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Catholic Democrats responds to HHS regulations on basic preventive healthcare
The Dept of Health and Human Services issued final rules governing the provision of basic preventive care for insurance plans created under the 2010 Affordable Care Act. These rules followed the recommendations of the Institute of Medicine, providing for cost-free preventive care including contraception for all Americans. Catholic Democrats responds. more » |
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Why does the middle class pay higher taxes than the super-wealthy?
Pope Benedict has issued a string of public statements endorsing the role of government in addressing the most urgent needs of society--and the responsibility of the well-off to help the least among us. Paul Krugman recounts the history of the current lopsided tax structure. more » |
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"We are to serve God wittily, in the tangle of our minds"
Dr David DeCosse at the Univ of Santa Clara explores the clash over conscience between some bishops and the Obama Administration with regard to the new HHS regulations expanding contraceptive insurance coverage from 28 states to the whole nation. more » |
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Please Read: US Catholic
Bishops' "Faithful Citizenship"
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"He gave us strength in time of trouble, wisdom in time of uncertainty, and sharing in time of happiness. He will always be by our side...[May he] be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw wrong and tried to right it, saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war and tried to stop it. Those of us who loved him and who take him to his rest today, pray that what he was to us and what he wished for others will some day come to pass for all the world. As he said many times, in many parts of this nation, to those he touched and who sought to touch him:
Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not."Sen Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
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Saturday, January 28, 2012 |
"Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America: They will be met.
"On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord.
"On this day, we come to proclaim an end to the petty grievances and false promises, the recriminations and worn-out dogmas, that for far too long have strangled our politics."
Inaugural Address, President Obama
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