Plans for the nationwide Fortnight for Freedom program, an unprecedented campaign sponsored by the U.S. Catholic Church to call attention to the critical role of religious liberty in American society, will begin with Mass in the nation's oldest diocese, include protests, prayer and fasting at the parish level, and will conclude with the ringing of the bells in every Catholic steeple in America at 12 noon on July 4.
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A total of 43 dioceses, hospitals, schools and church agencies filed 12 lawsuits across the country today, charging the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' birth control mandate with being a violation of religious freedom.
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The horrors of socialized medicine became startlingly clear last week when a newborn infant died in a UK hospital after his mother was forced to give birth to him in the waiting room.
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The Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in southern France is one of the most visited pilgrimage sites in the world with millions drawn to the scene where Mary appeared to a poor, 14 year-old peasant girl named Bernadette Soubiroux.
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A high school teacher in North Carolina found herself forced to engage well-informed students who took her to task when she gave out misleading information about President Barack Obama during class - a debate that lead to the teacher threatening the student with arrest.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
During a speech that encouraged graduates to embrace relativism when dealing with the subject of faith in the public square, Kathleen Sebelius' much anticipated address at Georgetown University on May 18 was anything but pleasant as she found herself being heckled just two minutes into her speech.
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Proponents of same-sex marriage are now taking the fight into Catholic institutions with both a parish and a school coming under fire in recent weeks for defending Church teaching on homosexuality - on their own property!
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Depictions of Mary under this title often show her inside a monstrance where she is pointing to a host radiating from her chest.
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The scriptural basis for this title is the Song of Songs 4:4, “Your neck is the Tower of David, build on layers, hung round with a thousand bucklers, and each the shield of a hero.”
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Known as “England’s Nazareth”, the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham supposedly originated in 1061 with a noble widow named Lady Richeldis.
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