Delivered Thursday morning, 2 February 2012 Michelle and I feel truly blessed to be here. This is my third year coming to this prayer breakfast as President. As Jeff mentioned, before that, I came as senator. I have to say,...
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Archbishop Timothy Dolan, the president of the USCCB, is leading a campaign against the Obama Administration rooted in the charge that the Administration is somehow infringing on the "religious liberty" of Catholics. In an opinion piece published in the Wall...
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As a physician and pediatric specialist, I know that news of the HHS regulations today means that more women will have access to the kind of health care that has been denied to millions over the years because of the...
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Breaking News--Heart Breaking News in More Ways than One Rev Emmanuel Charles McCarthy Archbishop Edwin O'Brien, former military chaplain and former Archbishop of the Catholic Military Archdiocese of the United States, who to this day teaches that the Vietnam War...
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by Prof. David O'Brien Washington Post "On Faith" blog 14 Nov 2011 As the American Catholic bishops gather for their semi-annual meeting this week, the poor are again knocking at their door. Despite all their divisions, American Catholics, indeed all...
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Commonweal Magazine, Nov 18, 2011 by Patrick Whelan There is a quiet battle going on in U.S. Christianity about whether being a Christian is more about what one professes or how one acts. In the eternal argument over faith versus...
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Archbishop Dolan, president of the USCCB, announced the formation September 30 of a "committee for religious freedom" that will employ a lawyer and a full-time lobbyist. Lumping a number of Obama Administration policies into a pot of supposed "assaults on...
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Statement of Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, on the occasion of the death of Archbishop Sambi News of the July 27 death of Archbishop Pietro Sambi, Apostolic Nuncio to the United States...
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Joseph A. Feuerherd, whose journalism career began as a college intern in the Washington Bureau of the National Catholic Reporter (NCR) and concluded with his service as Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of that award-winning publication, died Thursday morning (May 26) at...
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by Fred Rotondaro Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress My father came from Italy to America in the early years of the last century. Like many immigrant families, everyone needed to work. And so my father became a "Breaker Boy"...
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Saturday, February 4, 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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