via NY Times: President Trump will scrap subsidies to health insurance companies that help pay out-of-pocket costs of low-income people, the White House said late Thursday. His plans were disclosed hours after the president ordered potentially sweeping changes in the nation’s insurance system, including sales of cheaper policies with fewer benefits and fewer protections for… Read More Trump’s Latest Attempt to Destroy Obamacare

Via Zenit: We should all feel the great responsibility to properly guard creation and to care for it, protecting it from various forms of degradation. We have the task of preserving and delivering to the future generations the planet which we received as a free gift from the goodness of God. In the face of… Read More Pope Francis: Be Defenders of Life, Guardians of Creation

via CNS: The death penalty, no matter how it is carried out, “is, in itself, contrary to the Gospel,” Pope Francis said. Marking the 25th anniversary of the Catechism of the Catholic Church at the Vatican Oct. 11, Pope Francis said the catechism’s discussion of the death penalty, already formally amended by St. John Paul… Read More Pope Francis Calls for Total Opposition to the Death Penalty

via Kristen Day: Pro-life Democrats oppose abortion because we believe that it constitutes the direct taking of innocent human life. We see it as a violation of human rights, as something that is incompatible with social justice, and as an unjust alternative to delivering social justice to poor and working-class women, men, and families. These… Read More Why Pro-Life Progressives Are Pro-Life

Zac Davis reports on the past, present, and future of the Catholic Church in China in this recent video for America Media: