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Catholic scholar and legal expert Ryan T. Anderson warned that if the Equality Act is passed it would significantly impact women’s privacy and safety, genuine equality, medical practices and religious liberty.

“The third millennium, far from inspiring a religious revival, has seen a rapid shrinkage in religious practice in what has been one of the most religious countries in the developed world.”

The day before recess, the House Rules Committee voted to waive the deadline required for four bills, including a recreational marijuana legalization bill.

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“We could all stand to pay attention to the kinds of questions we ask, how empathetically we listen and whether or not we approach other people in their complexity and complications, rather than with a caricature of them in mind.”

“All of our technology and its power to mystify the uninitiated poses something of a threat to experiencing God’s presence in our lives.”

“‘We are all in the same boat,’ Pope Francis reminded us. … We could perhaps point out that we are all in the same storm but not in the same boat. There are stronger boats and there are more fragile ones. We also see that sometimes those who are in the same boat try to throw others off it.”

Mother Tolton’s journey is representative of the thousands of Black laywomen who kept the faith alive when most in the white-dominated church sought to abandon Black Catholics.