Archive for October 28, 2011

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Government's priorities questioned, as panel tells boys to get HPV shots

The Catholic Medical Association is reacting with skepticism to a government panel recommendation that all boys be vaccinated again the... Read more

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CCHD cuts funds for AIDS agency over condom distribution

The U.S. bishops' social justice arm has cut funding to a New York-based AIDS charity after the group was discovered... Read more

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Argentinean judge fines priest for ringing church bells

A judge in the Argentinean city of Santa Rosa has fined a local parish priest for ringing the church bells... Read more

Prime Minister of United Kingdom David Cameron during the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth, Australia on October 28, 2011. ©Annaliese McDonough/Commonwealth Sectratariat (CC BY-NC-ND)?w=200&h=150

British monarch can now marry a Catholic but cannot be one

The centuries-old law barring the British monarch from marrying a Catholic has been scrapped but not the rule forbidding them... Read more

Pope Benedict XVI in St. Peter's Square Oct. 23, 2011?w=200&h=150

Pope: Assisi meeting shows desire for peace is real

Pope Benedict XVI met this morning with delegates who participated in yesterday’s Assisi gathering and said that the meeting showed... Read more

U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Miguel Diaz poses Oct. 28, 2011 with Chiara the dove?w=200&h=150

The ambassador’s son and Chiara the dove of peace

It has to be one of the more unusual legacies of the World Day for Peace in Assisi but the... Read more

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Caritas Spain sends $280,000 to flood victims in Central America

Administrators of Caritas Spain have approved a donation of $280,000 to assist victims of recent flooding in Central America. Read more

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By Michelle La Rosa

Discrimination against Muslims charge 'without foundation,' Catholic University says

A formal legal complaint filed against Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. is being strongly denounced by both Catholics... Read more