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USCCB welcomes stricter environmental regulations on infrastructure projects

April 29, 2022

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CWN Editor's Note: Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, the chairman of the US bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, welcomed the Biden administration’s decision to restore stricter environmental regulations on infrastructure projects. In 2020, the Trump administration scaled back the regulations.

Citing Pope Francis’s 2015 encyclical Laudato si’ , Archbishop Coakley said that the Biden administration’s decision “is an opportunity to design infrastructure projects that promote authentic human development and stewardship of creation.”

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Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Jerome Emiliani, Priest; Opt Mem of St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin

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Today is Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time. The Church offers two Optional Memorials for today: —St. Jerome Emiliani (1481-1537) was born in Venice in 1486. He converted to Christianity after a rather dissolute youth, and dedicated himself to the service of the poor, the sick, and…

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