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From Montana to Florida and Texas to Maine, homeless shelters opened additional hours and home checks were commonplace as gusty winds carried teeth-chattering Arctic air southward.
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Hardly a week passed without at least one reaction, statement or commentary, all based on Catholic social teaching.
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The letter called for a reversal of the bill’s plan to gradually increase taxes on taxpayers in the lowest income brackets while maintaining tax cuts for higher earners, including the most wealthy.
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Responding to the string of extreme weather events has been a challenge for the society in the affected communities and the society overall.
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A federal court order has temporarily stopped construction on a natural gas pipeline in Pennsylvania, a section of which is being built on land owned by a religious order and is the focus of protests.
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Rather than ending TPS advocates say it was time for Congress to develop a legislative plan to allow Nicaraguans, Hondurans and others to remain in the U.S. permanently.
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"We will continue to have a presence here. How can we not? We live here. This is our home."
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The EPA has decided to roll back an Obama-era regulation to curb carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
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Divestment from fossil fuels is one way to "look at how one applies the teachings" of "Laudato Si'."
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WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Thousands sought shelter in Puerto Rico, as Hurricane Maria, called a "monster storm" by many, hit the Caribbean island just short of a Category 5 storm Sept. 20, with winds of 155 miles per hour.
Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello said the hurricane had the potential of being the "most catastrophic hurricane to hit Puerto Rico in a century."