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The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her top lieutenants were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito voiced frustration Tuesday over what he called persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority.
Ireland's senior Roman Catholic bishops on Wednesday met leading campaigners for thousands of children assaulted, terrorized or molested while in church care — but didn't address the victims' key demand for the church to admit its responsibility for overseeing decades of abuse.
Sen. Edward Kennedy was raised from birth to cherish his Catholicism, and it became both a source of comfort and conflict throughout his life.
Sacramento Catholic leaders are turning to television ads in an effort to get the region's lapsed churchgoers back in the pews.
A fan-shaped baptismal font lies beneath a prominent chandelier, the centerpiece to a new worship center where priests hope to further expand one of the nation's largest Korean Catholic congregations.
Odds are rising that in the coming years, the priest at the neighborhood parish will have roots in Mexico or Vietnam and the sister working at the local health clinic will be dressed in a habit.
Ireland's next report into the cover-up of child abuse in the Catholic Church might be censored or delayed because its publication could undermine prosecutors' efforts to imprison pedophile priests, Justice Minister Dermot Ahern announced Friday.
Ireland has unveiled a plan to protect children better from abuse after investigators documented decades of chronic molestation and brutality in Catholic-run facilities for kids.
The Irish government announced Wednesday that it expects Catholic religious orders responsible for decades of child abuse to report by mid-July on their cash and assets — the next step in making them pay more to thousands of victims.
Bowing to government pressure, 18 Roman Catholic religious orders that had abused thousands of Irish children pledged Thursday to allow external audits of their finances and to establish an entirely new compensation fund for victims.
The Catholic orders responsible for abusing Ireland's poorest children say they're struggling to come up with money to help their victims. Yet investigations into their net worth paint a very different picture — that of nuns and brothers with billions' worth of carefully sheltered assets worldwide.
Key steps in Ireland's struggle to confront child abuse committed by Catholic officials.
A fiercely debated, long-delayed investigation into Ireland's Roman Catholic-run institutions says priests and nuns terrorized thousands of boys and girls in workhouse-style schools for decades — and government inspectors failed to stop the chronic beatings, rapes and humiliation.
President Hugo Chavez railed against Venezuela's Roman Catholic leaders on Tuesday for condemning a law that has weakened his political opponents.
In Africa, some Roman Catholic priests have children and nuns counsel patients to use condoms against the scourge of AIDS. Faithful consult medicine men even though the church condemns that as witchcraft.
A new translation of the Roman Catholic Mass that is to be introduced worldwide in a few years is getting an accidental trial run in South Africa, where some parishioners are complaining it's too hard to understand.
Thousands of people attended funeral services Thursday for Cardinal Paul Joseph Pham Dinh Tung, the retired archbishop of Hanoi and advocate for restoring ties between Vietnam and the Vatican.
Ireland's most prominent Roman Catholic leader, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin of Dublin, questioned Tuesday whether all of his fellow bishops adequately protect children from sexually abusive priests.
In a Sept. 6 story about a land dispute between Roman Catholics and Vietnamese government officials, The Associated Press erroneously described a gathering of Catholics in downtown Hanoi as worship of the Virgin Mary. Catholics venerate the Virgin Mary, but worship God.
At a vacant lot in downtown Hanoi, Catholics have gathered to worship the Virgin Mary — and pressure the communist authorities.
When Joe Biden underwent brain surgery for a life-threatening aneurysm in 1988, he asked doctors whether he could tuck his rosary beads under his pillow. The six-term Democratic senator from Delaware also has offered to shove his rosary down the throat of the next Republican who tells him he isn't religious.
American Catholics said in a new survey they were pleased with the leadership of Pope Benedict XVI, ahead of his first visit to the U.S. since he was elected. The study also found intense interest in faith among some young people.
A third college in the Chicago area has closed after receiving a violent threat.
Quotes from Pennsylvania Catholics who are planning to vote in the state's Democratic primary on April 22:
Political Theater of the Absurd Tragedy was the election in 2000 due to election fraud and the partisan, political interference of the U.S. Supreme Court that will forever tarnish that court.
Bishops Press Obama Strike Abortion Funding! | savannahnow.comVery interesting action by Abortion foes.
The Catholic Church will never ordain womenAs they don modern chasubles that, fortunately, already look as if they were designed for the larger lady, these excommunicated womenpriests declare that they have been led out of the offical structures of the Church by the Holy Spirit.
Catholic Bishops Slam Senate Health Care Proposal : "violates the longstanding federal policy against the use of federal funds for elective abortions"Thus far, the pending Senate bill does not live up to President Obama's commitment of barring the use of federal dollars for abortion and maintaining current conscience laws.
