In his 2015 Labor Day statement, Archbishop Thomas G. Wenski of Miami, chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, cited the importance of work in supporting families.
In the wake of highly publicized investigative videos involving the procurement and sale of fetal tissue from aborted fetuses by Planned Parenthood clinics in other states, Governor Rick Scott requested that the Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) evaluate Florida's Planned Parenthood facilities.
In a letter to Cardinals Turkson and Koch, heads of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the Pontifical Council for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Pope Francis expressed his desire to institute the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, a day specifically set aside to ask God's blessings on, and offer thanks for, our "common home."
A special session called by the Florida legislature to redraw our state's congressional districts came to an end Friday, August 21 without a resolution. A breakdown in negotiations between the Florida House and Senate may result in the courts drawing the final maps.
As a nation we incarcerate more of our population than any other Western country, more than even the Soviet Union did. Today, the United States has more than 2.2 million people in prison on any given day — and in the course of a year some 13.5 million passed through our correctional institutions. In Florida, our state prisons, which house some 100,000 people, have been tainted by scandals in recent years — with various allegations of prisoner abuse and even murder by guards still being investigated.