Pages tagged "health care"
St. Francis: Tough words for lawmakers and citizens alike
St. Francis of Assisi is a beloved saint to many, but often a mischaracterized one. Usually shown with animals, the mainstream vision of ...
Continue reading…Inside the Capitol Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Family Poverty Relief
What's the connection between abortion and poverty? In our latest installment of Inside the Capitol, the Minnesota Catholic Conference'...
Continue reading…CHAMN/MCC Joint Letter to the Legislature: Health Care with a Priority for Accessibility and Affordability for Everyone
January 18, 2017 Health Care with a Priority for Accessibility and Affordability for Everyone THE ISSUE: Principles for consideration as...
Continue reading…‘The Joy of Love’ and family policy
In his recently released exhortation, “Amoris Laetitia” (“The Joy of Love”), Pope Francis affirms the family as the foundational unit of ...
Continue reading…The Catholic Spirit: MCC: Physician-assisted suicide bill pulled, but fight isn’t over
(March 22, 2016 – The Catholic Spirit – By Maria Wiering) After more than three hours of emotional testimony March 16 from both proponent...
Continue reading…Minnesota’s budget: Finding the right ‘measure’
One of the main debates at the State Capitol this year centers on what to do with a projected $900 million budget surplus, the result of ...
Continue reading…The dead end of gender theory
Pope Francis has been talking a lot lately about what he is calling “gender theory.” He has called it an “anthropological regression” tha...
Continue reading…The Catholic Spirit: MCC ‘very proud’ of passage of prenatal diagnosis bill
Other legislation supported by Minnesota Catholic Conference didn’t fare as well during 2015 state legislative session Thanks to the work...
Continue reading…Letter to legislators regarding MinnesotaCare
Dear Members of the House HHS Finance Committee: As you craft and vote on your final omnibus proposal for Health and Human Services fundi...
Continue reading…Living ‘life’ in a throw away culture
There is an increase today in the demand for convenience, a growing disdain for anything that causes us any sort of burden or pain. Where...
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