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Catholic Charities Leaders Plead for Needs of Poor with Congress Sunday, April 21, 2013 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The picture on Ted Bergh's cellphone showed a long line of people winding around Springfield Central Catholic School in western Ohio. They were there April 13 to get food, he said; 733 families, 2,378 people in all.

Bishops Remind Congress Poor Must Be First in Budget Priorities Wednesday, March 20, 2013 WASHINGTON (CNS) — The needs of poor and vulnerable Americans must remain at the top of the country's spending priorities as Congress debates the federal budget in the coming weeks, the chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops committees said.

'Labor Priests' Trained to Help Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers Friday, July 13, 2012 WASHINGTON (CNS)—The concept of "labor priest," epitomized by Msgr. John Egan and Msgr. George Higgins in the 20th century, has been given a new twist to meet the realities of the 21st century.

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DUBUQUE, Iowa (CNS) —The big colorful bus sponsored by Network, a Catholic social justice lobby group from Washington, stopped in Dubuque June 19, the second day of its tour through nine states to alert people to how cuts in the proposed Ryan budget would harm those already struggling. Thursday, June 21, 2012 'Nuns on Bus' Focus on Effects of Cuts on Struggling Americans Thursday, June 21, 2012	YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (CNS)—While Jesus said we will "always have the poor" with us, "if each of us stops on his or her own journey to help a neighbor in need, the kingdom of God will come closer to realization each day," said Bishop George V. Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, in a ... Thursday, February 02, 2012 Bishop: Reducing Poverty Will Help Bring About the Kingdom Thursday, February 02, 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Both houses of Congress have been working on a new farm bill, as the current farm bill expires Sept. 30. That would seem to leave a lot of time for the bill to get through Congress, even one as polarized as this one is. Wednesday, June 20, 2012 Can Farm Bill Break the Pattern of Paralysis in Congress? Wednesday, June 20, 2012	Intense and committed, they’ve been likened to anti-war protesters of the 1960s.  But huddled around fires in tent-city encampments, they look more like the jobless, itinerant masses of the ‘30s. Tuesday, November 22, 2011 Friars Respond to Occupy Movement Tuesday, November 22, 2011
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Five U.S. Catholic clergy and lay leaders said they want to work with lawmakers for a new farm bill that "provides for poor and hungry people both at home and abroad, offers effective support for those who grow our food, ensures fairness to family farmers and ranchers, and promotes stewardship ... Monday, March 12, 2012 Catholic Leaders: Farm Bill Can Help Hungry, Farmers, Rural US Monday, March 12, 2012	WASHINGTON (CNS)—Two weeks before the Thanksgiving Day feast, Gwen Stroy was counting her blessings. Saturday, November 12, 2011 Pantry Counts Blessings, Wishes More Could Be Done Saturday, November 12, 2011

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The 1986 pastoral letter, promulgated by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, addresses the U.S. economy and the principles of Catholic social teaching within the U.S. context. The letter stressed that the measure of our economy is not only what it produces, but also how it touches human life, whether ... Monday, November 10, 2008 ‘Economic Justice for All: Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy’ From U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1986.	The 1995 U.S. Catholic bishops’ pastoral message, written on the 10th anniversary of the pastoral letter, “Economic Justice for All,” calls upon the Catholic community to: “look back at the economic letter and its major themes; look around at the U.S. economy a decade later, noting progress and continuing progress and ... Monday, November 10, 2008 ‘A Decade After “Economic Justice for All”: Continuing Principles, Changing Context, New Challenges’ From U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 1995
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Here at a glance are the highlights of the pastoral letter "Economic Justice for All," approved by the U.S. Catholic bishops in 1986. Monday, November 10, 2008 U.S. bishops' ‘Economic Justice for All’ at a glance From Catholic News Service	WASHINGTON (CNS)—As U.S. residents struggle to make sense of the dramatic downturn in the economy, scholars and clergy are revisiting a 22-year-old pastoral letter written by the U.S. Catholic bishops promoting an economic policy that reins in unbridled consumerism and a lust for material riches and advocates the theology of sharing ... Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1986 economic pastoral revisited in face of financial meltdown From Catholic News Service