By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
One of four candidates vying for job of mayor of Providence, Rhode Island, was removed from a debate after refusing to take down a large statue of Our Lady that he had placed on the candidates' table.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A relic of the true cross that has been on display in Boston's Cathedral of the Holy Cross for more than 200 years has been stolen.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Diocese of Peoria is planning to meet with officials from the University of Illinois to discuss the case of a professor of Catholicism who was recently fired after an anonymous student complained that his teaching of the Church's position on homosexuality amounted to "hate speech."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Feminists are crying foul over new Vatican directives concerning the manner in which “grave crimes” in the life of the church are addressed because they believe the document puts participation in female ordination in the same category as the sexual abuse of minors.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A well-known dissenting theologian is mocking plans by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) to sponsor a special conference on the Liturgical and Pastoral Practice of Exorcism in Baltimore this November just before the bishops' semiannual meeting.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict XVI has chosen religious freedom as the theme for the celebration of the 2011 World Day of Peace.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Contrary to what various media outlets are reporting, the Vatican’s U.S. lawyer says the Supreme Court decision handed down Monday that allows a lawsuit against the Holy See to move forward was not based on the merits of the case, but was merely a decision to allow the case to return to the lower courts.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Attorneys with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) filed an application with the European Court of Human Rights asking it to hear the case of a seven-year-old boy seized by Swedish authorities because his parents homeschool.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The Vatican is expressing outrage over the raiding of church offices and the opening of two Archbishops’ tombs by Belgian authorities in search of information pertaining to alleged sex abuse scandals in that country.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a recent interview on Vatican television, the director of the Vatican Press Office cited the “impotence and slowness” of both BP and the U.S. government to plug the blown oil well in the Gulf, saying the disastrous episode should serve as a lesson in humility to all of us.
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