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Berlusconi Aide Meets With Pope Amid Scandal Fallout: Relations Still "Solid"

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 10.22.2009 | World

Read More: Silvio Berlusconi Scandal, Italy, Berlusconi, Catholic Church, Silvio Berlusconi, Pope Benedict XVI, Italian Politics, World News

ROME — Premier Silvio Berlusconi's top aide met with Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday amid continuing fallout over scandals that have strained ties b...

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Marriage Equality Is on the Ballot in Maine This Fall (Video)

Jesse Connolly | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Lgbt, Catholic Church, Proposition 8, Gay Rights, National Organization for Marriage, Main, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Tv Ads, John Baldacci, Marriage Equality, Politics News

Our opponents are tenacious -- and well-funded. The anti-marriage campaign in Maine is being led by the same groups that ran the Yes on Proposition 8 campaign in California last year.

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Catholic Church Tells Couples To Pray Before Sex

Mail Online | Posted 10.18.2009 | World

Read More: Prayer Before Making Love, Prayer Sex, Roman Catholic Church, Catholic Church, Religion Sex, Couples Making Love, Sex, Couples Having Sex, Catholic Couples Having Sex, World News

Roman Catholic couples are being encouraged to pray together before they have sex. A book published by a prominent Church group invites those setting ...

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Catholic Church Supports D.C. Gay Marriage Ban

The Huffington Post | Elyse Siegel | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Washington DC, Archdiocese, A Man and a Woman, Ban on Gay Marriages, Gay Marriage, Politics News

Via Politico comes news that the archdiocese of Washington D.C. has officially affirmed its support of the "Marriage Initiative of 2009," banning gay ...

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Senator Ted Kennedy's Leadership on LGBT Issues: A Model for Progressive Catholics

Marianne Duddy-Burke | Posted 10.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Ted Kennedy Catholic, LGBT Rights, Lgbt, Ted Kennedy Lgbt, Ted Kennedy Dead, Ted Kennedy, Politics News

Who will be the kind of leader who would stand up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) concerns like Kennedy did? We lost a loyal friend and a powerful advocate.

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RIP Robert Novak

Ron Mwangaguhunga | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media

Read More: Robert Novak, Catholic Church, Town Hall Debate, Jack Kemp, Catholicism, Capital Gains Taxes, George W. Bush, Born-Again-Christians, Republican-Values, Republican Party, Town Hall Meetings, Media News

Novak, aware of that natural weakness in his personality, never tired of seeking a more harmonious sense of being. That, I think, is what made Novak ultimately a good man.

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Let the Money Laundering Begin

Fred Karger | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Mormon Church, California Gay Marriage, Californians Against Hate, National Organization for Marriage, Maine Gay Marriage, Focus on the Family, Gay Marriage, Prop 8, No on Prop 8, Prop 8 Protests, Yes on Prop 8 Mormons, Same-Sex Marriage, LGBT Politics, Lgbt, Yes on Prop 8, Mormon Prop 8, LGBT Community, LGBT Youth, Maine-Same-Sex-Marriage, LGBT Rights, Gay-Rights-Mormon-Church, Fundraising, Mormon Church Gay Marriage, Mormon Church Prop 8, Politics News

The Mormon Church has been destroying lives, intimidating people and demonizing an entire class to solidify their base and raise millions and millions of dollars.

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Ireland: Catholic Child Abuse Reports In Future May Be Censored

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

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DUBLIN — Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication coul...

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Pope: My 'Guardian Angel' Let Me Down

AP | Posted 08.29.2009 | World

LES COMBES, Italy — Pope Benedict XVI said Wednesday that his guardian angel was clearly acting "on superior orders" when he let the pontiff fal...

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Anglican Church: LGBT Recognition Raises Possibility Of 'Two Track' Structure

AP | MEERA SELVA | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: England, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Anglican Church, Global Anglicanism, Lgbt, LGBT Rights, LGBT Issues, LGBT Politics, LGBT Community, Anglican Church LGBT, Catholic Church, Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, World News

LONDON — The worldwide Anglican Communion may have to accept a "two track" system in which churches can hold different opinions about gay clergy...

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Nicaragua Abortion Ban Forces Rape, Incest Victims To Give Birth

Huffington Post | Posted 08.27.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Abortion, Nicaragua Abortion Ban, Latin America, Catholicism, Abortion Rights, Foreign Affairs, Catholic, Catholic Abortion, Nicaragua, Advocacy, World News

In predominantly Catholic Nicaragua, an all-out ban on abortion, regardless of any potential risk childbirth poses to the mother, is drawing fire from...

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Vatican Investigates Legionaries Of Christ

Global Post | Jason Berry | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, Priest Allegations, Vatican Investigation, Investigations in the Vatican, Bishops Appointed to Investigate, Religious Investigations, Religious Allegations, Vatican News, Pope Benedict, Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church Investigation, World News

ROME -- Pope Benedict XVI recently appointed five bishops from as many countries to investigate the Legionaries of Christ, a religious order founded i...

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The Catholic Church Vs. The Women of Brazil

Vicky Shorr | Posted 08.16.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil, Reproductive Rights, Brazilian Women, Reproductive Health, Cytotec, World News

The Church in Brazil is manned by the likes of the Archbishop of Recife, whose latest idea of social activism was to ex-communicate the mother of a nine-year-old rape victim, who got the child an abortion.

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At the Vatican, a Democrat Who Gets It

Chris Korzen | Posted 08.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Democratic Party, Pope Benedict XVI, Barack Obama, Politics News

Had their disagreements precluded a meeting, the fertile common ground that the pope and the president share on values like economic justice, health care and workers' rights would lie fallow.

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Pope On Economy: World Needs New Financial Order

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 08.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Catholic Church, The Pope, Charity in Truth, Vatican, The Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI, Business News

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI called Tuesday for a new world financial order guided by ethics and the search for the common good, denouncing ...

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U.S. Nuns Facing Sweeping Vatican Investigation

The New York Times | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Second Vatican Council, Catholic Church, Religion, Apostolic Visitation, Roman Catholic Church, Catholicism, Catholic Nuns, Inquisition, Vatican, Pope, Jesuits, Pope Benedict XVI, Politics News

The Vatican is quietly conducting two sweeping investigations of American nuns, a development that has startled and dismayed nuns who fear they are th...

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Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Brazilian Bishop Involved In 9-Year-Old Abortion Controversy, Retires

AP | Posted 08.01.2009 | World

Read More: Brazil, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Catholic Church, Catholic, Catholicism, Archbishop Jose Cardoso Sobrinho, Pope, Pope Benedict XVI, World News

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican has announced the retirement of a Brazilian archbishop who caused a major stir when he declared that those involved i...

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California "Yes On 8" Campaign Manager Goes To Maine

AMERICA blog | Posted 07.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: California Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, California, Catholic Church, Proposition 8, Frank Schubert, Maine Gay Marriage, Marc Mutty, Anti-Gay Marriage, Gay Marriage, Marriage Equality, Maine, Politics News

Big news from Maine. On the plus side, the campaign to save Maine's marriage law has been launched -- and they've got a kick-ass campaign manager lead...

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Vatican Rejects Conservative Group's Ordinations

AP | ARIEL DAVID | Posted 07.18.2009 | World

Read More: Society of St. Pius X, Christianity, Vatican Conservative Ordinations, Vatican, Catholic Church, World News

VATICAN CITY — Priest ordinations planned by an ultraconservative group won't be legitimate even though Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommu...

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Why I Don't Volunteer

Daniel Cubias | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Latinos, Population Growth, Cultural Norms, Volunteering, Charity, Immigration, Birth Control, Hispanics, Condoms, Barrio, Politics News

Among my numerous flaws is the fact that I'm not very charitable. Yes, I give money to worthy causes, but I'm stingy with my time. My wife does volunt...

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Vatican China Envoy Joseph Zen Takes Tougher Stand On Freedoms

AP | NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.17.2009 | World

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VATICAN CITY — The Vatican's top envoy for China says the time has come for the Holy See to get tough with Beijing and not compromise over relig...

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Wanda Poltawska, John Paul II Book Author, Responds To Church Criticism

AP | MONIKA SCISLOWSKA and NICOLE WINFIELD | Posted 07.13.2009 | World

WARSAW, Poland — To him, she was "My Dear Dusia" and he signed his letters "Br" _ short for brother. She was one of a handful of people by his ...

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How the Catholic Church Fought for Interracial Marriage and What It Means for Gay Rights

Blaise Zerega | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Political News, Catholic Church, fora.tv, California Gay Marriage, Proposition 8, Interracial Marriage, Gay Marriage, Politics News

It was the Catholic Church that stepped forward to successfully challenge anti-miscegenation law. How much longer before the law of the land applies to all its citizens, gay and straight alike?

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Picketing President Obama Is the Wrong Way to Get Blacks to Back Gay Marriage

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mormons Gay Marriage, Christian Fundamentalisst Groups, Catholic Church, Proposition 8, Initiatives, Presdient Obama, Reggie White, Black Ministers, Gay Marriage, Naacp, Politics News

Many, perhaps the majority of blacks, can be won to back same sex marriage as a paramount civil rights issue. Because that's what it is. But picketing President Obama is the absolute wrong way to get them to do that.

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Ireland To Demand Catholic Church Pay Additional Reparations For Child Abuses

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 06.26.2009 | World

Read More: Ireland, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Religion, Catholic Church, Catholic Child Abuse, Child Abuse, Irish Catholics, Irish Catholic Child Abuse, Brian Cowen, Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse, World News

DUBLIN — Ireland's government announced Tuesday it will summon Roman Catholic orders and demand they contribute more funds to the thousands of p...

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