On June 16, the Catholic Church celebrates the Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Most Reverend Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), and Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, chairman of the USCCB’s Committee for Religious Liberty, joined…
AUSTIN — Recognizing education is one of the best means to escape poverty and that parents are best suited to determine the right educational choice for their children, the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops (TCCB) supports a set of bills increasing parental choice in education. The bills have been filed by Sen. Paul Bettencourt, Sen….
CCG Defends the Parents’ Rights to Homeschool CCG Legal Team Contributes to Briefs for Calif. Appeals Court When the California Court of Appeal granted a rehearing for the case that led to a decision banning homeschooling in California, it invited several amicus parties to submit briefs. Catholics for the Common Good has decided to participate…
Many times Catholics of good faith and good will, starting with the same understanding of their moral obligations, may legitimately arrive at very different conclusions and advocate divergent alternative solutions to given social concerns. Catholics for the Common Good avoids getting involved in these kinds of issues, since they offer no possibility for united Catholic…
WASHINGTON, DC — The U.S Senate passed S.5, the bill that finances scientific research that requires the destruction of living human beings in their embryonic stage of life. It passed on a 63-34 vote — only three votes more than the minimum amount needed to pass. On June 7, S. 5 was passed by the…
Concern for Life If the “Unborn Child Pain Awareness Act” passes congress, women contemplating abortion must be offered anesthesia for their unborn babies if they are over 20 weeks old. This legislation was reintroduced in both houses of Congress in late January 2005. It also requires that women be informed about fetal development and the…
By The Most Reverend Thomas J. Olmsted • How would you define a lay person? A lay person is any member of the faithful who has not received Holy Orders and does not belong to a religious state approved by the Church. Through Baptism, a lay person is incorporated into Christ and becomes integrated into…
By Diane Frances Barberini At a recent members-only dinner, the San Francisco chapter of Catholics for the Common Good honored CCG advisor, Ambassador Raymond Flynn. After speaking for a time about his personal relationship with Pope John Paul II, the former US Ambassador to the Vatican under the Clinton Administration and three-time Mayor of Boston…
A New Catholic Action “As lay men and women … you are being called by Christ to sanctify the world and to transform it.”Pope John Paul IIEcclesia in America Catholics for the Common Good is a new Catholic Action responding to the call of the Pope John Paul II for the new evangelization and the…
Catholics for the Common Good and CCG Advisor, former Ambassador Raymond L. Flynn have launched a national campaign to educate Catholics on the insidious record of de facto religious discrimination against nominees who are faithful Catholics and other Christians. “We are asking them to prepare to mobilize if religious discrimination rears its ugly head in…
By Bill May California and the nation dodged a huge bullet when California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed the “same-sex marriage” legislation on September 30, 2005, that the legislature had put on his desk earlier in the month. The fact that such legislation could pass any legislative chamber in the country is a shock and should…
By Jack Smith Proposition 73, an initiative proposal requiring parental notification prior to performing an abortion on a minor, was voted down by a slim margin in the Statewide Special Election Nov. 8. Prop. 73 failed by a margin of 47.4 to 52.6 percent to bring California law into line with the vast majority of…