Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell, the former executive director of the Catholic social justice lobby Network, will be awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden at the White House July 7.
While gearing up for the inauguration of Joe Biden, whose vice president will be a Black woman and who has already promised to expand the number of refugees next year by a factor of 10, religious activists on the left are wrestling with how to keep their momentum.
The letter accuses "some elected officials" of making "the immoral choice to hold onto power at any cost, including disenfranchising thousands, denying their most sacred gift: their voice."
Looking back on her career, as she has become a fixture on Capitol Hill, Social Service Sr. Simone Campbell said the clear highlight was her work in helping secure the support for the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
For decades, Roman Catholic voters have been a pivotal swing vote in U.S. presidential elections, with a majority backing the winner — whether Republican or Democrat — nearly every time.
Groups that support immigrants have lodged a complaint with the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General saying that a nurse has come forward with detailed allegations of mass hysterectomies she said have been performed on immigrant women in detention in a Georgia facility.
Your thoughts: Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, made the historic announcement that Sen. Kamala Harris was his vice president pick, the first woman of color to be on a major party presidential ticket.
Distinctly Catholic: At a time when the incompetence of the White House is obvious, the Democrats at least showed they could mount an entirely different kind of convention and make it work.
