Mercy Sister testifies against building immigrant detention center

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Mercy Sister JoAnne Persch of Chicago was one of the testifiers supporting legislation that would block a proposed immigrant detention center that would be built by a private company in Crete, a suburb of Chicago. The House Executive Committee approved the measure with a 7-4 vote. Sister JoAnne asks continued prayers as SB 1064 now goes to the full Illinois House for a vote next week.
The bill is sponsored by Reps. Edward Acevedo (D-Chicago) and Elizabeth Hernandez (D-Cicero).
 

Sister Mary Ellen Howard Speaks Out for the new healthcare law

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY OBAMACARE!

On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), landmark legislation designed to provide coverage for more than half of the nation’s 52 million uninsured citizens, and to address abuses in the insurance industry.  The law is being implemented gradually.  The uninsured poor have to wait until January 1, 2014 before Medicaid will be expanded.  Until then, they will continue to defer care, or to seek it at free clinics and hospital ERs.

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Sacramento Exhibit Celebrates Contributions of Catholic Sisters and Nuns

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 women-spirit-press9sm1    KQED blog

Sister Katherine Doyle of Auburn,CA, is featured in this KQED article on Women & Spirit: Catholic Sisters in America. "The story of America's Roman Catholic nuns and sisters remains largely untold. Now a first-of-its kind exhibit at the California Museum in Sacramento aims to change that. " For more

http://blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2012/03/13/sacramento-exhibit-celebrates-contributions-of-catholic-sisters-and-nuns/

 
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