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For young adults today, more Americans agree that it’s easier for them than their parents’ generation to stay in touch with friends and family, get into college or find a job. But when it comes to saving for the future, paying for college, buying a house or finding a spouse, most Americans say young adults have it a lot harder.
As a bill that would have codified the right to abortion into federal law failed to advance in the U.S. Senate Monday, pro-life advocates contend that Senate Democrats who supported the bill are "radically out of touch with the American people."
The failure of the U.S. Senate Feb. 28 to advance an “extreme measure” to establish a legal right to abortion at any stage of pregnancy nationwide “is a tremendous relief,” said the U.S. bishops.
Catholics across Southern California offered prayers for peace to meet the might of an advancing Russian army in Ukraine.
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services, urged fellow bishops to “be sensitive” to the families of U.S. military personnel recently deployed to Europe.
Texas Catholic leaders and other opponents of the death penalty are urging Texas officials to grant clemency to a 53-year-old Latina woman set to be executed in late April.
An Idaho statehouse panel on Tuesday rejected legislation that opponents said would have harmed education by transferring more than $1 billion dollars of public money to private and religious schools.
At a time when divisiveness has run rampant in the Church and broader society, Kim Daniels suggests a way to overcome it is stepping back from “large forces” like media and politics and living out the Catholic faith through service in everyday life.
Sister Norma Pimentel, executive director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, has encouraged political advocacy group CatholicVote to come and see the work of Catholic agencies at the U.S.-Mexico border for themselves.
Israel’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that four Palestinian families at risk of being evicted from their homes in the contentious eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah will be allowed to stay, for now.
