By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois is taking on the state's "Catholic" governor who claimed his faith is what led him to support a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Along with the worldwide Church, Pope Benedict XVI conducted a vigil for "nascent human life" in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday evening in which he reminded the faithful that embryos are not just biological material but dynamic, autonomous individuals.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict has issued a post-synodal apostolic exhortation entitled,
Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], which is considered to be the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (
Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a surprising upset, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) elected Archbishop Timothy Dolan over sitting vice president Bishop Gerald Kicanas as the new president of the conference.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A revival of interest in the rite of exorcism appears to be sweeping across the country as more than 60 priests and 56 bishops opted to attend a special two-day conference on the ancient rite that was held just prior to the opening of the bishop's annual assembly in Baltimore.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
With the Church of England on the verge of ordaining women priests for the first time, five bishops who oppose the move have become the first wave of defectors from Anglicanism to Roman Catholicism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Following a deadly attack on Catholics in a Baghdad Cathedral last week, a Syrian Orthodox Archbishop in Britain is calling for all Christians to leave the country because the government is too weak to protect them against the on-going ethnic cleansing of all non-Muslim peoples in that country.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal-elect Gianfranco Ravasi, the Holy See's official "culture minister" believes people who rely on fast food chains for their meals are skipping a vital form of communication.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The same group of terrorists who are responsible for the massacre of 58 Catholics in a Baghdad Cathedral last weekend has published a letter on the Internet threatening the Vatican that unless they intervene in the release of two women who they claim are being held hostage by Coptic Christians, all churches and Christian organizations will become a "legitimate target for mujahedeen."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has condemned the most recent spate of violence against the Christian community in the Middle East after al Qaeda terrorists killed 58 Catholics who were attending Mass on Sunday in the Syrian Catholic cathedral in Baghdad.
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