The recent shutdown of the federal government is almost exclusively the focus of all public policy debate at the expense of other important issues that are not explicitly related to the passage of a budget. As the end of this legislative session nears, Dr. Stephen Schneck, Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Catholic… Read More We Still Need Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Immigration reform is heating up at Catholic colleges across the United States this fall. This comes after a summer where 100 Catholic university presidents sent a letter to Catholic Speaker of the House John Boehner urging him to pass immigration reform and where it was announced that Notre Dame and other American Catholic universities would begin… Read More Catholic universities pushing hard for immigration reform
Check out these recent articles from around the web: A Challenge for Christians to Cooperate by Ambassador Thomas Melady, former U.S. ambassador to the Holy See: “Our Catholic hierarchy needs to seize this opportunity and make a stand. We as a Church need to invite the leadership of the Christian Orthodox and Protestant Churches to… Read More Around the Web (Part 1)
Since Philadelphia abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder yesterday afternoon, I’ve been reading and reflecting on the news. There’s no way to make sense of human life taken in such a horrific way, but here are five thoughts that are resonating in my heart. 1) The juxtaposition of Mother’s… Read More Five Reflections After the Conviction of Doctor Kermit Gosnell
For most of her life, Karla did not know that she was an undocumented resident of the United States of America. She grew up in a densely populated neighborhood in South Philadelphia. She went to high school and got a job as a waitress in her teenage years. Her parents worked hard, sent money to… Read More Karla’s Story
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