How could a lawmaker who calls himself a "champion of women" do so after filming himself harassing women who were peacefully praying outside of a Philadelphia Planned Parenthood clinic? So asked Philadelphia's Archbishop Charles J. Chaput in a hard-hitting
statement wherein he called the outrageous conduct of Rep. Brian Sims (D) “unbecoming of an elected official.”
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During an address to youth in Madrid last week, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput warned that liberal news outlets such as
CNN, MSNBC,
Newsweek and
The New York Times do not "provide trustworthy information about religious faith.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
While addressing the first session of the 15th symposium for the Canon Law Association of Slovakia this week, Denver's Archbishop Charles Chaput called upon Christians to fight against the "civil religion" of relativism and the rise of a "state-encouraged atheism" that seeks to reduce religion to "an individual lifestyle accessory."
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The lesbian couple at the center of a controversy involving their two children’s attendance at a Catholic school in Boulder issued a statement saying they don’t believe “homosexuality and organized religion should be mutually exclusive.”
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The decision of a Boulder, Colorado pastor not to allow the child of a lesbian couple to enroll in the parish school is sparking local protests and national controversy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
During a speech at the Houston Baptist University on Monday, Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput said JFK was “sincere, compelling, articulate – and wrong” in 1960 when he made his famous speech about the role of religious faith in the life of our nation.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Writer
Denver’s Archbishop Charles Chaput is speaking out about the government’s misuse of the Catholic concept of common ground, saying that using this label to describe any health care proposal that includes abortion “a lie.”
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