Excited to be at the @WhiteHouse for today’s Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony with Sr. Maribeth Larkin, General Director of @service_sisters, lifting up our community’s advocacy for peace and justice for the common good
Good morning! ☀️
Today, @Sr_Simone, NETWORK’s former Executive Director will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from @POTUS. Stay tuned for updates!
Before the expanded #ChildTaxCredit expired in January, it:
✅ Reduced child poverty
✅ Slashed hunger
✅ Helped parents deal with rising prices
✅ Reached 40 million families and 65 million children.
The Senate needs to #ExpandCTC!
Slavery is all around us. It has been linked to many everyday products.
Everything from shoes to cellphones, chocolate bars to cotton shirts, have been linked to slave labor.
Click to learn more:
freedomunited.org/freedom-univer…
"When Catholics think about how they can live out the values of their faith through their politics, protecting their democracy is probably not the first thing that comes to mind. But it should be." - Congresswoman @vgescobar
Read more: ed.gr/d5kq8
Congratulations to my friend Sister Simone Campbell, SSS @sr_simone of @NETWORKLobby and #NunsontheBus for being named a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President @JoeBiden for her decades of ministry with the poor and on behalf of justice!
🚨BREAKING 🚨Today, the right-wing majority of the Supreme Court struck a blow to the government’s ability to fight climate change and protect clean air: npr.org/2022/06/30/110…
A quick personal announcement: @POTUS has appointed me to serve on the US Commission on International Religious Freedom (@USCIRF). I'm honored by the appointment to engage in this critical work. whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
Six years ago 49 people were killed at #Pulse, a gay nightclub. At the time. it was the largest mass shooting in US history. Yet few Catholic leaders said anything. Even in death the LGBTQ community was largely invisible to the church. A remembrance: youtube.com/watch?v=Ff6_sh…