Through online events, phone banks aimed at Catholic-heavy counties and specific digital messages and emails citing each candidate’s appeal to Catholics, the campaigns are ensuring that voters who make up the country’s largest religious group know where Trump and Biden stand on key issues.
In final drive to the election, campaigns go all out for the Catholic vote
Trump says he will sign order to ensure babies born alive receive care
President Donald Trump said Sept. 23 he would sign an executive order to “ensure that all precious babies born alive, no matter their circumstances, receive the medical care that they deserve.”
Six months into pandemic, Catholic organizations adjust, adapt
COVID-related supplemental grants assist U.S. congregations of men and women religious in caring for their elderly and infirm members.
Congress urged to cover immigrant, refugee families in any stimulus bill
U.S. bishops’ migration committee told a House subcommittee Sept. 23 immigrants are among the front-line essential workers in the country during the pandemic and must be eligible for stimulus relief.
Sister Norma Pimentel is one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people of 2020
Sister Norma Pimentel, a Missionary of Jesus and executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, becomes one of Time magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world.
Listening, adapting is key to assisting displaced people, speakers say
Cardinal Michael Czerny shares practical actions from Pope Francis’ message for the World Day of Migrants and Refugees, in a Zoom conference Sept. 23.
Droughts, derecho, COVID-19, trade with China make year tough for farming
Farming operations are struggling with the devastation caused by weather and trade.
U.S. bishops say ‘enough’ on federal executions
Just hours before the sixth federal execution took place this year, and two days before the next one was scheduled, two U.S. bishops’ committee chairmen called on the government to end this practice.