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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.
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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 …

Most Americans want health care reform, oppose abortion coverage
Monday, Sep 28, 2009 – 12:36

A nationwide survey commissioned by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has found widespread public opposition to including abortion in health care reform and majority support for conscience rights protection – views shared …

Health care reform: Planned Parenthood’s hidden agenda
Wednesday, Sep 16, 2009 – 15:33

The late Chicago Cardinal Joseph Bernadin spoke and wrote about the consistent ethic of life and health care reform throughout the early 1990s. In addresses and articles of that title in 1994, he said, “The …

Day of Dialogue on Justification
Monday, Sep 14, 2009 – 15:45
Day of Dialogue on Justification

As part of the Pennsylvania Conference on Interchurch Cooperation (PCIC), the Pennsylvania Catholic Conference (PCC) invites you to a special event sponsored by the Lutheran-Anglican-Roman Catholic Coordinating Committee.
The Day of Dialogue on the Joint Declaration on the …