Catholic Church

Vatican Defends Excommunication Of Mother, Doctors Of 9-Year-Old Girl Who Had Abortion After Being Raped

AAP | Posted 04.07.2009 | World

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A senior Vatican cleric has defended the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a nine-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being r...

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Sex Abuse Claims Cost Chicago Archdiocese Nearly $100 Million

Crain's Chicago Business | Robert Herguth | Posted 04.04.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Chicago Archdiocese Sex Abuse, Religion, Chicago Catholic Church Sex Abuse Claims, Chicago Archdiocese, Chicago News

Sex abuse claims have cost the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago almost $100 million this decade, a church financial report shows. The sum reflects law...

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Catholic Extremists Swiftboat Sebelius

Cristina Page | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Abortion, Catholic Church, Obama's Cabinet, Anti-Abortion, Obama, Hhs, Pro-Life, Sebelius, Health and Human Services, Pro-Choice, Kathleen Sebelius Abortion, Obama Sebelius, Kathleen Sebelius, Sebelius Pro-Choice, Catholic, Christian Right, Sebelius Health and Human Services, Tom Coburn, Sebelius Abortion, Religious Right, Anti-Choice, Anti-Choice Movement, Politics News
Cristina Page

The Catholic Church may refer to pro-choice politicians as extremists but the majority of Catholic congregants agree with pro-choice politicians like Sebelius on reproductive issues.

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Indigeous People Ask: "Where is the Outrage?"

Tim Giago | Posted 03.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Elsie Boudreau, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Alaskans, Catholic Church, Jesuit Priests, Native Americans, Indian Affairs Committee Report, Diocese of San Diego, Alaska, Native American, Sexual Abuse, Indian Mission Boarding Schools, Jesuits, Oregon, Politics News
Tim Giago

When the victims of these heinous crimes were white, the horror was on every front page of every major newspaper and on the prime time news of every television station in America.

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Catholic Priest Wants Saintly Obama Candle Removed From Gift Shop

San Francisco Chronicle | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Tony La Torre, Obama Statue, Barack Obama, Politics News

He may be the Second Coming to many San Franciscans - but one local Catholic priest wants a popular prayer candle with President Obama's picture on it...

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Cuban Priest to Castro: Obama Changed America, Now "You Must Have the Courage to Change"

Yoani Sanchez | Posted 03.14.2009 | World

Read More: Hurricane Gustav, Human Rights, Catholic Church, Fidel Castro, Latin America, Politics, Hurricane Ike, Raul Castro, Cuba, World, Father Jose Conrado, Civil Rights, World News
Yoani Sanchez

In his small church, Father Conrado addressed Raul Castro. His speech had the tone of a petition, which cannot, should not, wait any longer.

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Whom Not to Marry

Christine Whelan | Posted 03.13.2009 | Style

Read More: Catholic Church, Christine Whelan, Maureen Dowd, Catholic, Relationship Advice, Love, Priest, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Ideas, Marriage, Relationships, Romance, Engagement, Style News
Christine Whelan

Last summer Maureen Dowd wrote a column entitled "An Ideal Husband" featuring love advice from Fr. Pat Connor, a 79-year-old Catholic priest based in Bordentown, NJ.

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Pope To Meet US Jewish Leaders

Jerusalem Post | HAVIV RETTIG GUR | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Controversy, Holocaust, Catholic Church, Benedict, Catholic, Vatican, Pope, World News

The furor between world Jewry and the Catholic Church appears to be on the mend since the church moved to distance itself from an ultra-conservative b...

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A Sign that Family Planning is Desperately Needed

Josh Ruxin | Posted 03.09.2009 | World

Read More: Public Health, U.S. Policies, Family Planning, Women's Health, Pepfar, President Obama, Rwanda, Public Schools, Women, Women's Issues, World, Sex Education, Catholic Church, Government, HIV/AIDS, Education, Economic Stimulus Package, Public Education Reform, Africa, HIV in Africa, Contraception, Global Gag Rule, HIV/AIDS Africa, Education Reform, Public Education, World News
Josh Ruxin

The so-called gag rule has been a tragic mistake in the real world, especially in Rwanda, where HIV/AIDS and unplanned pregnancies are rampant.

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Pope Asks Bishop To Recant Denial Of Holocaust

Spiegel Online | Posted 03.08.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Europe, Germany, Central Council of Jews in Germany, Christian Democrats Party, Richard Williamson, Holocaust Denial, Angela Merkel, Excommunicated Bishop Reinstated, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, Pope, World News

Pope Benedict XVI made it clear on Wednesday that he regrets the uproar caused by bringing a Holocaust-denying bishop, Richard Williamson, back into t...

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Vatican Condemns Italy's Decision In Right-To-Die Case

ANSA.it | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Catholic Church, Euthanasia, Italy, Eluana Englaro, The Vatican, Right-to-Die Case, Beppino Englaro, Pope, World News

A woman who has been in a vegetative state for 17 years has been moved to a clinic here where her feeding tube will be removed in accordance with an I...

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The Jewish Reaction to the Pope's Welcoming Back Holocaust Denying Bishop: Disproportionate!

Rabbi Irwin Kula | Posted 03.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Anti-Semitism, Jews, Holocaust, Judaism, Rome, Italy, Catholic, Pope Benedict, Religious Tolerance, Pope Benedict XVI, Catholic Church, Catholics, Religion, B'nai B'rith, Anti-Defamation League, The Vatican, Holocaust Deniers, Jewish, B'nai B'rith International, The Holocaust, American Jewish Committee, Vatican, Israel, International Jewish Commission, Pope, Living News
Rabbi Irwin Kula

How is it that the view of some cranky powerless bishop evokes calls of a crisis in Catholic -Jewish relations, despite the revolutionary changes in Church teachings regarding Jews since Vatican II?

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Compassion and Criticism

Sam Greenfield | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Homosexuality, Religion, Ted Haggard, Superbowl, Roseanne Barr, Rev. Ted Haggard, Ted Haggard Gay Sex Scandal, Homophobia, Homosexuality and Religion, Gays, Bruce Springsteen, Politics News
Sam Greenfield

One day, Ted Haggard may be the first gay evangelical minister. One day those of his faith may come forward and open the closet door and find peace. I wish all this for him.

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People of the Book are one Another's Trusted Friends

Harun Yahya | Posted 02.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Koran, Jews, Islam, Bible, Catholicism, Judaism, Understanding, Catholic, Tolerance, Religious Tolerance, Friendship, Islamophobia, Catholic Church, Catholics, Torah, Quran, Christians, Good Deeds, Muslim, Living News
Harun Yahya

Islam is the religion of peace, love and tolerance. However, nowadays certain circles are trying to give Islamic morality the wrong image. The religio...

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Catholic Church Opposes Dirty Oil Sands Development

wsj.com | Posted 03.01.2009 | Green

Read More: Catholic Church, Energy, Oil Sands, Oil, Luc Bouchard, Canada, Green News

Bishop Luc Bouchard of St. Paul's Diocese, smack in the heart of Canadian oil-sands territory, has launched a broadside against oil sands development ...

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A Journey to Heal and Forgive

Tim Giago | Posted 02.18.2009 | Living

Read More: Indian Boarding Schools, Catholics, Catholic Church, Exposes, Kevin Gover, American Indians, Catholicism, Books, Secretary of the Interior, Native Americans, Catholic, Indian Mission Boarding Schools, Religion, Living News
Tim Giago

I urge every Native American that has ever felt the repercussions of the boarding school experience to go to info@whitebison.org and find out about the CD, The Road to Wellbriety.

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Pope Urges Spanish Catholics To Protect Family Values

AFP | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: Gay and Lesbian Marriage, Abortion, Catholic Church, Spanish Socialist Government, Madrid, Liberal Social Reforms in Spain, Family Values, Pope Benedict XVI, Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, World News

Hundreds of thousands of people Sunday attended an open-air Catholic mass in Madrid designed to promote family values in a country where the Socialist...

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New Sex-Abuse Scandal Divides Irish Catholics

AP | SHAWN POGATCHNIK | Posted 01.23.2009 | World

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DUBLIN, Ireland — Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fe...

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Pope Likens Saving Gays To Saving The Rainforest

Reuters | Posted 01.22.2009 | World

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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict said on Monday that saving humanity from homosexual or transsexual behavior was just as important as saving the...

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Beyond the Shadow of a Doubt

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 01.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Tony Award, Meryl Streep, Doubt the Movie, Catholic Church, Pulitzer Prize, Amy Adams, Clergy Sex Abuse, John Patrick Shanley, Chicago, Daniel Mccormack, Brian F. O'byrne, Cherry Jones, St. Agatha, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Movies, Chicago News
Cathleen Falsani

The big-screen incarnation of Doubt may be even more powerful than the play, particularly given the eerie similarities it bears to a very real drama that has unfolded in the Archdiocese of Chicago.

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Separation of Church and Estate

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 12.25.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Religion, Property Tax, Megachurches, Church and State, Walz v. Tax Commission of the City of New York, Churches and Politicking, Religious Tax Exemptions, Catholic Church John Kerry, Prop 8, Christian Echoes National Ministry, Founding Fathers, Churches and Political Funding, Same-Sex Marriage, Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, Pledge of Allegiance, Religion and Politics, Religious Right, Church Tax Exemption, Inc. v. u.s., Rev. Jay Scott, Catholic Church Obama, Tenth Circuit Court, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Churches are political organizations that routinely violate IRS statutes, undermining any claim they might have had to property tax exemptions.

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Church Threatens to Excommunicate Father Roy Bourgeois, Founder of the School of the Americas Watch

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted 12.20.2008 | Living

Read More: Catholic Church, Excommunication, Catholic, Roy Bourgeois, School of the Americas Watch, Living News
Rabbi Michael Lerner

What do we do if one of our religious communities is directly involved in racist, sexist, homophobic, or anti-Semitic doings?

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Not So Fabuloso: Latinos and Proposition 8

Daniel Cubias | Posted 12.17.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Latinos, Homosexuality, Proposition 8, Hispanics, Maricon, Prop 8, Gay Marriage, Politics News
Daniel Cubias

Is it possible that the old boogeyman, the Catholic Church, is somewhat responsible for the invincible strain of homophobia in Latino culture? To the surprise of absolutely no one, the answer is yes.

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Italians Are in Love -- with Obama

Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin | Posted 12.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Europe, Italy, Berlusconi, Obama, Barack Obama, 2008 Presidential Election, Obama International Reaction, Umbria, Obama Reaction Abroad, Silvio Berlusconi, Election Results, Obama Berlusconi, Election Reaction, Politics News
Jim Schumacher and Debbie Bookchin

Our friends implore us for Obama buttons or any other campaign memorabilia we can find, and it seems as if every Italian stranger we've encountered has been unable to contain themselves with excitement.

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Jesus Wouldn't Give $200K to Back Prop 8

Kip Williams | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Catholic Church, Prop 6, Poverty, Proposition 8, No on Prop 8, American Family Association, California Prop 8, US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Focus on the Family, Civil Rights, Politics News
Kip Williams

I was shocked and offended to learn that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops had thrown down $200K to back Prop 8, which would revoke the right of same-sex couples to get married.

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