<p dir="ltr">Thanks for this encouraging post.  Rosemary</p>
<br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025, 10:30 p.m. Martha Crean via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Dear Brian, </div><div dir="auto">thank you it sounds like the bishops really took to heart what the pope had to say about refugees. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 4:46 PM Tina Neves via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr">Thank you Brian<div>I forward it to some friends</div><div>It's unbelievable!!!!...but good to know that the Catholic Bishops take action....</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Feb 20, 2025 at 12:13 PM Brian Halferty via Sundaycommunity <<a href="mailto:sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">sundaycommunity@lists.integralshift.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif;font-size:16px"><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Hi Everyone,</div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif">Here, (attached), is another piece from the OCCUPY DEMOCRATS Facebook page.  It reports that the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has launched a "crushing lawsuit" against the US government. The lawsuit argues that the State Department has broken the law by freezing payments to support refugees, and that the USCCB, which is a recipient of government support with regard to several thousand refugees, is currently owed many millions of dollars for this work. The argument is that "<span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">the Trump freeze circumvents Congress's
Constitutional "power of the purse" in addition to numerous federal
laws."</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Good to see the Catholic bishops involved in this fight.</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Brian</span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></span></div><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></span></div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:"times new roman","new york",times,serif"><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:"new times",serif;font-size:16px"><b style="font-family:"new times",serif"><i style="font-family:"new times",serif"><font style="font-family:"new times",serif;color:rgb(76,118,162)">Brian Halferty</font></i></b></div></div></div></div></div>________________________________________<br>
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