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Abortion     Brad Henry: Provide patients with materials about pain and unborn child.     Joe Dorman: Provide patients with materials about pain and unborn child.     Pope Francis: Quiet commitment to the defense of unborn life.     Pope Francis: Protecting the unborn is a form of social justice.     Tim Kaine: Restricted funding for fetal & embryonic stem cell research.     Scott Pruitt: Provide patients with materials about pain and unborn child.

Civil Rights     Pope Francis: Same-sex unions threaten the family.

Foreign Policy     Barack Obama: Haiti earthquake: Americans unite in times of trouble.     Donald Trump: Recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.     Hillary Clinton: All countries should recognize non-state-run religions.     Hillary Clinton: Egypt's Muslim government should recognize Coptic Christians.     Pope Francis: Declaring Jerusalem as Israel's capital destabilizes Mideast.

Immigration     Amy Coney Barrett: Counting undocumented is long-standing Census practice.     Maria Elvira Salazar: Secure border but give visas to those come legally.     Pope Francis: Building walls instead of building bridges is not Christian.     Pope Francis: Must count undocumented people in US Census.

Principles & Values     Pope Francis: Religious role in societal shifts, not just culture wars.     Maura Healey: Faith leaders should work with others on climate change.

Tax Reform     Pope Francis: The church is not an NGO; focus on grace, not wealth.

War & Peace     Hillary Clinton: Founded Mother Teresa Home for Infant Children in DC.

Welfare & Poverty     Pope Francis: Meaning of economic activity is well-being of humanity.

Click for quotations from other sources by: Amy Coney Barrett Republican appointee to Supreme Court Barack Obama Illinois Democratic President Brad Henry Oklahoma Previously Democratic Governor Donald Trump Republican former President Hillary Clinton Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Dorman Oklahoma Democratic Gubernatorial Challenger Maria Elvira Salazar Republican U.S. Rep Florida-27 Maura Healey Massachusetts Democratic candidate for Governor Pope Francis Leader of the Catholic Church Scott Pruitt EPA Director 2017-2018 Tim Kaine Virginia Democratic Nominee for Vice President