Catholic Inauguration Events

A Catholic Evening of Reflection and Prayer: Healing, Accountability, Truth, and Hope January 19, 2021 at 8:00 p.m. Our prayer leaders include: Dr. Nichole Flores - University of Virginia Prof. Thomas Groome - Boston College Sr. Patricia McCann, RSM -...

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Sr. Simone and Democrats praying for healing and unity

Every single vote is sacred By Sr. Simone Campbell Last night I joined Oprah Winfrey and faith leaders from across the country on Zoom for a night of healing ahead of Election Day. For me, it was a sign of...

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Catholics for Biden powers up

In a national conference call rolling out the Biden campaign's outreach to Catholics, speaker after speaker cited Vice President Biden's kindness and Catholic faith as reasons that Catholics would find in him a kindred spirit. A thousand people participated in...

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Maeve & Gideon McKean: two wonderful souls close to our hearts

Kathleen Kennedy Townsend -- chair of the Institute for Human Virology at the University of Maryland, the former lieutenant governor of Maryland, and a board member of Catholic Democrats -- released the following reflection on the tragedy of her 42yo...

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Hanukkah is not hypocrisy, argues Rabbi Michael Lerner

On the eve of Chanukah, Dec. 2nd, the N.Y. Times chose to publish an article entitled "The Hypocrisy of Hanukkah" by Michael David Lukas. It is worth exploring not only because of the way it reveal the shallowness of contemporary...

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Humana Vitae and the coming Supreme Court debate

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae: On the Regulation of Birth, an encyclical signed by Pope Paul VI that re-affirmed the Catholic understanding of married love, its relation to parenthood, and his opposition to most artificial birth...

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Neil Gorsuch is Trump's pick for the Supreme Court

by Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service 1. Gorsuch, 49, is the son of Anne Gorsuch, President Ronald Reagan's administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Like his mother, Neil Gorsuch attended Catholic schools, in his case the Jesuit-run Georgetown Preparatory School...

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Text of Secretary Hillary Clinton's post-election speech

Thank you so very much for being here and I love you all, too. Last night, I congratulated Donald Trump and offered to work with him on behalf of our country. I hope that he will be a successful president...

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Text of President Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention

Text of President Barack Obama's speech Wednesday at the Democratic National Convention, as provided by the White House. ___ Hello, America. Twelve years ago tonight, I addressed this convention for the very first time. You met my two little girls,...

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