HHS Mandate: Updated Action Alert

The USCCB has issued another action alert based on Friday's tweaking of the HHS Mandate. Please click here to be directed to the USCCB website, where you will have the opportunity to gather information and take action.

HHS Mandate: What's next?

As you may know, President Obama announced changes to the "contraceptive mandate" on Friday. What does this mean? According to the USCCB (whose statement is available here), it's too soon to tell. Let's continue to remember civility in dialogue and let's try to stick to the facts when discussing this. Making it liberal vs. conservative or Democrat vs. Republican is divisive and tends not to serve the cause of peace in our hearts.

Scholarship Program for Girls in Rwanda

Partners in Health is involved in a Women and Girls Initiative Scholarship Program to send 41 young women and girls back to school in rural Rwanda. Click here for more information.

Help for Battered Immigrant Women

On February 8, the Washington Post published an article by Pamela Constable, "For battered immigrant women, fear of deportation becomes abusers' weapon, but 2 laws can overcome that." This is an important and informative article about legal protection for immigrant women -- even undocumented immigrant women -- who suffer the trauma of abuse. Click here to read the article.

February Edition of "On the Line"

Pax Christi USA had issued the February edition of its newsletter, "On the Line." Click here to read it.

USCCB: Six Things Everyone Should Know About the HHS Mandate

Click here to visit the USCCB blog and to read the post, "Six Things Everyone Should Know About the HHS Mandate."

Civility in Discourse

The LCWR Global Concerns Committee's Winter 2012 "Resolutions to Action" focuses on "Civility in Discourse: A Franciscan Approach." It includes the Franciscan Action Network's F.R.A.N.C.I.S Commitment to Civility in Discourse -- Facilitate, Respect, Audit, Neutralize, Collaborate, Identify, Support. Click here to read the complete resolution and for personal reflection and action suggestions.