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In 2008, Joe Biden became the first Catholic to be elected Vice President of the United States. His successor Mike Pence was raised as a Catholic but converted to evangelical Protestantism. In 2020, Biden was elected the second Catholic president of the United States. Two First Ladies (Jacqueline Kennedy and Melania Trump) have been professed ...
These declarations laid the foundation of Catholic social teaching, which rejected both capitalism and communism. [4] In terms of political development, Catholic social teaching endorsed democracy on the condition that it constitutes a protection of human dignity and the moral law, and valued common good over individualism. [1]
On one side are more centrist or measured voices, like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ statement expressing concern about Trump’s early executive actions harming “the most ...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is the United States largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group, originally established to promote a positive image of Islam and Muslims in America. CAIR portrays itself as the voice of mainstream, moderate Islam on Capitol Hill and in political arenas throughout the United States.
Catholic political philosophy (4 P) Catholicism and far-left politics (2 C, 28 P) ... Catholic Church and politics in the United States This page was last ...
The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and five of its priests whose legal status in the United States expires as soon as next spring, have now sued the federal agencies overseeing immigration.
[4] [5] In the prologue, Blanshard said that he was not opposed to the Catholic religion or to Catholic Americans, but that the church's hierarchy had an undue influence on legislation, education and medical practice. The book began as a controversial series of articles in The Nation that set the Archbishop of New York against Eleanor Roosevelt ...
In 1993 the group became much more aggressive with a new president, the former sociology professor Bill Donohue, who also increased its size to become the largest Catholic advocacy organization in the US. [4] The Catholic League is known for press releases about what it views as anti-Catholic and anti-Christian themes in mass media.