Archive for January 30, 2007

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Catholic Church in UK faces decision on homosexual adoption

The Catholic hierarchy in the United Kingdom is facing serious questions today following Prime Minister Tony Blair’s declaration last night... Read more

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New Bishop for Diocese of Youngstown, OH

Pope Benedict XVI announced Tuesday that the Most Reverend George V. Murry, S.J., has been appointed Bishop of the Diocese... Read more

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Papal Latinist makes new push to save “dying” language

Latin is a language that is integral to the life of the Church and it must be saved, says Papal... Read more

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15 thousand march against abortion in Portugal

More than 15,000 people marched through the streets of Lisbon on Sunday to demonstrate their support for the right to... Read more

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German minister proposes creating European Alliance for the Family

During a meeting with the European Parliament’s Family and Infancy Protection Group, Germany’s Minister of Family Affairs, Ursula Von der... Read more

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Pressure to leave murder of Cardinal Posadas unresolved?

The weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Mexico, “Desde la Fe,” reported this week that there is reason to believe... Read more

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Poll shows decline in support for abortion in Portugal

As the vote on a referendum on abortion nears in Portugal, a new poll has revealed that support for abortion... Read more

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Chinese cardinal says Vatican should take a harder line with China

Cardinal Joseph Zen of Hong says he believes it is time for the Vatican to change its strategy with China... Read more

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Brownback reintroduces Public Expressions of Religion Act

U.S. Senator Sam Brownback reintroduced the Public Expressions of Religion Act on Jan. 29. The bill would prevent activist groups... Read more

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Collegiate Pro-life group plans expansion into Canada

Crossroads, a national collegiate pro-life organization that has sponsored annual pro-life walks across the United States each summer since 1995,... Read more

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Catholic-Orthodox commission returns to work

The Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity this morning released a communiqué announcing that starting this morning, January 30th, the... Read more

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Cardinal calls Americans to announce the Gospel of Life with greater fervor

"Weneed to raise the volumn in announcing the Gospel of Life," with thesewords Cardinal Sean O’Malley strongly urged Americans to... Read more

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A patient at the new Misky María Palliative Care Hospital located on the outskirts of Lima, Perú.

New palliative care hospital brings ‘sweetness of Mary’ to poorest in Peru

Professor Mouna Maroun is the first Arab to be elected as the rector of an Israeli university, the University of Haifa. Maroun belongs to the Arab minority in Israel, the Christian minority among Arabs, and the Maronite minority among Christians. She says she is proud of her religious affiliation and wears a golden crucifix around her neck. "My election is an important message that everything is possible in the Israeli academia," she told CNA.

First Arab Christian woman to lead Israel’s University of Haifa

Mother Marla Marie stands on the front porch of the sisters’ Mother of the Light convent in Dartmouth, Massachusetts.

From the Washington Post to the Maronite convent: Meet Mother Marla Marie

Father Roger Landry, Catholic chaplain at Columbia University, discusses the protests at Columbia University in New York City on EWTN’s “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” on May 2, 2024.

Columbia’s Catholic chaplain: Campus protests were pushed by ‘explicitly communist’ outsiders

President Joe Biden presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit Father Greg Boyle on May 3, 2024.

Biden awards Presidential Medal of Freedom to Jesuit priest for work with youth

Martyred by the Nazis, Dutch St. Titus Brandsma was a journalist who gave his life so that the truths of the faith would not be silenced.

The prayer of a holy journalist before dying for the freedom of the Catholic press

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Chicago priest blesses same-sex ‘spouses,’ says Fiducia Supplicans allows it

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa gives the homily at a Mass in which he took possession of his titular church, St. Onuphrius, in Rome on May 1, 2024.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: Peace in Holy Land built on dialogue, action

The spiritual shepherd of the Church in Singapore is Cardinal William Goh, archbishop since early 2013 and a cardinal since 2022.

Cardinal Goh of Singapore: ‘Deep encounter with Jesus’ is key to passing on the faith

Oviedo Archbishop Jesús Sanz Montes accused the government of focusing "in a biased and manipulative way on the problem of pedophilia as something attributable only to the Catholic Church."

Spanish archbishop slams government’s obsession with the Catholic Church

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