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Demonstrators march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City Sept. 20, 2024, to call for an end to the era of fossil fuels (OSV News photo/Shannon Stapleton, Reuters)

Catholic climate policy advocates express concern about Trump proposals

President-elect Donald Trump Jan. 7 reiterated his call for some companies that make investments in the U.S. economy to bypass some environmental regulations. 
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Franciscan Father Paolo Benanti, an adviser to Pope Francis on ethics and technology, talks with Microsoft President Brad Smith about ethics and artificial intelligence during an event on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., July 23, 2024. Father Benanti is a member of the United Nations’ advisory body on artificial intelligence.

Papal adviser, head of Microsoft talk ethics and AI in conversation

Dozens of technologists and Catholics gathered at Microsoft in Redmond for a conversation about ethics in artificial intelligence between an "unlikely pair," as they were introduced: a papal adviser and the head of Microsoft.
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Father Dan Riley and Stephen Copeland

The Franciscan Friar Who Taught Me To Read

There’s a line from the poet Robert Lax that would always make my dear friend, Fr. Dan Riley, choke up. That line was this: “We rose and came to the field.”
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Biden calls for sweeping changes to high court, including term limits and enforceable ethics code

President Joe Biden July 29 called for legislation and a constitutional amendment that would result in massive changes to the U.S. Supreme Court, including term limits for justices and an enforceable ethics code.
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Melted chairs are shown outside the burned Maligne Lodge July 26, 2024, after wildfires encroached into Jasper, Alberta, in the overnight hours of July 24 and 25. Archbishop Richard W. Smith of Edmonton, Alberta, conveyed his "sorrow, solidarity and support to the people of Jasper and the parish community of Our Lady of Lourdes" in a July 25 statement.

Archbishop prays for residents, tourists in Canadian Rockies town devastated by wildfires

Edmonton Archbishop Richard W. Smith's heart is with the people of Jasper, Alberta, and tourists forced to evacuate from the wildfire devastating the small alpine town and the neighboring famous Jasper National Park in the overnight hours of July 24 ...
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Migrant children taking part in a caravan toward Mexico's northern border rest at a school in Los Corazones, Oaxaca state, Mexico, Jan. 8, 2024. The U.S. Justice Department has found that the largest housing provider for unaccompanied migrant children had systemic sexual abuse and harassment of children in its care. (OSV News photo/Jacob Garcia, Reuters)

Advocates ‘troubled’ by alleged abuse of migrant kids in US-funded shelters

Catholic immigration and anti-trafficking advocates are expressing grave concern over alleged systemic sexual abuse of unaccompanied migrant children by staff of a private contractor for the U.S. government.
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Comedian Bob Newhart cracks up Carmen Nanko and Father Robert Friday with a joke about the rain falling on the graduation ceremony May 21,1997 at The Catholic University of America. (OSV News photo/Catholic University of America, CNS archive)

Remembering Catholic comedian Bob Newhart

About the same time Chicago-area native George Robert Newhart was inching his way from an accounting job toward a career in comedy, his older sister Joan was professing her final vows as a Sister of Charity of the Blessed Virgin ...
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