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Baghdad Rendezvous
Twelve years ago, when our son, Mike, enlisted in the Marines right after his eighteenth birthday, I told him that... Read more
Vandals destroy statue of St. Anthony of Padua in Spain
A group of vandals destroyed a statue of St. Anthony of Padua at the parish of San Miguel in Valladolid,... Read more
Survey finds some Catholics looking for a political home
A new survey examining party affiliation and religious observance finds that Catholic support is about evenly split between the Republican... Read more
Embryonic stem cell research 'absolutely unacceptable,' U.S. bishops say
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), gathered for its spring meeting in Orlando, on Friday issued its first... Read more
English paper announces President Bush may be considering Catholicism
Today as President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI met at the Vatican, rumors swirled that Bush is considering converting to... Read more
Brazilian Supreme Court to consider cases on abortion and gay unions
Brazil’s Supreme Court has agreed to hear cases in August on the legalization of abortion for babies with anencephaly and... Read more
Forty-thousand Mexicans to march against legalization of abortion
Nearly 40,000 Mexicans will march on June 22 to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe to pray for the... Read more
Beatification may be soon for 250 Spanish martyrs
The AVAN news agency reported this week that the Holy See has given the green light to move ahead with... Read more
Vatican approves statutes of the Neo-Catechumenal Way
This morning, the President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, Cardinal Stanislaw Rylko, delivered the decree of approval and... Read more
Relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati to be present at WYD
Today the Vatican announced that the relics of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati, a student and member of the Dominican Third... Read more
President Bush ‘honored’ to meet Holy Father at the Vatican
This morning at the Vatican, U.S. President, George W. Bush met with the Holy Father in the Tower of St.... Read more
Retreat promotes encountering Christ while caring for environment
A new Catholic environmental organization that seeks to repair the relationship between people and nature is hosting a retreat to... Read more
Georgia case emblematic of coercive abortion practices, pro-lifers say
A pro-life group has cited the recent case of a Georgia woman who pressured her teenage son’s girlfriend to have... Read more
Australian docs perform successful ‘in utero’ operation
Australian doctors have successfully performed the country’s earliest in-utero surgery by saving an unborn girl’s left foot from a blood... Read more
Discount for student contraceptives added to Iraq war funding bill
An amendment that would indirectly fund Planned Parenthood and university health clinics that distribute contraceptives has been added by the... Read more
Parents should defend children from ideological imposition, says Spanish cardinal
The Archbishop of Toledo, Cardinal Antonio Canizares, encouraged parents to defend their children from the ideology the State is seeking... Read more
Students prep more than 275,000 World Youth Day backpacks
Over 2,500 high school student volunteers are packing more than 275,000 backpacks for World Youth Day pilgrims at a packing... Read more
Argentinean archbishop says drop in birthrate needs urgent attention
Archbishop Hector Aguer of La Plata warned this week that the fall of the birthrate is “an urgent and very... Read more
96 year-old activist is pride of Caritas Valencia volunteers
Ninety six year-old Clotilde Veniel is the oldest Caritas volunteer in the Spanish Archdiocese of Valencia. She visits the sick... Read more
‘Word of God’ to be focus of document for bishop’s synod
Today the secretary general of the Synod of Bishops, Archbishop Nikola Eterovic, presented the “Instrumentum laboris” (working document) to be... Read more
