By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Newly released documents from a member of the commission tasked with discerning whether the Church would allow the use of artificial contraception show that Pope Paul VI issued Humanae Vitae in spite of the fact that a majority of the members were in favor of changing Church policy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The new iPhone app, Confession: A Roman Catholic App, has not only risen to the number one spot on Apple's "Lifestyle" app chart, but it's drawing people back to Confession for the first time in years and is even being used by non-Catholics as a useful examination of conscience.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican issued a rare decree yesterday in which it ordered St. Stanislaus Kostka Church in Adams, Massachusetts, and two other churches in the Springfield diocese to reopen as places of worship.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new report issued by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research in New Haven, Connecticut has found that 270 Christians die for the faith every day.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Homosexual activists are now targeting the popular new Catholic Confession app for Apple's iPhone, saying it promotes "anti-gay spiritual abuse."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an interview with the Italian Catholic press, Archbishop Louis Sako of Kirkuk, Iraq said the West cannot possibly understand the threat of a "reawakening of Islam" in the Middle East and called the region a "scary volcano" since the Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Church officials have been called in to investigate a possible miracle that took place in the chapel of a Catholic middle school in Jackson, Michigan during Eucharistic adoration two weeks ago.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The cause for the beatification of an Italian youth who created an international exhibit on Eucharistic miracles is being introduced in the Archdiocese of Milan.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Police in Dayton, Ohio are looking for the person(s) responsible for spray painting Satanic symbols on statues at Immaculate Conception Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A day after Illinois' "Catholic" Governor Pat Quinn signed a civil unions bill into law, homosexual activists announced plans to demonstrate for same-sex marriage outside Holy Name Cathedral on Feb. 13 and the city has promised not to enforce an ordinance that forbids protests near places of worship.
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