By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In response to recent reports that 39 percent of all pregnancies in New York City end in abortion, Archbishop Timothy Dolan re-affirmed the Archdiocese's commitment to provide all women in difficult pregnancies with all the help they need.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Reports are surfacing in the Italian media that medical advisers for the Congregation for the Causes of Saints have ruled favorably on a miracle attributed to Pope John Paul II's intercession, which could open the door to beatification as early as this year.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Archbishop of Sydney is willing to meet with supporters of same-sex marriage who want him to call off a Church-sponsored campaign against the unions, but on his own terms - first, they must make a public statement conceding that the Church's opposition to same-sex nuptials is not homophobic and second, they must allow a Catholic married couple to be present at the meeting.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
On the same day the Pope's World Day of Peace message addressed the urgent need for religious tolerance, a car bomb exploded outside a Coptic Christian church in Alexandria Egypt, killing 21 people and injuring 79.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix is planning to strip a local medical center of its Catholic status tomorrow if it does not meet his demands to guarantee compliance with Church teachings.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study on religious tolerance has revealed an alarming increase in discrimination against Christians as a result of the encroachment of secularism into European society.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life said he does not expect the results of the ongoing Visitation of U.S. women's religious communities to cause any dramatic changes in the life of U.S. women religious.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After a two year investigation by some of the world's top Marian theologians, Bishop David L. Ricken of the diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin has approved Marian apparitions seen by Adele Brise in 1859.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Vatican investigation has declared Passionist Father Ignatius Spencer, the great, great, great uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales, to have lived a life of heroic virtue, thus paving the way for his eventual canonization.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the wake of the Baghdad bombing of a cathedral that left dozens dead, news has surfaced from Somalia about a teenage girl who, after being repeatedly tortured by her own parents for embracing Christianity, was found shot to death in a neighboring community.
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