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A fight over athletic fields in this city goes beyond who gets to play soccer where and raises thorny questions about separation of church and state and public aid to religious institutions — divisive issues that have flared repeatedly in heavily Catholic Rhode Island.
At Saint Mary the Virgin Catholic Church, the 75-year-old priest is married, members sing from an Episcopalian hymnal and parishioners kneel at the altar to receive Communion.
Victims of a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme who wanted the man who robbed them severely punished got their wish Wednesday when a judge sentenced the 83-year-old businessman to a 20-year prison term.
Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because of a recent U.S. bishops' statement on salvation.
Rick Pitino's personal failings should be forgiven and he should remain as head basketball coach at the University of Louisville, some Catholics in Kentucky said Sunday.
Clashes broke out after Catholics erected a makeshift place of worship in central Vietnam on a site where American bombs destroyed a church during the Vietnam War. Communist authorities detained 18 people.
An 82-year-old western New York businessman who targeted Catholics and retirees for a multimillion dollar Ponzi scheme pleaded guilty Monday to charges that will leave him penniless and likely in prison for the rest of his life.
If Judge Sonia Sotomayor is confirmed to the U.S. Supreme Court, she will be the sixth Roman Catholic of the nine justices.
A campaign by outraged Roman Catholics to keep President Barack Obama from delivering the commencement address at Notre Dame shows that the gulf between the church and backers of abortion rights remains deep.
A powerful Catholic leader on Friday accused President Barack Obama of pushing an anti-life, anti-family agenda and called Notre Dame's invitation for him to speak scandalous.
Roman Catholic leaders are out of step with ordinary believers in their attitude toward homosexuals, former Prime Minister Tony Blair said in an interview published Wednesday.
A Hanoi court rejected the appeals Friday of eight Roman Catholics convicted last year of disturbing public order and damaging property during a series of demonstrations to demand the return of former church land.
An 82-year-old businessman was charged Thursday with running a Ponzi scheme that took in at least $17 million from a clientele gleaned largely through ads in Catholic newspapers.
New Orleans prosecutors have dropped criminal charges against two protesters who were arrested after they refused to leave a Catholic church closed by the archdiocese.
A Vietnamese court convicted eight Catholics on Monday on charges of disturbing public order and damaging property during a series of prayer vigils to get back confiscated church land, but gave them light sentences.
A South Carolina Roman Catholic priest has told his parishioners that they should refrain from receiving Holy Communion if they voted for Barack Obama because the Democratic president-elect supports abortion, and supporting him "constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil."
Shortly after a priest's opening prayer and a screening of a short film on John McCain's faith, Sen. Sam Brownback stepped to the microphone and didn't waste words.
A Roman Catholic watchdog group is protesting a student art exhibition in which religious symbols including a crucifix and rosary are depicted in sexually explicit paintings.
The leader of Little Rock's Roman Catholic diocese apologized to a national breast cancer organization, saying he made a mistake when he said donations to the group could help fund abortions.
Endorsed by an influential Texas televangelist, Republican John McCain endeared himself to one group of voters but risked alienating another with the pastor's anti-Catholic views.
The Diocese of Little Rock is urging its members not to donate to a breast cancer foundation known for its fundraising races across the globe because the group supports Planned Parenthood.
The outgoing leader of Russia's Catholics said Wednesday the problems souring Vatican relations with the Russian Orthodox Church should be overcome so the two faiths could work together to advance the word of Christ.
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that whether he was a practicing Catholic was a personal matter as he declined to answer questions about his religion.
A group of prominent Catholics is challenging church leaders' opposition to stem cell research and to the proposed Constitutional amendment that would protect such research in Missouri.
When Cardinal Roger Mahony called on Roman Catholics this week to embrace immigrants regardless of legal status, he wasn't just reiterating the church's long tradition of reaching out to the downtrodden.
Pope Benedict "Deeply Disturbed And Distressed" By Irish Report On Pedophile PriestVATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI shares "the outrage, betrayal and shame" felt by Irish Catholics over cases of clerical sexual abuse and the way abuse claims were handled by church leaders, and he plans to write a special pastoral letter to the Catholics of Ireland, the V …
Dorothy Day: Because She Was a Catholic, and a PacifistToday is the anniversary of the death of a great Catholic. A one-time radical, a sinner, a convert, a courageous pacifist (no, that is not an oxymoron), not yet a saint—she gets my vote for most compelling American Catholic of the 20th century. Her name? Dorothy Day.
