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The program exists in all 50 states and serves about 300,000 children a year.

Potential “policy challenges present a tremendous opportunity for Minnesota Catholics to, as Pope Francis has said, ‘meddle in politics’ by proposing a positive vision: the ability to choose what we ought, not the license to choose what we want.”

Describing the court’s reversal decision on the 1973 Roe v. Wade as “extraordinary,” the bishops said that the work to support families must be widened.

“”This unique moment necessitates a society and an economy that supports marriages, families and women,” Archbishop Coakley said.

Dr. Gianna Emanuela Molla, a pediatrician and daughter of Italian St. Gianna Beretta Molla, plans to open an international pilgrimage site and center in Springfield to help spread knowledge of and devotion to her parents and promote marriage and family life.

Minnesota’s bishops also joined a coalition of faith leaders from Minnesota’s Jewish, Muslim and Protestant communities to express opposition to the legalization of commercial sports gambling.

The Minnesota Catholic Conference is proposing to provide direct economic relief to Minnesota’s most important producers: families.

With the start of the 2022 Minnesota legislative session on Jan. 31, among the top policy priorities for the Minnesota Catholic Conference will be stopping efforts to legalize sports betting in the state, increasing supports for nonpublic school students and ensuring the budget surplus is used to benefit one of the state’s most important resources: families.