Welcome to the Catholic Democrats of New York!
Our new organization is drawing on the rich intellectual and political traditions of New York to bring the implications of Catholic Social Teaching to bear on our public life. With New Yorkers leading the polls in both the Democratic and Republican primary races, our work here seems more important than ever.
There will be 14 New York Catholic Democrats in the 111th Congress: Michael Arcuri, Timothy H. Bishop, Joseph Crowley, Kirsten Gillibrand, Brian Higgins, Maurice D. Hinchey, Dan Maffei, Eric Massa, Carolyn McCarthy, Michael E. McMahon, Charles B. Rangel, Jose E....
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Many people, if asked when Hispanics began to reshape the Catholic Church in New York City, would probably put the date around 1950, when Puerto Rican migrants began arriving in Manhattan in large numbers. But in fact, Hispanics had exerted...
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Barack Obama is no John Kennedy. And that may turn out to be a good thing. At least with regard to reversing one of the unintended consequences of Camelot: the idea that religious voices have no place on the public...
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This new exhibit shows a rich collection of political and ecclesial memorabilia with colorful stories to match. It’s bracing to witness the depth of suspicion and outright hostility that Catholics originally faced here. In the 19th century, the exhibition reminds...
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Sara Collins PhD of the New York-based Commonwealth Fund issued a new report indicating that 30% of people between 19-29 have no health insurance, compared with 12% of children. The number of uninsured young people jumped 3% from 2005 to...
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A spokesperson for the US Bishops' Conference praised the passage of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (H.R. 493), which passed unanimously in the Senate on April 24 and subsequently with only one nay vote in the House. The bill, initially...
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February 9, 2008--Hillary Rodham Clinton has run away with the votes of Roman Catholic Democrats in nearly all the primaries, often beating Barack Obama by two to one or better, exit polls show. In New York, she received 66 percent...
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Representative Gillibrand is serving her first term as U.S. Representative to New York's Twentieth Congressional District, which stretches across Saratoga, Dutchess, Columbia, Rensselaer, Washington, Warren, Delaware, Greene, Essex and Otsego Counties. She serves on the House Armed Services Committee and...
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On August 1, 2007 Governor Eliot Spitzer signed into law a piece of legislation strongly supported by the New York State Catholic Conference that will promote the donation, collection, preservation and storage of umbilical cord blood for research and treatment....
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Saturday, February 4, 2012 |
"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.
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