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Prayer for Boundary Crossers – International Migrants Day (December 18) December 6th, 2012
International Migrants Day provides an opportunity to promote awareness of issues relating to migrants and to increase knowledge of the social, economic and demographic processes affecting families. Our colleagues in Rome at the Commission for Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation (USG/UISG Secretariat) have made available a prayer resource for the occasion.
For copies of the prayer in 18 languages go to: http://jpicformation.wikispaces.com/EN_18Dec
Catholic Social Ministry Gathering December 4th, 2012
Register now for the CSMG to Connect-Learn-Pray-Advocate in Washington DC on Feb. 10-13, 2013! Early registration discount lasts until Dec. 12 ($295). This is a great opportunity to learn and advocate on key policy issues with many of your peers in Catholic social ministry around the country!
CMSM and LCWR will host a joint session for any religious on Sunday Feb. 10, 1-2:15 p.m. More information…
Corporate Responsibility and the ‘Fiscal Cliff’ December 3rd, 2012
In this latest Huffington Post blog, Fr. Seamus Finn OMI argues that corporations benefit from the social and physical infrastructure for which we collectively pay. Hence, their tax contribution, or lack therof, needs to be part of the conversation. Read this timely and interesting post…
Peace & Life Connections: November 20, 2012 December 1st, 2012
We are now reproducing the Consistent Life “Peace & Life Connections” weekly newsletter on our website. If you are interested in more information, or in subscribing to the e-newsletter, please visit www.consistent-life.org/
2009: U.S. Abortion Rate Drops 5%
In the largest single-year drop since legalization, the Centers for Disease Control report the U.S. abortion rate dropped 5% in 2009, the latest year for which it has figures.
The number of abortion clinics plummeted more in the 8 years when Bill Clinton was president than during any other 8-year period. Now the first year of Barack Obama’s term has offered another steep decline of another kind. But unlike that in the Clinton years, this decline can’t be attributed to relative economic prosperity; 2009 was the worst year of the Great Recession.
There are many ideas on why the abortion rate fell. One is that grassroots pro-life people take more action when not relying on presidential lip service.
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State, National Faith Officials to Congressional Leaders: “Don’t Push the Poor and Vulnerable Off the ‘Fiscal Cliff’” December 1st, 2012
Faith leaders from 16 states join the heads of numerous national religious organizations to stop deep cuts to programs that help the most vulnerable.
Senior religious officials from 16 states joined the heads of some of the nation’s most prominent Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations today to tell the Obama Administration and Congress, “Don’t push the poor and most vulnerable off the ‘fiscal cliff.’”
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