Our new organization is drawing on the rich intellectual and political traditions of Missouri to bring the implications of Catholic Social Teaching to bear on our public life.
There will be two Missouri Catholic Democrats in the 111th Congress: Claire McCaskill in the U.S. Senate, and William Lacy Clay in the House of Representatives....
"Putting Kids First in St. Louis County" is a countywide initiative supported by the Archdiocese to develop a Community Children's Service fund that will help our children, youth and their families facing tough issues like substance abuse, child abuse and...
In June, Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Raymond Burke, 60, to lead the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura. He is the first American to hold the position. Bishop Robert Hermann, 74, is serving as the archdiocesan administrator until Benedict...
Catholics agencies and their social service partners here in Eastern Missouri have been reaching out to people affected by flooding in the northeastern part of the St Louis Archdiocese. The Mississippi and some tributaries hit record or near-record levels in...
A major and an unusual event took place earlier today uniting people from ALL major religions of the world. Look at this list of diverse nations that agreed on that one thing: US (Western Christianity), Russia (Eastern Christianity), China (Buddhism/atheism),...
What would you do if you unexpectedly got to meet the pope? Nearly hyperventilating at the thought was St. Louisan Charleen Sartori, who will be traveling with a group of 100 people from the archdiocese by bus to New York...
An Illinois state legislator says his former Catholic high school invited him to join the school's "Hall of Honor" in recognition of his political career -- then yanked back that invitation after deciding his voting record wasn't in line with...
The Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau welcomed a new prelate on Monday, March 31. Bishop Vann Johnston Jr, who trained as an electrical engineer and subsequently in canon law, assumed a position once held by the young Bernard Law before...
The four bishops issued a statement in January calling for comprehensive national immigration reform in response to the Biblical injunction to "welcome the stranger." Read more....
"A most sad effect of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis is the massive emigration of Palestinian Christians from the Holy Land, because they can no longer provide a decent and safe life for themselves and their families. It cannot...
Posted by Catholic Democrats Staff on April 3, 2008 at 11:04 AM
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"It is necessary to recover some basic aspects of finances, such as the primacy of labor over capital, of human relationships over purely financial transactions, and of ethics over the sole criterion of efficiency," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's apostolic nuncio to the United Nations.
Emily Hanson, Chair, Catholic Democrats of Missouri
