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Catholic leaders find proposed federal budget largely fails the moral test
President Donald Trump's proposed fiscal year 2018 budget sent shivers through social service, education and environmental communities, prompting church leaders and advocates to question the administration's commitment to people in need.
Cristo Rey community says DeVos intrigued by school’s education model
Cristo Rey schools combine work-study and a college prep curriculum for low-income students. The U.S. education secretary visited a Cristo Rey in Indianapolis, where all 46 graduating seniors were accepted into college.
Guidebook helps delegates prepare for Convocation of Catholic Leaders
The 3,000 people attending the upcoming Convocation of Catholic Leaders are being seen as members of diocesan teams who will return home to act on what they see and learn while discussing the church's role in a changing social landscape.
As Trump and the pope meet, peace offerings in person and via Twitter
But away from the cameras, in the public arena of ideas about how the world should work, the two men have clearly been at odds on a long list of subjects such as immigration, the environment, how to fight poverty, using militarization instead of diplomacy, to name a few.
Online format offers resources, formation materials for parishioners
One-size-fits-all faith formation programs don't exist, but a new online platform called FORMED has taken a serious stab at providing a wealth of resources to fit with parishioners' hectic lives.
Student makes prom dreams come true with dress giveaway
People told Ashley Wilson, 18, a Catholic high school senior in Cleveland, that her idea to collect and donate dresses was "a really dumb" idea, but "I gave away 200! So it definitely is something that is needed."
U.S. extends Temporary Protected Status for Haitians for six months
The May 22 decision by the secretary of homeland security affects 58,000 Haitians in the U.S., many of whom were welcomed after an earthquake leveled much of Haiti in 2010.
Iowa Medicaid reimbursements will no longer go to abortion providers
The Iowa Legislature voted to end Medicaid reimbursements to family planning clinics that do abortions, which includes Planned Parenthood. Four Iowa clinics will close. Three closed June 30 and the Bettendorf clinic was the next to close.
Tobin: Being with those in need, distress communicates Christian message
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, was the keynote speaker at DeSales Media's celebration of World Communications Day in Brooklyn May 17.
About 100 students walk out of Pence’s Notre Dame commencement address
The walkout was planned in advance by a student activist coalition, We StaND For, to protest the university's choice of Pence as graduation speaker.