By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the final days leading up to the next World Youth Day, which will be held in Madrid from August 16-21 of this year, the Vatican has released statistics showing that nearly a half million youth are registered to attend.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A detailed report on the kidnap and forced conversion of a 24 year-old Pakistani Catholic girl will be presented to the UN Council for Human Rights within the next few weeks in order to draw attention to the plight of Christian girls who are routinely kidnapped and forced to convert before being married to Muslim men.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop David M. O'Connell of the Diocese of Trenton has declared a newly formed "independent" Catholic church made up of parishioners of three closed parishes to be "schismatic."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Catholic church in North East, Maryland was desecrated last weekend when thieves broke into the building and stole the tabernacle.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley has asked an Iraqi woman known as the "Mother Theresa" of Iraq, to start a new order, the Daughters of Mary, Our Lady of Nazareth.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After being suspended in the wake of unproven allegations made against him, the popular speaker Fr. John Corapi has announced that after 20 years in ministry, he's leaving the Catholic priesthood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New analysis by a researcher at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) has found that the number of Catholic marriages celebrated in the Church has declined 60 percent since 1972.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A years-long spate of crimes committed against Catholic churches in California continues as police report a 780 year-old relic of St. Anthony was stolen yesterday just hours after it was put on display in a parish near Los Angeles.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of a letter from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron forbidding clergy in his diocese to participate in a Mass that took place during a conference by heretical Catholic groups this weekend, a 78 year-old retired priest defied the ruling and is now under review for presiding over the liturgy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The inauguration of Nigeria's new Christian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has set off a new wave of violence against Christians by Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria, including a June 7 blast that killed 11 people and caused extensive damage to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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