Speaker Paul Ryan Archives

If it is broke, fix it: Ideas on reshaping U.S. immigration policy

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jul 15, 2018

The U.S. bishops in 2003 published a pastoral letter, “Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope,” which listed principles of reforming U.S. immigration policy. But 15 years later, how do those principles translate into concrete legislative proposals?

Immigration is main topic at National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
Jun 16, 2018

Four political leaders from both parties spoke at the National Hispanic Prayer Breakfast and they each went in their own directions with their speeches.

Passing a farm bill in 2018’s political climate a hard row to hoe

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
May 28, 2018

The 2018 farm bill was defeated on the floor of the House May 18. It could back for a second vote in late June, but Catholic and other rural life advocates see a need for improvements in the measure before then.

California bishops ask for U.S. House vote on bipartisan DACA bill

Catholic News Service, Church in the US
May 20, 2018

Three California bishops have asked House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-California, to allow a debate and a vote in the coming month on long-stymied Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival legislation, popularly known as DACA.

Ryan meets with priest he ousted as House chaplain, then reinstated

Associated Press, Church in the US
May 8, 2018

House Speaker Paul Ryan met Tuesday with the House chaplain he ousted last month, then reinstated after the chaplain complained a Ryan aide told him it might be time to put a non-Catholic in the job.