USCCB: Senate health care bill 'morally unacceptable'As the Senate prepares for the discussion of its health care reform bill this weekend, several bishops have sent the Senators a letter on behalf of the USCCB, calling the current version of the health care bill both a 'huge disappointment' and 'morally unacceptable.'
Unprecedented coalition of religious leaders call Americans to stand for sanctity of life, marriage, and religious freedomAn unprecedented coalition of prominent Christian clergy, ministry leaders, and scholars has crafted a 4,700-word declaration addressing the sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and religious liberty.
USCCB Approves Strongly-Worded Document Affirming Value of Natural MarriageThe United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a new document that strongly affirms the Church's traditional teaching on marriage by condemning contraception, divorce, same-sex marriage, and cohabitation as dangers directed "at the very meaning and purpose of marriage, …
Church, state and gay marriage The Catholic Archdiocese of Washington is warning the District of Columbia Council that the church will stop contracting to provide social services if the city approves same-sex marriage as planned. To which the only valid response is, "OK."
Archbishop tells Pope: there will be no turning back on women priestsThe Archbishop of Canterbury yesterday made his most outspoken challenge to the Roman Catholic Church since the Pope invited disaffected Anglicans to switch to Rome.
Secular America vs. the Catholic Church: An Ideological Faith-Based Train Wreck? -- Politics DailyThis.. Is a smart article on the legal wrangling in DC betwixt and between the government and the Catholic Church. Considering issues like the people who can get chewed up as collateral damage how it is and isn't legal, constitutional or timely, and why It matters.
Axelrod: + Obama Opposes Amendment to Stop Tax Funds AbortionObama IS in opposition to the Stupak Amendment in the government health care that would not allow Tax Dollars for Abortion.. Why did Obama say no Tax Dollars for Abortion in the Town Hall meetings? White House Axelrod tells it like it is... Article in part...
Dem Congressman Obey + Stop "Stupid mistakes" in recovery.gov + Stimulus Jobs - Do Not ExistI think it is significant that the Democrat Congressman David Obey wants true numbers and facts on the recovery.gov site as it is "undermining government creditability". I think it is truly worrisome the misinformation about jobs in Districts that do not even exist.
The Miracle of Damascusabout a church-approved Marian apparition and a Syrian mystic named Myrna Nazzour. She has stigmata, experiences visions of both the Blessed Mother and Jesus, and exudes Olive Oil with healing properties, from her face, hands and eyes.
British bishop Richard Williamson to go on trial in Germany for Holocaust denial British Holocaust-denying bishop Richard Williamson faces trial in Germany for an outspoken TV interview in which he denied that the wartime extermination of the Jews took place.
Verbally, bishop isn't turning cheek R.I.'s Tobin welcomes tussles with politiciansPROVIDENCE - The bishop from America's most Catholic state, and increasingly one of the church's most provocative prelates, has provided a rather concise explanation for his willingness to clash with politicians: Christians are not supposed to be nice, at least not all the ti …
Catholic Church Threatens To End Social Service Programs In Washington DC If It's Not Allowed To Discriminate Against Gay PeopleThe Catholic Archdiocese of Washington said Wednesday that it will be unable to continue the social service programs it runs for the District if the city doesn't change a proposed same-sex marriage law, a threat that could affect tens of thousands of people the church helps with …
There is a Right, it is called Freedom of Religion. The Catholic Church has been in existence for over two thousand years; Christianity. Our Country allows a Tax Exempt Status for Churches.
Catholic school Girl suspended for shaving head A 15-YEAR-old Brisbane schoolgirl was suspended for shaving her head to raise money for vital cancer research, The Courier-Mail reports. Emily Pridham and her family told Channel Nine News her father is battling leukemia. He underwent a bone marrow transplant a few weeks ago bu …
Pro-Life Amendment Seen as Historic Victory Overshadowed by Dangers of Health Bill PassageWarnings that Democrats plan to scrap pro-life Stupak amendment language in Senate
George W. Bush makes secret visit to mourning families at Fort Hood; Laura Bush goes too"Last night former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura made a secret visit to the devastated military families at Fort Hood.
Big Night for Catholic ValuesPresident Obama, who says he is opposed to any health care bill that funds abortion, and is against nixing conscience rights, has never once registered any displeasure with current bills that do just that.
Organ TransplantationMany physicians have serious and well-considered concerns about the morality of vital human organ transplantation, and about the fact that the general public has not been properly informed about what really happens when such organs are retrieved.
I remember in my Contract Law Class, never Sign anything until you READ it AND Know what you are signing. There are many attorney's throughout our governing system, I would have hoped they did not miss the class on Contract Law and the Fundamentals for all attorneys who Represen …
Same-sex marriage law in D.C. could 'suppress' Catholic institutions, archdiocese warnsA Washington, D.C.
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