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President Joe Biden, joined by Special Envoy for Climate John Kerry, Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Director of the National Economic Council Brian Deese, attends the Leaders Summit on Climate April 22 in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House photo/Adam Schultz)
Cleveland Faith-based organizations working to address climate change and strengthen creation care initiatives are being heard again by the federal government.
Since President Joe Biden took office Jan. 20 and began shifting federal priorities toward achieving a greener country and addressing environmental justice in poor, minority and Indigenous communities, the organizations see a new opening for cooperation and dialogue.
Vice president Kamala Harris and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., listen to President Joe Biden addresses to a joint session of Congress in the House chamber of the U.S. Capitol in Washington April 28, 2021. (CNS photo/Jim Watson, Pool via Reuters) Apr. 29, 2021 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – In his first major address to Congress as U.S. president, Joe Biden urged Republicans and Democrats April 28 to work together as the country emerges from a pandemic but still faces threats from countries such as China. We can t be so busy competing with each other that we forget the competition with the rest of the world, said Biden, who seemed to be addressing not just the nation, but also the democracies of the world.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden meets Pope Francis after both leaders spoke at a conference on adult stem cell research at the Vatican April 29. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
As Joseph R. Biden Jr., the second Catholic president in U.S. history, continues to fill out his administration, a number of important executive and ambassadorial nominees will go before the Senate. One position of particular interest for American Catholics is the U.S. ambassadorship to the Holy See.
Since 1984, the United States and the Holy See have maintained formal diplomatic relations, building on a fraught history of relations going back to the Washington administration. Mr. Biden, who keeps a photo of himself and Pope Francis on a table behind his desk in the Oval Office, is likely to consider several factors in his decision, including what priorities Mr. Biden would seek to emphasize with the Holy See, the expertise and familiarity with the church of the candidates and what message Mr. Biden wants to send to
Group seeks stepped up reunification of border families
A mother from Guatemala seeking asylum in the U.S. kisses her 3-month-old baby while waiting to be escorted by Border Patrol agents in Roma, Texas, April 7, 2021, after crossing the Rio Grande into the United States. (CNS photo/Go Nakamura, Reuters)
By Mark Pattison • Catholic News Service • Posted April 9, 2021
WASHINGTON (CNS) An interfaith collection of religious activists is asking the Biden administration to step up the pace of family reunification to remedy the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” policy that separated an estimated 5,500 immigrant children from their families by invoking criminal proceedings against their parents.