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Portland, Maine, Apr 15, 2018 / 04:01 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The word ‘hermit’ might conjure up some strange images, a la John the Baptist living reclusively in the desert, wearing a hair shirt and eating locusts and honey. The word itself comes from the Greek ‘eremos’, meaning wilderness or an isolated place. The vocation of a hermit became most popular among early Christians, who, inspired by Old Testament saints such as Elijah and John the Baptist, desired to live a life set apart and therefore withdrew into the desert in order to live lives of prayer and penance. But the vocation is...

Local Catholic association supports physicians in their vocation Founded in the 1950s, the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild ‘allows men and women of faith to share with courage and knowledge church teaching in the world,’ says guild chaplain Dr. Saad Jazrawi, president of the Portland Catholic Physicians Guild, holds daughter Samar, age 7 months, during a dinner following the annual White Mass for Catholic health care workers in 2019. “If I combine my faith and my work, I’m a better Catholic and a better physician,” said Jazrawi. (Ed Langlois/Cat...

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, speaks during a hearing to examine the nomination of Shalanda Young to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, ... more > By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times - Friday, March 5, 2021 Far-left activists are furious with the “corporate Democrats” that sided with Republicans against Sen. Bernard Sanders’ latest push to raise the federal minimum wage to $1...

A number of Republicans have said a wage hike isn’t centrally about the budget, so it cannot be tacked on to the budget coronavirus package Congress is writing. But CBO Director Phillip L. Swagel said in a letter to Mr. Sanders that a wage hike affects “a broader range of budget functions” than some things the GOP has pushed through the budget process in years past, including opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge up for oil exploration or zeroing out the Obamacare penalty in the 2017 tax cuts. Mr. Sanders, a Vermont independent who serves as Democrats’ chair on the Senate Budget...

Washington Times (DC) The Congressional Budget Office has given a boost to Sen. Bernard Sanders’ push to use the budget process to raise the federal minimum wage to $15 an hour with a new analysis Monday showing the move would have significant effects throughout the federal fiscal picture. CBO said changing the minimum wage would affect health care spending, unemployment benefits, Social Security, tax revenue and other parts of the budget. That matters because the ability of Democrats to include a wage hike in the budget depends on a ruling by the Senate parliamentarian, which turns in part...