Sisters Speak Out June 24

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Sisters Speak Out June 24
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CATHOLIC SISTERS SPEAK OUT AGAINST INHUMANE BUDGETSisters call on Congress to reject spending cuts, cruel immigration policiesFor more than a century, Catholic Sisters have been at the forefront of serving vulnerable communities in the United States through ministries of healthcare, education, and social services. They sponsor many of the nation’s largest Catholic hospital systems, universities, and social services agencies. They witness daily to the struggles faced by these vulnerable people, and how they will be harmed by these inhumane, unprecedented cuts to social safety net programs—paired with billions in proposed new spending to target and deport hardworking immigrant families— all to extend tax cuts that help a small group of the wealthiest Americans.

ON JUNE 24 Catholic Sisters will travel from convents across the country to speak out at the U.S. Capitol to pray and express their outrage over the draconian budget cuts. Sisters from over fifty congregation will gather at 10 a.m. for prayer and a press conference. They will be joined by social justice groups and concerned people of faith, to urge the Senate to reject steep budget cuts that will gut healthcare and food assistance, inflicting serious harm on families, children, the elderly and disabled, and to oppose the massive increase in spending for inhumane roundup of immigrants, deportation without due process, and cruel family separation.

PRESS CONFERENCE SPEAKERSSister Norma Pimentel, MJ, of the Missionaries of Jesus, and Executive Director of Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley, will speak at the press conference on the proposed $150 billion in new immigration enforcement spending. For three decades, Sr. Niorma has provided critical support to migrants seeking refuge in the United States along Texas’ border with Mexico. In recognition of her ministry, she was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people in 2020.

Sister Mary Haddad, RSM, of the Sisters of Mercy of the Americas, is President and CEO of Catholic Health Care Association of the United States, also will speak at the event to decry cuts to Medicaid.

Sister Maggie Gannon, OSF, a Sister of St Francis of Philadelphia, is a co-founder of ACCESS Community Center in Chester, Pennsylvania, which serves families who live in an area that is a food desert with no hospital, where people face real fear about growing food insecurity that will result from the cuts to the SNAP food assistance program.

Sister Reg McKillip, OP, of the Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa WI serves as the Promoter of Peace and Justice for her Congregation.

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