Washington, D.C. Beat

“A tariff is a tax,” said Jesuit Father Stephen Pitts, professor of economics at Marquette University. “And so the question with any tax is, who will bear it?”

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Catholic and the first woman elected to that role, announced Nov. 6 she will not seek re-election to Congress in 2026.

Catholic bishops are among those who have acknowledged points of tension between the Trump administration’s immigration policy and religious liberty.

Although the American public came to view the Iraq War as a disaster, Vice President Dick Cheney consistently defended the decision.

In fiscal year 2023, 79% of SNAP recipient households included either a child, an elderly individual or a nonelderly individual with a disability.

Violence against Christians has escalated in recent years from Islamic extremist groups but Muslim communities have also been hit hard by the violence.

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to make SNAP payments Oct. 31; Trump also ordered the U.S. military to resume nuclear testing after a pause of more than three …

The Trump administration indicated it would limit the number of refugees annually admitted to the U.S. to 7,500, with a preference for white South Africans.

The Trump administration had previously argued that it could not use the contingency funds for the program, despite previous precedent.

“For low-income families and individuals who rely on SNAP and WIC to put food on their tables, this could be a catastrophic moment.”