Mark Pattison, Author at Crux

Bishop: ‘Fundamental defects’ persist in Senate’s version of health bill

Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, says an acceptable health care system provides access to all, regardless of their means, and at all stages of life. The bishop said such a health care system must protect conscience rights, as well as extend to immigrant families.

The power of TV is feared after ’13 Reasons Why’

“13 Reasons Why” is a Netflix series about a teen’s suicide, and the 13 reasons why she was pushed to suicide. The National Association of School Psychologists made public their worry that teens would binge-watch the show, which is based on a 2007 novel of the same title, and that they’d watch it alone.

Family farmers facing worst financial stretch since the 1980s
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 15, 2017
“The last time economic conditions for farmers were so difficult, churches in rural communities were absolutely critical to connecting troubled farmers to emergency services. Unfortunately, the current farm economy outlook prompts us to ask you for that support again,” says a letter composed by the National Farmers Union and sent to religious leaders in farm country.
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Bishops among first signatories to pledge to end to death penalty
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- May 11, 2017
U.S. Catholic bishops were among the first to sign the National Catholic Pledge to End the Death Penalty insisting that Christians and all people of good faith should stand against the death penalty and advocate for more humane conditions in prison.
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Historians assess the promise and paradox of JFK at his centenary
- Catholic News Service, Church in the US
- April 30, 2017
Presidential historian, Patrick Maney, said Kennedy became the first “celebrity president,” being the son of a millionaire and being a World War II hero with his rescue of his Navy crewmen of the stricken PT 109, not to mention his quick ascendancy in Congress and his marriage to socialite Jacqueline Bouvier.
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