A week before the start of the legislative session, Catholic leaders said the use of vaccines is “not immoral according to church guidance.”
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Young woman sees mapping Catholic lands as an environmental blessing
If modern mapping can help the church manage its vast lands in environmentally sustainable ways, she thinks the planet and its inhabitants will benefit from a cleaner, healthier and more just global environment.
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CT GOP candidates prescribe over-the-counter birth control pills
WASHINGTON – To counter Democratic attacks that they are soldiers in a “war against women” some GOP candidates across the nation, including at least two in Connecticut, are advocating for changing federal laws to allow the purchase of over-the-counter birth control.
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Rep. Larry Miller dies, made his illness a cause for science
Rep. Lawrence G. Miller, R-Stratford, died Sunday after a battle with cancer, one that Miller discussed a decade ago in advocating support for stem cell research and again in 2011 when he backed an effort to bank umbilical cord blood. An active Catholic, he said the Church was wrong in opposing embryonic stem cell research.