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The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops will receive a federal grant of over $4 million over the next two years to provide legal aid to unaccompanied immigrant children who have entered the United States. The US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants will also receive a similar grant from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Kevin Appleby, director of the USCCB’s Office of Migration Policy and Public Affairs, told MSNBC that “I think it’s a recognition that many of these children have valid protection claims and they need legal representation.” “It is a result of advocacy and raising...

Now that he has been named archbishop of Chicago, many people have expressed interest in Bishop Blase Cupich’s time as bishop of the Diocese of Spokane. I should make clear that I barely know Bishop Cupich on a personal level. I am only a Catholic layman in the diocese of Spokane. I do, however, hold an endowed chair in “Christian Philosophy” at Gonzaga University, serve as academic advisor to Bishop White Seminary (an undergraduate college seminary at Gonzaga), and am a former director of Gonzaga’s small Catholic Studies Program. Gonzaga University is, primarily, a school of approximately 4800 undergraduates that...

With my parents at a performance of Gounod's Faust at the opera some years ago, when Marguerite went mad in Act V after killing her baby, my mother let out a gasp that embarrassed me, for we were in a box over stage left and conspicuous. Now I bless my mother because that maternal empathy is the heart of civilization. “A voice was heard in Ramah, Rachel weeping for her children” (Jeremiah 31:15). Stifle the mother, and you stifle the child, and the world dies. Our Lady, being a take-charge kind of woman, as was evident at the wedding in...

Dear President Obama: I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. Into Mexico, and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, President Calderon, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be...

#1 Cancel your cable. You’d only be supporting the MSM that lied and defended Obama to the tooth and help secure his re-election. I cancelled my cable and saved $1000 from going to Hollywood and the MSM. #2 Get some business card printed up that say “Obama’s government has taken all of my money and I am unable to leave you a tip. You might try calling the White House at: (phone number) and ask Obama for your tip.” Leave this on the table whenever you go out to eat at restaurants or places where tips are customarily given. #3...

This is the last time I will be voting in a national election. I am in my 60's and have concluded that, if this is the kind of governing Americans want, they should have it...and all its consequences. Sour grapes you say? Perhaps. But after four years of the most abysmally failed government with consistently high unemployment, 16 trillion dollars in national debt, downgrading of our bonds and monetary system with printing of dollars by the Fed, attacks against freedom of religion, a loss of American leadership in the world, class warfare, homosexuality embedded in our fabric, our nuclear family...

This is the last time I will be voting in a national election. I am in my 60's and have concluded that, if this is the kind of governing Americans want, they should have it...and all its consequences. Sour grapes you say? Perhaps. But after four years of the most abysmally failed government with consistently high unemployment, 16 trillion dollars in national debt, downgrading of our bonds and monetary system with printing of dollars by the Fed, attacks against freedom of religion, a loss of American leadership in the world, class warfare, homosexuality embedded in our fabric, our nuclear family...

It is imperative that you to get out today to vote FOR ROMNEY/RYAN and AGAINST Obama/Biden. Here are two things you must consider: #1 Obama has been an abysmal failure and was hell bent on destroying our economy and democratic institutions of government despite the fact that he would have to face voters in today's re-election. Just think what he will do to you, your children and grandchildren's future in the next four years when he does NOT have to face the voters again! You’re finished. #2. Since the founding of our republic, nine (9) out of forty-three (almost 21%)...

It is imperative for you to get out today to vote FOR ROMNEY/RYAN and AGAINST Obama/Biden. Here are two things you must consider: #1 Obama was an abysmal failure and was hell bent on destroying our economy and democratic institution of government despite having to face voters in today's re-election. Just think what he will do to you, your children and grandchildren's future in the next four years when he does NOT have to face the voters again! #2. In the event that Obama is unable to serve out his full term of office if re-elected, Joe Biden will be...

Since Obama's campaign has degenerated to nothing but lie, after lie, after lie why don't we just begin to make up stories just to demonstrate how craven this man is? If we float just as phony, made-up stories as the Obama campaign, no one will believe anything attributed to him. This man has no morals, none whatsoever. This man is a street thug in a $1,000 suit. Nothing more. Shame on those Americans who voted for him the first time. But I cannot think of a word to describe those who will do so a second time.

