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Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama praises husband’s support for homosexual causes

Jul 1, 2008

Michelle Obama, wife of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, on Thursday told the Democratic National Committee’s Gay and Lesbian... Read more

Bishop Francis DiLorenzo

Bishop of Richmond knew charity staff planned to help minor get abortion

Jul 1, 2008

Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of the Diocese of Richmond was told that a diocesan charity planned to help a 16-year-old... Read more

Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

Archdiocese of Denver settles majority of sex abuse claims for $5.5 million

Jul 1, 2008

Denver Archbishop Charles J. Chaput announced today that the archdiocese has settled nearly all of the claims of sexual abuse... Read more

Bishop Thomas Wenski

‘Culture wars’ far from over, Bishop Wenski says

Jul 1, 2008

In a Sunday newspaper commentary Thomas Wenski, the Bishop of Orlando, Florida decried the California Supreme Court’s decision to overturn... Read more

Tony Perkins / Barack Obama

Ad asks Obama: ‘If fatherhood begins at conception, when does life begin?’

Jul 1, 2008

A new advertisement from the Family Research Council’s lobbying arm, FRC Action, cites Sen. Barack Obama’s endorsement of fathers who... Read more

CNA

CNA introduces new column for Pauline Year

Jun 30, 2008

In celebration of the Jubilee Year of St. Paul, Catholic News Agency is pleased to announce that we have added... Read more

CNA

Obama-Dobson argument a “political blunder” for Obama

Jun 29, 2008

Gary McCullough, director of Christian Newswire, has called Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama’s attack on Focus on the Family... Read more

U.S. appeals court upholds S. Dakota informed consent law

Jun 28, 2008

The U.S. Eight Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Friday against a temporary injunction filed to block the implementation of... Read more

The statue of St. Paul in front of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome

Web site dedicated to the Pauline Year launched by CNA

Jun 28, 2008

At six o’clock in the evening on Saturday June 28, Pope Benedict XVI will inaugurate the year-long celebration of St.... Read more

Archbishop Raymond Burke

Archbishop Burke appointed to head Vatican ‘Supreme Court’

Jun 27, 2008

Today the Holy Father appointed Archbishop Raymond Leo Burke as prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura.  The... Read more

CNA

Gov. Schwarzenegger commits to 20 daily rosaries to help pass health care plan

Jun 27, 2008

Governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger spoke to a meeting of the Catholic Healthcare Association (CHA) in San Diego on Monday... Read more

Bishop Victor Galeone

Florida bishops ask governor to stop state executions

Jun 27, 2008

The archbishops and bishops of Florida have delivered a letter to Florida Governor Charlie Crist urging him to stop executions... Read more

CNA

African-American coalition marches on RNC and DNC headquarters to protest Planned Parenthood

Jun 26, 2008

A coalition of African-American pastors and other pro-lifers marched on the headquarters of both major American political parties in Washington... Read more

Cardinal Dario Castrillon Hoyos / Bishop Bernard Fellay

Bishop Fellay rejects Vatican conditions for reconciling split

Jun 26, 2008

Bishop Bernard Fellay, the leader of the Society of St. Pius X, has rejected the terms offered by the Vatican... Read more

CNA

Conference to discuss promotion of human life and dignity in the ‘New Evangelization’

Jun 26, 2008

Pro-life leaders will join physicians, ethicists and experts in family life and social justice issues for a July convocation in... Read more

CNA

Deal Hudson says Catholics don’t know the real Obama

Jun 26, 2008

Deal W. Hudson, a Catholic political analyst, has criticized Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, for his... Read more

CNA

Archdiocese of Military hires first national vocations director

Jun 25, 2008

Four weeks into his new job, Fr. John McLaughlin says that that his position as the first national vocations director... Read more

Matt Daniels, president of AFM

Same-sex marriage could threaten civil liberties and religious freedoms

Jun 25, 2008

Matt Daniels, Founder and President of the Alliance for Marriage, has warned that the legal recognition of same-sex marriages further... Read more

Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis forbids ‘gay pride’ service from church

Jun 25, 2008

The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis has forbidden one of its parishes, St. Joan of Arc Church, from holding... Read more

CNA

Pfizer to invest in adult stem-cell treatment for eyes

Jun 25, 2008

The pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has announced that it is funding a new adult stem-cell treatment that could treat diabetes-induced retinal... Read more