Archive for July 25, 2008

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Canadian majority opposes Order of Canada for abortionist Morgentaler

A national phone poll of Canadian households claims that 55.8 percent of Canadians oppose the bestowal of the Order of... Read more

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Board members from breakaway St. Louis parish reconcile with Church, join lawsuit

Three members of the board from the breakaway St. Stanislaus Kostka parish in St. Louis have reconciled with the Catholic... Read more

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Priests still suffering from effects of Humanae Vitae dissenters, Vatican cardinal says

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the often debated papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, in which Pope Paul VI reaffirmed the... Read more

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Holy Father meets with prime minister of Iraq

Today at Castelgandolfo, the Holy Father met with Prime Minister of Iraq Nouri Kamel Al-Maliki.  During the course of their... Read more

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Pope appoints San Antonio archbishop to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America

Today Pope Benedict named two members to the Pontifical Commission for Latin America: Archbishop of San Antonio, Jose Horacio Gomez;... Read more

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Vatican spokesman condemns open letter to the Pope as ‘paid propaganda’

It is “paid propaganda to promote the use of contraceptives” said Vatican spokesman Fr. Federico Lombardi today as he harshly... Read more

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Catholic Church criticizes pro-abortion campaign for using Bible quotes

The spokesman for the Archdiocese of Mexico City, Father Hugo Valdemar, criticized a campaign recently launched by “Catholics for Choice”... Read more

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Chilean youth return from World Youth Day full of evangelical zeal

A group of 528 young people from Chile who traveled to Sydney for World Youth Day returned home on Thursday... Read more

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Anglican tensions not welcomed by Catholics, Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor says at Lambeth

The Catholic Church takes no pleasure in the tensions within the Anglican Church, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor said in a Friday... Read more

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Humanae Vitae was and is sign of contradiction, says director of L’Osservatore Romano

The director of the L’Osservatore Romano, Giovanni Maria Vian, devoted his latest editorial to the importance of Paul VI’s encyclical... Read more