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Terri Schiavo’s parents to speak at Catholic family conference
Following a heartbreaking battle to save the life of their brain-damaged daughter last spring, Bob and Mary Schindler, parents of... Read more
Nuncio explains Vatican’s swift tsunami relief, says opportunity for development mustn’t be squandered
During a speech to the United Nations Economic and Social Council yesterday, the Vatican’s Archbishop Celestino Migliore stressed that the... Read more
Society will pay for homosexual “marriage,” bishop warns
Bishop Juan Jose Asenjo of Cordoba, Spain, warned this week that society “will end up sooner or later paying for... Read more
Venezuelan bishops call for defense of human life through dialogue
The Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela concluded its Plenary Assembly this week with a call to engage in dialogue to defend... Read more
Archbishop warns of danger of totalitarianism of Spanish government
The Vice President of the Bishops’ Conference of Spain, Archbishop Antonio Cañizares Llovera of Toledo, denounced the educational policy of... Read more
Registration for meeting between seminarians and Pope extended to end of July
Seminarians from around the world have until the end of July to register for a special meeting with Pope during... Read more
Pope to write first encyclical during vacation
Sources close to the Holy See said this week Pope Benedict XVI, who began a 17-day vacation on Monday in... Read more
Cardinal urges Senate to support umbilical cord blood stem-cell research
Cardinal William Keeler has urged the United States Senate to reject a bill supporting embryonic stem-cell research and pass other... Read more
Cardinal McCarrick says “evolution is fine--as long as there is room for a Creator”
Following a New York Times editorial by Vienna’s Cardinal Christoph Schonborn last week which stated that a “neo-Darwinist” idea of... Read more
Fort Worth Bishop dies; priest scheduled to be installed as Coadjutor will now become ordinary
In an very unusual turn of events, Most Reverend Kevin William Vann, scheduled to be installed as Coadjutor Bishop of... Read more
NY bishops push for veto on bill allowing Plan B without prescription
New York’s eight Catholic bishops have urged Gov. George Pataki to veto a bill that would make the morning-after pill,... Read more
Feminist forum claims women's rights at stake in court nominations
Feminists at a forum Monday said they would fight President George Bush’s nomination of a “strict constructionist” judge to the... Read more
Diocese of Tucson to emerge from bankruptcy
The Diocese of Tucson will emerge from bankruptcy thanks to a reorganization plan that has the archdiocese, insurers and parishes... Read more
Thomas More Law Center To argue For Reversal of $120M Verdict Against Pro-Lifers in the “Nuremberg Files” Case
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Portland, Oregon, will hear oral arguments today in one of... Read more
Basilica in Argentina celebrates 17,000 hours of continuous Eucharistic adoration
The faithful of the Basilica of San Jose de Flores in Buenos Aires are celebrating their second year of perpetual... Read more
Venezuelan bishops reiterate rejection of proposal to allow abortion
Archbishop Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida and president of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, reiterated this past week the Church’s... Read more
Man loses his way without God, says Madrid cardinal
The Archbishop of Madrid, Caridnal Antonio Maria Rouco Varela, said this week that in his search for happiness man loses... Read more
Catholics should engage in civil disobedience against anti-life legislation
The President of the Committee on Missions of the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico, Bishop Florencio Olvera Ochoa of Cuernavaca, said... Read more
New Vatican document calls prostitution an ‘act of violence’ and a ‘form of slavery’
In a new document released yesterday the Vatican called prostitution a “form of modern day slavery” and an act of... Read more
Vatican calls for eradication of illegal arms trade
Speaking to a group at the United Nations yesterday, the Vatican’s Archbishop Celestino Migliore, permanent observer to the U.N. called... Read more
