Welcome to the Catholic Democrats of Rhode Island!
Our new organization is drawing on the rich intellectual and political traditions of Rhode Island to bring the implications of Catholic Social Teaching to bear on our public life.
There will be three Rhode Island Catholic Democrats in the 111th Congress: Jack Reed in the U.S. Senate and Patrick J. Kennedy and Jim Langevin in the House of Representatives....
In a letter August 20 to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in Boston, Bishop Thomas Tobin wrote, "We often ask, 'What would Jesus do?'" and added, "I know for sure what Jesus would not do, would be to...
The coordinator of the George Wiley Center in Pawtucket estimated that about 10,000 Rhode Island families had lost gas or electric service because of non-payment so far this year. He said that the rate increase, which took effect across the...
In a column for Rhode Island Catholic, Bishop Thomas Tobin took a humorous ride through the implications of an interview in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, with Fr Jose Gabriel Funes, the Jesuit Director of the Vatican Observatory. He writes,...
An editorial in the Rhode Island Catholic accepts the apologies offered by Rev John Hagee for his past anti-Catholic remarks. The author cites forgiveness as a Christian value, and applauds a letter Hagee wrote to Catholic League President Bill Donohue...
WASHINGTON -- It wasn't a small or an intimate reception, but for some in the Diocese of Providence it was nonetheless memorable. A record 13,500 people attended a reception for Pope Benedict XVI on the south lawn of the White...
MILWAUKEE -- Lincoln Chafee, former Republican Senator from Rhode Island, indicated in February that that he planned to change his party registration -- at least on primary day March 4 -- and endorsing Senator Barack Obama's presidential candidacy. As the...
It's very fitting that Holy Week occurs in the springtime since both speak to us of new life. While we welcome the new life that nature will soon bring, at the same time we celebrate the new life that comes...
"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.
