USCCB to GOP Leaders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement, Pursue Universal Coverage

Bishop Frank Dewane, chairman of the USCCB committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development sent a letter to GOP Congressional leadership: A repeal of key provisions of the Affordable Care Act ought not be undertaken without the concurrent passage of a replacement plan that ensures access to adequate healthcare for the millions of people who… Read More USCCB to GOP Leaders: Don’t Repeal Obamacare Without Replacement, Pursue Universal Coverage

What the Politics of Abortion Will Look Like in 2017

Millennial writer Elizabeth Stoker Bruenig has a new column at America: It appears likely that pro-life activists will spend the next few years waging a legal war against abortion, while pro-choice activists mount a renewed culture war in an attempt to undercut the energy behind those efforts. With few pro-life voices or think tanks producing… Read More What the Politics of Abortion Will Look Like in 2017

Quote of the Day

US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power on Russian aggression: “Having defeated the forces of fascism and communism, we now confront the forces of authoritarianism and nihilism.”

Around the Web

Check out these recent articles from around the web: Grace Enough by Brendan Busse: “At their core, the Spiritual Exercises are about the personification of love, not the possibility of it. The possibility of love, or its impossibility, paralyzes us. But the personification of love, the vulnerable, wounded, beaten love that I saw in the… Read More Around the Web

Pope Francis: Protect and Defend Migrant Children

via Vatican Radio: “It is necessary to take every possible measure to ensure protection and defense to migrant children,” Pope Francis said, “as well as their integration,” into host societies. “These, our brothers and sisters, especially if unaccompanied, are exposed to many dangers,” the Pope said – dangers that include being taken and sold into… Read More Pope Francis: Protect and Defend Migrant Children

Cardinal Cupich: It’s Immigrants Who Have Made America Great

Cardinal Blase Cupich has a new article at the Chicago Tribune: Like all Americans, DACA enrollees want to contribute to our society. They strive as much as any American to be teachers, doctors, lawyers, firefighters, police officers, architects, computer scientists, engineers, members of the armed forces — and, yes, elected officials. But most of all… Read More Cardinal Cupich: It’s Immigrants Who Have Made America Great

Quote of the Day

Bishop Robert McElroy: “The Church must work in the coming months with unions, workers, the elderly, and the poor to counter the growing imperialism of market mechanisms within American public life.”