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Catholic leaders “disappointed” by Trump’s withdrawal from Paris Agreement
- Church in the US, Global Church
- June 1, 2017
Catholic leaders, including the U.S. bishops’ conference and Catholic Relief Services, have issued statements criticizing President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement “represents the important awareness that, faced with issues as complex as climate change, individual and/or national action is not enough; instead it is necessary to implement a responsible collective response truly intended to work together in building our common home,” Pope Francis wrote to the 22nd session of the UN convention on climate change in 2016.
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What Catholics like and dislike in the new spending bill
- Catholic News Agency, Church in the US
- May 3, 2017
On Sunday, an agreement was reached between the House and Senate on an Omnibus bill, a funding bill for the rest of the 2017 fiscal year that could be voted on this week. The bill would increase funding for international famine relief, but would not cut funding for abortion provider Planned Parenthood.
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Around the world, Catholics and politics still mix
- Global Church
- March 16, 2017
The Roman Catholic Church is one of the only entities providing real and meaningful relief and protection in some of the world’s most desperate spots. It is trying to fulfill Pope Francis’s wishes for it to act as a ‘field hospital’ for the masses rather than focusing only on putting people in the pews.
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Catholic officials again strongly criticize Trump’s revised order on refugees
- Church in the US
- March 9, 2017
President Trump’s new executive order states that it is designed “to protect the nation from terrorist activities by foreign nationals admitted to the United States.” Catholic agencies serving refugees see this as mere subterfuge for anti-Muslim discrimination and not based in reality. They oppose this order as they opposed the last one which was blocked by U.S. courts as unconstitutional.
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Lenten Rice Bowl boxes demonstrate that small things can have big impact
- Church in the US
- March 6, 2017
The cardboard Rice Bowl box that Catholic schoolchildren, families, university students and parishioners across the United States have been filling with coins and dollars as a Lenten sacrifice over the past four decades – can have a big impact on the lives of the poor.
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Catholic official applauds suspension of refugee ban
- Interviews
- February 12, 2017
A senior legislative specialist for Catholic Relief Services, the overseas humanitarian arm of the U.S. bishops, says more than 3 million refugees have been resettled in the United States since the 1970s, “so you might say that their record is quite good.”
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