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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
January 7, 2010

USCCB: Keep abortion out of health care

Posted by : J.D. Long-García

I received this from the Arizona Catholic Conference earlier tonight. It’s a bulletin insert being circulated from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop URGENT: USCCB NATIONWIDE BULLETIN INSERT Stop Abortion Funding in Health Care Reform! Protect Conscience Ensure Affordable Health Coverage Allow Immigrants to Purchase Private Health Insurance As long-time advocates of health care reform, [...]


May 22, 2009

Cardinal George praises Obama’s conscience clause promise

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : Uncategorized

WASHINGTON — Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, praised President Barack Obama’s promise to support conscience clauses. “Caring health professionals and institutions should know that their deeply held religious or moral convictions will be respected as they exercise their right to serve patients in need,” Cardinal Francis [...]


August 25, 2008

Catholics in the news: Sen. Joe Biden

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : From the Staff

This weekend presidential hopeful Barack Obama announced that Delaware Sen. Joe Biden will be his running mate.  The fact that Biden is a Catholic makes this even bigger news for the Church. That he supports keeping abortion legal will have people once again discussing the responsibility of a Catholic politician. Catholic News Service published a [...]