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Budget a Moral Bust?
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House Republicans passed a 2013 budget reconciliation package  that included cuts in social services despite an appeal from the U.S. bishops.

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Polarization Wins Again
John J. DiIulio
With less than six months to go before the 2012 November elections, two results are sadly certain: first, the voting public will be the most ideologically divided ever; second, the 113th Congress (2013–14) will be the most partisan and polarized ever. Between 1972 and 2008, the percentage of R
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U.S. Catholic Population At 59 Million
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The figure was below the number of 62 million reported in 2000, but the difference is due to a change in the way data was collected.

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Irish Seek Dialogue
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Speakers at a conference in Dublin called on the hierarchy to open structures of dialogue with lay Catholics about the future of the church.

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New Caritas Oversight
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A Vatican decree on May 2 established new norms for Caritas Internationalis, giving Vatican offices greater authority over the work of the umbrella group of 162 Catholic aid agencies around the world.

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News Briefs
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Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago on April 25 presided over the burial of some of the 120 fetuses stored at a medical examiner’s office.

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