By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New York City's Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan told the press on Wednesday that he would be glad to help mediate a compromise between supporters and opponents of an Islamic center and mosque that is planned for a site only blocks from ground zero.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A young parish priest in Texas is making national headlines after writing an article for his local newspaper that defends Church teaching on same-sex marriage.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A relic of the true cross, which was stolen from a chapel in Boston's Holy Name Cathedral last month has been recovered in Vermont.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A little more than a year after his controversial appearance at Notre Dame University, President Barack Obama has been invited to speak at Louisiana's Xavier University on August 29 to mark the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
More than 30,000 pilgrims were evacuated from the Sanctuary of Lourdes on Sunday after French police received a warning that four bombs had been planted at the site.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Laws in the state of Louisiana that protect the profits of the funeral industry are being used to prevent a monastery of monks from selling handmade wooden caskets to support themselves.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
State law is forcing the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin to begin offering its employees insurance coverage for birth control.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Three men from Kentucky who attempted to sue the Vatican for alleged sex abuse by priests have decided to drop their case.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Authorities in the southern Italian town of Pietrelcina say thieves broke into the chapel at San Giovanni Rotondo this past weekend and attempted to steal a gold reliquary containing relics of the famed Capuchin mystic, St. Pio.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Cardinal Francis George, President of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, decried the August 4 decision of a federal judge to overturn a California voters' 2008 initiative known as Proposition 8 that protected marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
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