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Willie Pep's JournalCatholic nuns come out against GOP health care bill
Over 7,000 Catholic nuns unite against 'immoral' GOP health care bill in a public letter to senators
by Jen Hayden
A group representing more than 7,000 Catholic nuns has released an absolutely scorching statement on the Republican health care bill, calling it “immoral” and the “most harmful legislation for American families in our lifetimes, and it goes against our Catholic faith teaching.” They also rightly called out the bill for being the opposite of “pro-life.”
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See: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/7/24/1683418/-Over-7-000-Catholic-nuns-unite-against-immoral-GOP-health-care-bill-in-a-public-letter-to-senators
Is the Religious Right to Blame for Christianity's Decline?
June 5, 2017
Is the Religious Right to Blame for Christianity’s Decline?
The movement is one of the most dramatic failures in American political history.
By George Hawley
No one will be surprised to learn that religious beliefs, affiliations, and activities are important predictors of political attitudes and actions. This is one of the more well-studied subjects in the field of political behavior. Most of the literature examining this relationship, however, assumed a causal arrow that points in only one direction: religion influences politics. The stack of books and papers considering whether trends in politics influence trends in religion is much shorter. This is starting to change, and the results of this research increasingly suggests that the Religious Right played at least some role in America’s declining religiosity.
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Full article: http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/is-the-religious-right-to-blame-for-christianitys-decline/
Unions should be prophetic voice for a new social compact, Pope says.
June 28, 2017
Pope Francis said that trade unions should fulfill a prophetic role in society, in a June 28 meeting with members of the Confederation of Trade Unions in Italy.
“The union is an expression of the prophetic role of society,” the Pontiff said. He explained that a union should not be merely a political institution, but a representative of the true interests of workers in the cooperative work of production.
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Full article: http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=31977&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories+%28Catholic+World+News+%28on+CatholicCulture.org%29%29
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