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Annual Appeal Launched!

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Each year in October the AUSCP begins its Annual Appeal, October 11, to coincide with the feastday of Pope St. John XXIII and the opening date of the Second Vatican Council in 1962. The Annual Appeal is the main source of income for the AUSCP! Last year 480 donors gave a total of…

Top 3 faith moments in the Harris-Pence vice presidential debate

Election Week 9, News
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(RNS) — When the two major party vice presidential candidates — a Black Baptist with Hindu heritage and a white, “born again evangelical Catholic” — faced off on Wednesday night (Oct. 7), they largely talked past one another (and their moderator). But among their prepared arguments, Vice President Mike Pence and Sen.…

Immigration Reform: Christian Perspectives for Voting

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By James J. Bacik In 2005, Senators John McCain and Ted Kennedy launched a bipartisan effort to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation.  This effort to reform our broken immigration system failed, as have subsequent attempts.  Noteworthy was the 2013 bill sponsored by the bipartisan Gang of Eight that passed the…

Economic Justice: Christian Perspectives for Voters

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By James J. Bacik In this 2020 election, we are electing candidates in the middle of an economic crisis with millions of jobs lost and an unemployment rate around 8% due to the coronavirus pandemic.              Back in 1986, the American bishops published a pastoral letter, “Economic Justice for All,”…

Compassion: Preparing for the Election

Election Week 8
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Some things in life — and in preparing for an election — persist. Father Carl J. Arico delivered a talk on compassion four years ago. It remains something to examine as voters prepare for November 2020.
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