Archive for October 9, 2008

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California restores ‘bride’ and ‘groom’ to marriage licenses

The California Department of Public Health, which provides marriage-license forms to counties across the state, will again allow couples who... Read more

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Australian doctors oppose anti-conscience abortion bill

The Archbishop of Melbourne opened a crisis pregnancy center on Wednesday, saying the womb had become an endangered area. His... Read more

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Phoenix bishop introduces booklet titled 'Catholics in the Public Square'

Last week Bishop of Phoenix Thomas J. Olmsted, introduced a revised second edition of his nationally distributed booklet titled, "Catholics... Read more

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Proposition 8 gaining traction with young California voters

A recent poll shows that over the past eleven days, support for Proposition 8 is continuing to grow among young... Read more

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Chilean priest new president of Aid to the Church in Need

The Holy See has named Chilean priest Father Joaquin Alliende-Luco the new leader of Aid to the Church in Need.  Read more

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Spanish Association warns against use of term 'death with dignity' in proposed law

The National Association for the Defense of the Right to Conscientious Objection said this week the proposed “Death with Dignity... Read more

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Church urges values be included in sexual education program

Archbishop Fernando Saenz Lacalle of San Salvador has called on the presidents of Latin America to include the issue of... Read more

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Rural families in Mexico to also be part of photographic mosaic for the Pope

The organizing committee of the Fifth World Meeting of Families said this week during a press conference that rural and... Read more

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Pope Benedict commemorates fiftieth anniversary of Pius XII’s death

Pope Benedict XVI commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Servant of God Pope Pius XII on Thursday in... Read more

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Vatican highlights Pope Pius XII’s work to save Jews on anniversary of his death

Today marks the 50th anniversary of Pope Pius XII’s passing, an anniversary that raises the hackles of some, but has... Read more

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Catholics should become ‘lovers of the Word,' bishops’ synod says

On Thursday morning the Synod Fathers of the Twelfth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops gathered together at... Read more

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Colorado bishops correct governor’s ‘bad theology’ on Catholic teaching about human dignity

Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput and Denver’s Auxiliary Bishop James D. Conley have issued a statement insisting that Catholic... Read more