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Prayer resources for health care reform
Thursday, Nov 5, 2009 – 13:59

The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has released some additional resources in conjunction with it Nationwide Bulletin Insert about health care reform, including the following prayers:

Federal abortion funding:what some people want to “Hyde”
Tuesday, Nov 3, 2009 – 16:53
Federal abortion funding:what some people want to “Hyde”

Addressing health care reform in his September 9 speech to Congress, President Obama assured the American public that “under our plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions.”This was truly a welcome pledge. …

Tell Congress: Remove abortion funding & mandates from needed health care reform
Thursday, Oct 29, 2009 – 15:33
Tell Congress: Remove abortion funding & mandates from needed health care reform

Congress is preparing to debate health care reform legislation. The Catholic bishops of the United States strongly support genuine health care reform that protects the life and dignity of all, from the moment of conception …

Contact Congress about health care reform
Thursday, Oct 15, 2009 – 16:08
Contact Congress about health care reform

Visit, call, send a fax, write a letter or e-mail your Congressman or woman and our U.S. Senators about health care reform.  Look up his or her contact information or send an e-mail directly.
Learn more …

State budget impasse is finally over
Wednesday, Oct 14, 2009 – 9:28
State budget impasse is finally over

On Friday evening, October 9, 2009, Governor Ed Rendell signed a $27.8 billion budget that was 101 days overdue.  The plan spends $500 million less than last year and does not include any broad-based tax …

Pennsylvania’s Catholic Bishops issue statement on health care reform
Tuesday, Oct 13, 2009 – 10:18
Pennsylvania’s Catholic Bishops issue statement on health care reform

Health care reform was discussed at a meeting of Pennsylvania’s Catholic Bishops on October 6, 2009.  Together, they issue the following statement:
Our Catholic moral tradition teaches that every human being, from the moment of conception …

Health care reform essential principles
Friday, Oct 9, 2009 – 13:05
Health care reform essential principles

Three chairmen of the bishops’ committees working on health care reform urged the U.S. Congress to improve current health care reform legislation, expressing their “disappointment that progress has not been made on the three priority …

Letter to U.S. Senate on healthcare
Thursday, Oct 1, 2009 – 9:12

Three U.S. bishops raised their concerns over human life and dignity, immigrants and affordability in a September 30 letter to the U.S. Senate. Cardinal Justin Rigali, Bishop William Murphy and Bishop John Wester chair the …

Bishops, legislators, Knights of Columbus gather in Harrisburg
Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 – 13:06
Bishops, legislators, Knights of Columbus gather in Harrisburg

“Long before there was a Left Wing and a Right Wing, there was the Gospel of Jesus Christ,” said Carl A. Anderson, best selling author and Supreme Knight of the Knights of Columbus.  Anderson’s keynote …

Mass for those who serve in public office
Tuesday, Sep 29, 2009 – 10:50
Mass for those who serve in public office

In their June 2004 statement, Catholics in Political Life, the Catholic Bishops of the United States reinforced the idea that, “Catholics who bring their moral convictions into public life do not threaten democracy or pluralism …