Catholic Conference Calls for Preferential Option for the Poor in Next Year’s Budget
News Release / Posted May 6, 2009
MCC Vice President for Public Policy Paul A. Long made the following comments on yesterday’s legislative activity that saw over $300 million cut from the current fiscal year budget to balance the state’s $1.3 billion deficit.
News Release / Posted April 29, 2009
Earlier this year the Obama administration announced plans to rescind recently implemented regulations that provide conscience protections for individual and institutional health care providers, and today the Michigan Catholic Conference welcomed a state Senate resolution expressing the body’s opposition to the administration’s plan.
News Release / Posted March 12, 2009
Michigan Catholic Conference has expressed significant reservations about the interests of Senators Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin to work for the quality and safe education of all students, especially the poor. The Conference’s concern follows the votes of Michigan’s two U.S. senators against an amendment that sought to protect the D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program.
News Release / Posted March 9, 2009
Michigan Catholic Conference Vice President for Public Policy Paul A. Long released the following statement regarding an executive order to be issued by President Obama that permits federal tax-payer funding of embryonic stem cell research.
News Release / Posted March 2, 2009
Michigan Catholic Conference Vice President for Public Policy Paul Long made the following statement regarding a study in the online journal Nature, and reported in the Washington Post, that stem cell researchers have discovered an additional way to pursue stem cell research while avoiding the destruction of embryos.
News Release / Posted February 3, 2009
For two years low-income Michigan workers have been told by the State that tax relief is on its way, but now some elected officials are calling for this tax relief to be halted.
News Release / Posted January 28, 2009
On behalf of the 269 Catholic schools in the state, Michigan Catholic Conference today welcomed the adoption of Senate Resolution 4, which recognizes Catholic Schools Week and the role Catholic schools play throughout the State of Michigan.
Efforts to Protect Critical State Programs, Restrict Embryo Destruction, Top MCC Agenda
News Release / Posted January 26, 2009
Recognizing the tremendous budget difficulties that lie ahead, Michigan Catholic Conference today announced that protecting statewide programs that benefit Michigan’s poor population will top its advocacy efforts during the 95th legislative session. The Conference will also lend its support to any legislation that limits and regulates the destruction of human embryos following the passage of Proposal 2 in November.
“A legacy of kindness and strong public policy advocacy for the voiceless,’ says MCC President of Cardinal Maida
News Release / Posted January 5, 2009
The Most Reverend Allen H. Vigneron, Bishop of the Diocese of Oakland and former auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit, will soon become the fourth chairman of the Michigan Catholic Conference Board of Directors following an announcement from the Vatican today that Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of His Eminence Adam Cardinal Maida, Archbishop of Detroit, and has appointed Archbishop-elect Vigneron as his successor.
News Release / Posted November 5, 2008
According to Paul Long, Vice President for Public Policy: “Enshrining in the state constitution a measure that prohibits the legislature from enacting any oversight or accountability measures related to the destruction of human embryos has unsettling consequences for the future.”