budget

Introducing Money, Meet Meaning

By Jonathan Woodward — April 16, 2024
Hosts Tom Levinson (Jewish) and Amber Hacker (Christian), along with guest Eboo Patel (Muslim), swap practical takeaways for our financial lives – taken straight from the stories of their respective religious traditions.

Fighting inflation with one hand tied behind your back

By Thomas Reese — May 9, 2023
(RNS) — Congress must act decisively to rationalize the budgetary process.

Proposed budget bill would add teeth to Trump’s Johnson Amendment order

By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 17, 2017
(RNS) — The U.S. House Appropriations Committee voted last week to keep language in the proposed budget bill that would add teeth to President Trump's May 4 executive order asking the IRS not to enforce the Johnson Amendment.

Cutting the US Institute of Peace is shortsighted and immoral

By Yonat Shimron — June 15, 2017
(RNS) As a community committed to loving our neighbor, and guided by a vision of a 'Just World for All,' the United Church of Christ stands against proposed cuts to programs like USIP.

Religious leaders urge Congress to protect foreign aid

By Adelle M. Banks — March 16, 2017
WASHINGTON (RNS) President Trump’s 2018 budget calls for $25.6 billion in funding for the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, a 28 percent decrease from the 2017 budget.

Why Christians should ditch monuments in favor of messages (COMMENTARY)

By Tom Ehrich — January 20, 2015
(RNS) As mainline churches adjust to declining membership and new forms of participation, the handsome space for Sunday worship is not only unaffordable, it also fails to meet emerging needs.

Catholics differ at “war on poverty” hearing

By Corrie Mitchell — July 31, 2013
WASHINGTON (RNS) At a House Budget committee hearing on Wednesday (July 31), the two prominent Catholics -- Rep. Paul Ryan, R. Wis., and Sister Simone Campbell -- had a chance to square off as the sister testified before Ryan’s committee about hardship in America as the nation nears the 50th anniversary of President Johnson’s 1964 declaration of the “War on Poverty.”

Interfaith clergy deliver loaves and fish to budget debate

By Caleb K. Bell — March 20, 2013
(RNS) Surrounded by baskets of fish and bread, with the Capitol at their backs, clergy attacked the Republican budget plan that came before the House on Wednesday.

European austerity measures reach the Vatican budget

By Alessandro Speciale — December 18, 2012
VATICAN CITY (RNS) The Vatican must adopt "effective" cost reduction measures in the wake of the global economic crisis, Pope Benedict XVI's No. 2 official warned on Tuesday (Dec. 18). By Alessandro Speciale

Sister Simone Campbell, âÂ?Â?Nun from the Bus,âÂ?Â? calls GOP budget âÂ?Â?immoralâÂ?Â?

By David Gibson — September 6, 2012

(RNS) Sister Simone Campbell, who became a celebrity of sorts this summer when she led the “Nuns on the Bus” tour for social justice, challenged the GOP in a rousing speech to the Democratic convention that called the Romney-Ryan budget plan “immoral.” By David Gibson.

Sister Simone Campbell, ‘Nun from the Bus,’ rips Republicans at Democratic convention

By David Gibson — September 6, 2012

(RNS) Paul Ryan has been taking a lot of heat over the factual accuracy of claims he made in his prime time address at the Republican convention last week, but Wednesday night at the Democratic confab the GOP vice-presidential candidate – and practicing Catholic – was schooled by a popular nun on the moral shortcomings of his budget proposals.

 

Catholics pray for Paul Ryan’s, Joe Biden’s change of heart

By Cathy Lynn Grossman — August 20, 2012

(RNS) Some Wisconsin Catholics are praying both Catholic vice presidential candidates will have a religious epiphany. They want GOP Rep. Paul Ryan to change his mind and heart about his deep-cuts budget and Vice President Biden to turn against abortion rights. By Cathy Lynn Grossman.

Catholic nuns’ bus tour concludes in nation’s capital

By Chris Lisee — July 2, 2012

WASHINGTON (RNS) A group of Catholic nuns ended its nine-state bus tour here Monday (July 2), speaking out against a Republican federal budget proposal they say favors wealthy Americans at the expense of poor families. By Chris Lisee.

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