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By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – More than a dozen religious leaders sat down with President Barack Obama March 8 to stress their concerns for immigration reform, before ending with a prayer and promising to work with their faith communities on the issue, especially during the rest of Lent and Easter. Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez told reporters […]
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By Daniel Linskey
WASHINGTON – Defending religious liberty is part of the bigger struggle to “convert our own hearts” and “live for God completely,” Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said July 4 in Washington at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. He delivered the homily at the Mass that brought the U.S. bishops’ “fortnight […]
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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Catholic Church’s challenges to the federal government’s contraceptive mandate under the health care law is not an attempt to “throw” the presidential election in favor of one candidate or against another, said the chairman of the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Freedom. Speaking with members of the Catholic Press Association […]
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By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Religious liberty was topic A at the eighth annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held April 19 at a Washington hotel. “Never in the lifetime of anyone present here has the religious liberty of the American people been as threatened as it is today,” warned Carl Anderson, supreme knight of the Knights of Columbus, […]
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By Carol Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – Defending religious liberty was a top priority this year for the U.S. Catholic bishops, who repeatedly spoke out against threats to its existence. Much as they did the year before, the bishops in 2012 spoke out consistently against the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ mandate requiring most religious employers to provide […]
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By Mike Latona Catholic News Service
ROCHESTER, N.Y. – Salesian Sister Jennifer Kane is a living conversion story, who has gone, she said, from “bombs to Bibles.” A 16-year military veteran who at one time was a missile systems engineer working on intercontinental nuclear weapons, Sister Jennifer is preparing to make her first profession of vows with the Salesian Sisters of […]
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By Christina Capecchi
“It was 1415,” my friend corrected her husband over a dinner of wings and beer on that stunning Monday when Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation. We were discussing, like so many across the globe, our newly acquired bit of papal trivia: the last pope to resign. Over the course of the day, there had […]
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
BALTIMORE – At its height, the Holy Name Society boasted more than 40,000 members in 135 parishes in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. More than a half century later, there are about 500 members in 18 parishes. Baltimore’s declining numbers aren’t an aberration. Across the country, membership has fallen as one of the world’s oldest Christian […]
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By Dennis Sadowski Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A little self-reflection every now and then never hurts. Some call it prayer; others a retreat. Peter Maurin and Dorothy Day, co-founders of the Catholic Worker, called it “clarification of thought.” No matter how it’s pegged, something worthy usually emerges. Stephanie Gyldendan, head organizer for ESTHER, a faith-based organization addressing social justice concerns […]
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By R.w. Dellinger Catholic News Service
LOS ANGELES – In a wide-ranging address at the eighth annual Los Angeles Catholic Prayer Breakfast, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia spoke of the “debris of failure” that must be dealt with if the Catholic Church in America is to be truly renewed. The archbishop said the obvious problems include the clergy sex abuse […]
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