Catholic Bishops Put Sex Obsession Ahead of Mission to the Sick and the Poor First they threatened to take down health-care reform over abortion coverage.
Berlusconi says crucifix ruling denies Europe's rootsSecularism run amuck. Italians don't have the same separation of Church and State that we have in the United States. There other people are imposing a minority view point on everyone.
Bishops' health care bulletin inserts go nationwide | National Catholic ReporterAll abortions are tragedies, and i fully support the Church taking moral and religious stand against it. But the Catholic Church is a a tax exempt organization, and I'm not sure that this insert was entirely within the rules. We have a separation of Church and State for a reason.
gay marriage and the catholic church in maine"Maine proponents of gay marriage rights woke to defeat today, which is a shame and another signal that the country is still bitterly divided on this issue. The New York Times reports:
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the world's people individually and collectively exhibited more love and respect for the lives of others? All Saints' Day
Obama to Lift HIV/AIDS Travel BanIt appears that President Obama is doing everything in his power to enforce laws against the majority of Americans.
In Maine, same-sex marriage is a Catholic issueCatholics, like many people of faith, are divided on the question of same sex marriage. However, much of the argument for and against the Nov. 3rd vote in Maine are two sides of the same coin.
U.S. Bishops: Current Health Care Bills Violate Essential Principles; Will Seek Changes Or Have To OpposeThe bishops reaffirmed their commitment to working with Congress and the Administration toward genuine health care reform, but stated, "If final legislation does not meet our principles, we will have no choice but to oppose the bill."
Can 'grace alone' heal Protestant, Catholic rift?Protestant and Catholic leaders assembled in Chicago yesterday to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. After 5 centuries of debate, Catholics finally agreed that salvation is by grace alone.
Santorum ask for prayers to help decide if he should do a 2012 Presidential run...Rick Santorum asked a room full of prominent and powerful Catholic Church members to pray to God for an answer to the question of whether he should run for the President.
Christian Church Fire Bombed in Egypt by Crazed Muslims?Sources close to the church who asked to remain anonymous, believed the fire was arson, caused by Muslim neighbors against having the church in their vicinity. They said numerous threats to firebomb the Church were received.
"Rare Video" JFK 1960 Speech at the Houston MinistersAt the time, many wondered if we could elect a Catholic as president. JFK decided not to avoid the issue-- and confronted it head on, by making a speech in the heart of "enemy territory".
Catholic League president: Atheists 'out there to get us'"I'm talking about the extremists within [liberal] ranks who have become very, very vocal," Donohue said. "And over the last several decades what we've seen is an all-out assault. This kind of new atheism.
The Pope vs. American Nunsfeminist theologian Mary E. Hunt writes in Religion Dispatches that the Vatican is investigating the Church's U.S. sisters:
I am still in shock at this horrendous event. Kennedy was the best spirit of the Democrat Party. In the coming days we will all learn of the great accomplishments of Senator Ted Kennedy.
Catholics alarmed by EU equal rights lawAtheists could attack galleries for showing religious art and witches could claim the right to use church halls under a draft EU equal rights law, the Roman Catholic church has warned.
I grew up as a Catholic…my grandparents were loyal Catholics and died Catholics. I remember we used to go to church every Sunday.
INDIA Early marriages spark concernRAGHABPUR, India (UCAN) -- The phenomenon of Catholics marrying before the statutory minimum age is worrying Church officials and young people in an eastern Indian diocese.
Ironic divorce: CA hotelier who gave $125,000 to fund Prop 8 to protect the sanctity of marriage and uphold Catholic beliefs embroiled in nasty split from wife of 43 yearsOn Oct. 9, 2008, Manchester ended 43 years, eight months and nine days of marriage to Elizabeth Manchester by moving out of their La Jolla abode.
Appointment of Catholic as state minister raises hopesDHAKA (UCAN) -- Catholics in Bangladesh have welcomed the appointment of the country's first Catholic government minister, hoping he will highlight minority and tribal concerns.
Catholic couples criticize church role in gay unions fight in MaineTwo lifelong Catholic couples who are parishioners at St. Raphael's Church in Kittery, Maine, are saying they find legal, moral and ethical problems with efforts of the Portland diocese to repeal the state's same-sex marriage law.
A Hard-Line Sequel to the Case of the Pregnant Nine-Year Old Brazil Child & Catholic ExcommunicationIn a tucked away "clarification" published on page 7 of a recent edition of L'Osservatore Romano, the Vatican produced a document that unequivocally confirmed automatic excommunication for anyone involved in an abortion — even in such a situation as dire as the Brazilian case.
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