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Faith leaders joined members of Congress on Capitol Hill Thursday to voice support for the expansion of the child tax credit, urging lawmakers to reinstate a broader version of the anti-poverty benefit before the end of the year.

“For many of us, this is a season of miracles—the miracle of Jesus’s birth, the miracle of Hanukkah,” said Abibat Rahman-Davies of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, a Quaker group. “But expanding the CTC? That shouldn’t take a miracle.”

When Andre Audette first arrived at Notre Dame for grad school, he got a brochure about living in South Bend, Indiana.

That brochure included a section on churches and advice on which Catholic parish to attend if you were conservative and which to attend if you were liberal.

While Audette ignored the brochure’s advice—choosing a different parish altogether—the link between church shopping and politics stuck with him.