miller, Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, MCC, Melissa Hortman, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Peggy Flanagan, Tim Walz | 0 |

Each spring, the bishops from Minnesota’s six dioceses who comprise the Minnesota Catholic Conference convene in St. Paul to meet with the governor and key state legislators.

Schools and parents’ roles

by bcadmin | Mar 23, 2022 | Commentary, Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Parents Bill of Rights, public education, Republican Caucus | 0 |

Across the United States, heated debates are occurring within school board meetings and state legislative hearings about the respective roles of parents and teachers in public education. Many parents are becoming increasingly concerned that their rights are being subsumed by schools and bureaucrats who have grown comfortable using schools as ideological platforms to correct the allegedly unenlightened views that are instilled in children by their parents.

Supporting women and working families

by bcadmin | Feb 18, 2022 | Commentary, Human Rights Act, identity politics, Minnesota Catholic Conference, News, Paid Caregiver Leave, paid family leave | 0 |

Minnesota Catholic Conference staff are monitoring a flurry of bills including paid family leave and a constitutional amendment that would empower judges to create new modes of discrimination based on the ambiguous concept of gender.