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By Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – A Philadelphia hospital’s alleged refusal to provide a kidney transplant to a mentally disabled 3-year-old is yet another example of the harm caused in the United States by the Roe v. Wade court decision legalizing abortion, according to Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput. “The habit of treating genetically disabled children as somehow less […]
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Retired Navy Adm. James D. Watkins, former chief of naval operations, who was chairman of President Ronald Reagan’s AIDS commission and energy secretary for President George H.W. Bush, died of congestive heart failure July 26 at his home in Alexandria. He was 85. A funeral Mass for Watkins is to be celebrated Aug. […]
National
By Catholic News Service
LIVONIA, Mich. – A funeral Mass was scheduled for Jan. 7 at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit for retired Auxiliary Bishop Moses B. Anderson, who died Jan. 1 in the Detroit suburb of Livonia, where he had been living in his retirement. He was 84. A Jan. 2 statement from the […]
Pope Francis
By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY – Retired Pope Benedict XVI is scheduled to move into a remodeled convent at the Vatican May 2, the Vatican spokesman said. Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said Pope Benedict would arrive at the Vatican in the early evening by helicopter, “weather permitting.” Pope Benedict has been living at the papal summer villa in […]
National
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON – Retired Richmond Bishop Walter F. Sullivan, a resilient advocate for world peace and the dignity of poor Appalachian coal miners, poverty-stricken urban residents and migrant workers working under exhausting conditions alike, died of liver cancer Dec. 11. He was 84. A public visitation will be held Tuesday, Dec. 18, from 3-6 p.m. at […]
National
By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON – This past January, Nova Nelson sang as a soloist with the Archdiocese of Washington Mass Choir at Holy Redeemer Church in Washington at the annual archdiocesan Mass honoring the life and legacy of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. On Oct. 16, Nelson stood before tens of thousands of people from across the […]
National
By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – After running afoul of the courts yet again, the Federal Communications Commission is taking another stab at rewriting its regulations on indecent content on over-the-air television and radio. Whether the regulations need to be rewritten, though, is another matter entirely. The FCC has sustained its court losses in trying to fine networks for […]
Global
By David Agren Catholic News Service
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – The celebrating started late March 18. Outside the Metropolitan Cathedral, in the expansive Plaza de Mayo, rock bands played. Vendors in the area peddled pictures and posters of Pope Francis, as well as pope-themed cushions, calendars and key rings. Seminarians and youth groups began praying for the new pope. Trucks came […]
Movies
Heavy-metal musical romance – set in 1987 – in which an aspiring singer (Julianne Hough), newly arrived in Los Angeles, finds work as a waitress in a headbangers’ nightclub and falls for a bartender (Diego Boneta) in the same establishment who has show biz ambitions of his own. Plot complications involve the bar owner’s (Alec […]
Pope Francis
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service
ROME – As the church is set to begin the Year of Faith and a synod on the new evangelization, the rosary can play a key role in strengthening and spreading the word of God, said a leading American expert in Marian studies. “This Year of Faith is a call for evangelization, a new evangelization […]
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