In the almost four years I've worked for Breitbart News, I've consistently averaged about 125 posts a month, but because I went to public schools, I can’t tell you how many posts that totals up to. My guess is that it's a lot. What I have never done in a single one of these posts, though, is to offer anyone unsolicited advice. I once ran a campaign and got shellacked; so who am I to give election advice? I once made a film and it sucked; so who am I to give creative advice? Today, though, I'm going to break...

On Monday I posted a Vanity Post that when I Googled Chick-Fil-A, it got 9 million hits. Today, four days later, I Googled it again and it got 307,000,000 hits. So I ask the liberals, Obama, and the same-sex marriage crowd, "How's the boycott working for you?" "How's the gay ;marriage' thing going for you?" Can you repeat after me T-E-A P-A-R-T-Y.

Just Googled "Chick-Fil-A" and got near 9 million hits. So do you think the boycott is working? Seems like the vote is in for marriage between one man and one woman ONLY!.

Applying Our Enduring Truths to Our Defining Challenge The Catholic Church offers a rich overview of its thought, summarized in the Compendium of Social Doctrine, to guide Catholics in bringing truth to society’s problems. In his introduction, Cardinal Renato Martino, then president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, wrote, “This area belongs in a particular way” to those lay faithful who are active “in the social sector.” As a congressman and Catholic layman, I am persuaded that Catholic social truths are in accord with the “self-evident truths” our Founders bequeathed to us in the founding ideas of America:...

Just yesterday the Obama Regime struck yet another blow to religious freedom in this country. Kathleen Sebelius (Dir of HHS) mandated that every taxpayer will now pay $1 a year toward the funding of abortion. Now here's the kicker: in this HHS regulation, it states explicitly that NO MORE MENTION OF THIS PAYMENT WILL BE EVER GIVEN TO TAXPAYERS - IT'S FOREVER HIDDEN. So much for transparency! Now you might not be too concerned about religious liberty as I am. But here's a warning: today they are coming after MY religious liberty. Tomorrow they will be coming after YOUR freedom...

Here is an opportunity to join together Friday, March 23 at noon as Americans rally in defense of religious freedom and stand up against the HHS Mandate forcing Churches to violate their consciences or be fined by the government. Demonstrations will take place across the country at federal buildings. For further information about the rallies you can visit: http://standupforreligiousfreedom.com

On March 13, in Dallas, TX, an organization you’ve probably never heard of is going to revolutionize the pro-life movement. It starts with a kid from Philly, a bus in New York, and an idea that brought him quite by accident to the city where Roe v. Wade started — the city where he hopes abortion will finally meet its match. David Pomerantz, 23, does not look like a pro-lifer or a practicing Christian. He looks like a vegan hipster with emo hair. As a matter of fact, he sort of is a vegan hipster with emo hair. If you...

#1 You're a deadbeat good-for-nothing who is on every government program that the Left has concocted and you want to make sure Obama continues to use other people's money so you don't have to work a day in your life. #2 You're a racist. Chances are you feel that Blacks are entitled to the presidency because of slavery, you pity Blacks and your vote will help assuage your guilt. #3 You're a Communist and think (like the OWS crowd) that you are entitled to confiscate other people's money and give to others. #4 You hate America - most especially you...

It is racism, plain and simple, that got Barack Obama elected president. When 98% of Black people pulled the lever for Obama, that's racism (probably the same 98% of Blacks who said OJ Simpson was innocent of murdering his White estranged wife). No, America is not racist but the people who point their fingers at the rest of us ARE the most racist you can find. Contrary to what Martin Luther King Jr asserted, Obama was elected based on the color of his skin. You cannnot get any more racist than that. When Obama inaugurates an "African-Americans for Obama" re-election...

This is a serious question. Our very liberties are at stake and my sense is that Americans either: a. do not understand the system of government called for by our Constitution or b. have opted to scrap the Constitution and want a communist form of government. Why else would they vote for Obama? Which do you think it is, or are their other explanations?