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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence gestures as he speaks during the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast June 6 in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Michael J. O’Loughlin
The vice president highlighted the administration's initiatives to promote religious freedom and protect human life.
Protesters gather outside the White House in Washington on June 1 to protest President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the Unites States from the Paris climate change accord. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
Politics & SocietyDispatches
Jim McDermott
In parts of the U.S. church 'Laudato Si'' has sparked creativity and innovation with impacts not so easily set aside. One such experiment is the Diocese of Monterey’s advocacy of Community Choice Energy.
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Catholic News Service
"The Catholic Church remains committed to ensuring the fundamental right to medical care, a right which is in keeping with the God-given dignity of every person, and the corresponding obligation as a country to provide for this right."
A unanimous Supreme Court says religious hospitals don’t have to comply with federal laws protecting pension benefits for workers. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Sam Hananel - Associated Press
The hospitals—two with Catholic affiliation and one with Lutheran ties—had argued that their pensions are "church plans" that are exempt from the law and have been treated as such for decades by federal officials.
Catholic farmer Stephen Tennes is suing the City of East Lansing, Mich., after he was banned from a farmers' market because of his refusal to host a lesbian couple's wedding. Photo courtesy of Alliance Defending Freedom.
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Madeleine Buckley - Religion News Service
A Catholic farmer in Michigan is suing the city of East Lansing after he was barred from a municipal farmers market over his views on same-sex marriage.
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