WASHINGTON — The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has urged the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) not to adopt a proposed regulation that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of protected categories for which discrimination in HUD programs is prohibited. In comments filed today with HUD, Anthony…
By The Most Reverend Glen John Provost, D.D. Bishop of Lake Charles A serious responsibility of a bishop is to insure the purity of teaching in areas of faith and morals (cf. I Timothy 4:16). These teachings must be in conformity with the universal and historic teachings found in Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition and…
In his address to the UN, the Holy Father spoke about the role and proper understanding of human rights. Below are several passages taken from his address which elaborate the concept of human rights as promoting human freedom, the connection between human rights and common good, as well as the responsibility to protect life and the…
Many pastors and other Catholic leaders encourage their immigrant flock to participate in labor unions. Catholic thinking does not buy the argument that freedom and happiness automatically accrue as individuals pursue their own interest. Catholicism finds that people experience true freedom through participation in the family and other mediating structures, including unions. The labor movement,…
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…
DARFUR, Sudan, June 19, 2007 (www.zenit.org).- A Caritas employee was shot and killed on his way home from work at a West Darfur refugee camp on Sunday. The Caritas/Action by Churches Together employee, Adam Adam, worked in a camp for displaced persons in West Darfur. As he was on his way home from work Sunday…
ABATA, Sudan (www.zenit.org) — While people living in displacement camps now have access to basic services, remote communities in Darfur have received little humanitarian assistance because of continued security threats to aid workers. A sick child, one of the many victims of the Darfur conflict. Photo by: Ruth Messinger/American Jewish World Service Charlotte Brudenell (of…
With President Bush’s nomination of District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge John Roberts to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Catholics for the Common Good is calling Catholics to action to help assure that he does not fall victim to religious discrimination in the confirmation process as…