A member of the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Healing Love, has issued a public statement in which she welcomes the Vatican's action against the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) saying that the dissident organization does not represent her or thousands of other nuns.
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The Vatican has had enough of the media's penchant for publishing blasphemous images of Pope Benedict XVI while calling it "free speech" and filed an injunction yesterday against the German magazine, Titanic, for an offensive cover image of the pope.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Father Marcel Guarnizo, the priest who famously denied communion to a lesbian Buddhist named Barbara Johnson at a Washington DC church this past winter is no longer in ministry in the Archdiocese.
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The Vatican has issued a new document aimed at promoting vocations and gives parents and teachers useful guidelines on how to avoid blocking a child's call to the priesthood.
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Just as Catholics across the nation rally for religious liberty, another front opens on the battlefield as a lesbian couple in New York filed suit against a Catholic hospital for not providing medical benefits a same-sex spouse - a suit that specifically calls upon the insurance provider not to acquiesce to the religious beliefs of a Catholic institution.
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Catholics across the country are embarking on an unprecedented two-week campaign of rallies, marches, lectures and prayer to galvanize opposition to the Obama Administration's birth control mandate that will strip the faithful of their religious liberty by forcing them to cover healthcare that violates their consciences.
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On the eve of the U.S. bishop's unprecedented campaign for religious freedom, New York's Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan has released a 5,000 word eBook explaining the critical choice mankind must make between true human dignity and a false concept of freedom that is sourced in the culture of death.
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In a rare interview with the Italian Catholic magazine
Famiglia Cristiana, Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone accused the media of trying to "imitate Dan Brown" in their sensationalized coverage of the VatiLeaks scandal and said the devil was behind attempts to portray the Church in a negative light.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
The bishop who led the doctrinal assessment of the Leadership Council of Women Religious (LCWR) has published a revealing op-ed explaining exactly why the Vatican took the position it did and sets the record straight about the many misrepresentations of the facts in this case.
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The Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF) has declared that a book on sexual ethics by Mercy Sister Margaret A. Farley does not conform to the teachings of the Magisterium. As such, the CDF said, “it cannot be used as a valid expression of Catholic teaching, either in counseling and formation, or in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue.”
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