Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .- The
Director of the Holy See Press Office issued a statement today,
refusing to comment on reports of ongoing discussions between the Holy
See and the government of China.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
A Cincinnati Planned Parenthood Clinic has announced that it will
appeal a ruling requiring it to open its records, reported the
Associated Press.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
The Thomas More Law Center filed an emergency motion Friday to
intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, seeking
to reverse an order to remove the Mt. Soledad Veterans Memorial cross.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
The health, educational, and social projects of the Catholic Church in
India have “no ulterior motives of conversions,” assured Cardinal Ivan
Dias, Archbishop of Mumbai, at a farewell ceremony in his archdiocese
Sunday evening.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .-
Following a similar decision by U.S. Bishops, the Bishops of Australia
have voted, in principle, to accept a new English translation of the
Roman Catholic Mass, which the Vatican favors as being more faithful to
the original Latin text, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .- A
decree was made public today by Cardinal James Francis Stafford,
Apostolic Penitentiary, declaring a plenary indulgence for the faithful
during the 5th World Meeting of Families, which is being celebrated in
Valencia, Spain from the 1st - 9th of July.
Jun 27, 2006 - 12:00 am .- This
morning, the "Lineamenta" (or draft guidelines) for the Second Special
Assembly for the Synod of Bishops of Africa were presented in the Holy
See Press Office. The synod will focus on the many and diverse
problems, which exist around the continent and the Church’s continuing
role in bringing reconciliation, justice, and peace. Participating in
the press conference were Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments,
and Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, secretary general of the Synod of
Bishops.
