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IN THE NEWS
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The Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Vatican's office of media studies, speaks out on the growing incivility by Catholics on the Internet. |
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Illinois is finally able to enforce a parental notification law - after a decade of legal challenges. |
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Italy says it will challenge a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights banning the display of a Catholic crucifix at a state school. |
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Sources in Rome say JPII will be beatified soon, in 2010 at the latetst. |
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The University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy is the last Catholic college-prep school left in the city. |
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Religious leaders in Australia, looking at the experience of other nations, oppose a charter of rights. |
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An Egyptian convert warns the West not to abandon its Judeo-Christian heritage. |
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An exhibit commemorating the 400th anniversary of the death of pathbeaking Jesuit missionary to China Matteo Ricci has just opened in the Vatican. |
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People are traveling to Switzerland to kill themselves, causing the Swiss government to review its laws on assisted suicide. |
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Half of those asked in ten countries believe Creation should be taught along with Darwin. |
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The U.S. government defends free speech against Islamic efforts to implement "anti-defamation" policies at the U. N. Human Rights Council. |
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The pope reaches out to the Orthodox Church. |
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Ted Kennedy’s son attacks the Church’s position on abortion for endangering the “biggest social justice issue of our time”: Obamacare? |
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito wonders why so many objections are raised about Catholics on the Court. |
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Thousand of Anglican clergy in England may now turn to Rome. |
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The Vatican announces some new procedures making it easier for Anglicans to come into full communion with Rome. |
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Vatican representatives will meet next week with Catholic traditionalists in an attempt to finally normalize their relations with Rome. |
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Ignored by the American press; a sensation in India. |
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Philippine authorities are seeking to rescue an Irish Columban missionary being held hostage by militant Muslims. |
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The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown would like to meet the pope. |
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An Army chaplain in an old heroic mold may soon receive a Medal of Honor. |
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Benedict XVI recalls the medieval head of the Benedictine monastery at Cluny, “a sublime example of the sensitivity that guides Christian life.”
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A new study shows that about one in every four people on the planet is an adherent to Islam. |
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A group who bucked cultural trends to follow God's word. |
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POTUS expresses his “unwavering “ commitment to the equivalence of homosexual and heterosexual “rights.” |
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A new report puts the worldwide Muslim population at more than a billion-and-a-half. |
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President Obama will lift the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy with regard to homosexuals. |
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Learn the new word of the day: Quiverfull. |
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The pope was a hit in the Czech Republic, but a poll shows that only twenty-four percent there actually believe in God. (In the U.S. it’s eighty-eight percent.) |
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The election of the pro-choice Barack Obama may be the reason why. |
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Five of the Catholic justices of the Supreme Court attend the annual Red Mass in Washington, and one who is Jewish. |
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That’s the message of the pope to his priests: use all the new media to proclaim the Gospel. |
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A Vatican astronomer explains why science and religion are a match made in heaven. |
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Benedict XVI celebrates a Mass of hope at the start of his visit to the Czech Republic. |
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Monday, 28 September 2009 |
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A Kennedy speaks
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By Steve Peoples, Providence Journal
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Before a crowd of seventy-five, a gesticulating Patrick Kennedy (“the last member of his storied family to hold federal office”) warns of the imminent danger posed by pro-life opponents of... |
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The current thaw between Rome and Moscow has raised old questions about treatment of the Ukrainian Catholic Church. |
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Vatican officials deny stories currently being circulated that Benedict XVI knew about the views of Holocaust denier and SSPX Bishop Richard Williamson before lifting sanctions against SSPX. |
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Wednesday, 23 September 2009 |
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Immortality soon
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By Amy Willis, Telegraph
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Scientist Ray Kurzweil claims humans could become immortal in as little as twenty years through nanotechnology and an increased understanding of how the body works. |
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Some neighbors may think Thien Tam (Heavenly Heart) is Buddhist, but it’s a Catholic monastery built on a former ostrich farm. |
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Pope Benedict XVI calls for a special synod in 2010 to deal with the specific problems of the Middle East. |
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A campaign to encourage people to commit conscious acts of kindness for neighbors and strangers has been a disappointing flop for its organizers. |
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The Patriarch of Jerusalem says there's plenty of blame to go around for the loss of Palestine's historic Christian community. |
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A Roman Catholic deacon and vintner decides to build a chapel . . . Wait a minute! They make wine in Arkansas? |
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Lord Conrad Black, an erstwhile master of the universe, finds faith anew in prison. |
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Since 1993, three Mexican religious, eleven priests, and a cardinal have been assassinated by drug thugs. |
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Benedict XVI affirms that all Catholics have a duty to help the mission ad gentes, even in persecution. |
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Vermont becomes the fourth state to allow same-sex marriage. |
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Scranton's courageous bishop resigns because of physical ailments. |
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Social network site's religion question sparks revealing look at faith as it migrates online. |
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Excerpts from Senator Kennedy’s letter to Pope Benedict and the pope’s response.
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In New Jersey , Catholic bishops begin a campaign to defeat a same-sex marriage bill expected to come up in the legislature after elections in November.
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A New Hampshire court orders a homeschooled 10-year-old into public education, because she “reflect[s] her mother’s rigidity on questions of faith.”
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Thursday, 27 August 2009 |
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Faith and Reason
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By Jean Cowden Moore, Ventura County Star
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A secular newspaper describes how Thomas Aquinas college has succeeded in becoming a first-rate liberal arts institution while remaining fully Catholic.
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The independent research group’s conclusion: “Despite what Obama said, the House bill would allow abortions to be covered by a federal plan and by federally subsidized private plans." |
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Tuesday, 25 August 2009 |
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Non sola scriptura
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By Patrick Condon, The Washington Post
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Leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have voted to lift a ban that prohibited sexually active gays and lesbians from serving as ministers. |
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Major Jewish groups and rabbis from the three largest branches of American Judaism said Thursday in New York City that their relationship with Roman Catholic leaders is at risk because ... |
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In Sri Lanka , Catholic pilgrims—and others—celebrate the survival of a 500-year-old statue of the Virgin.
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Karen Laub-Novak, wife of TCT writer Michael Novak, passed away last week after a life rich in experience and art.
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In Orissa, security forces are on maximum alert for the first anniversary of an anti-Christian pogrom. |
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Young Signor Berlusconi, 73, prime minister of Italy, tries the patience of Mother Church.
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Louisville basketball Rick Pitino, a Catholic, is caught in a web of betrayal, adultery, extortion, and abortion.
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The pope reflects on martyrs: victims of regimes that are hell on earth.
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After 27 years of marriage, the actor-director has been given an annulment – not from the Church but from his father. |
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The proposals on healthcare reform to date all allow tax dollars to be used to pay for abortions.
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Intermarriage and other factors have produced steep declines in faith and practice among American Jews. |
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Not just for Catholic kids and schools but also for disabled students.
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