Salvation Army bell-ringers may not be welcome on the campus of the University of California-Berkeley after the student government condemned the organization because it does not condone homosexuality.
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The U.S. Supreme Court announced on Friday that will hear both a challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and a suit challenging California's statewide ban on same-sex marriage.
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The U.S. Catholic bishops are planning to launch a five-part strategy or "call to prayer" after Christmas which will invite Catholics to pray for rebuilding a culture of life and for increased protections of religious liberty.
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A federal judge in Brooklyn, New York delivered a blow to the Obama Administration this week when he ruled that the lawsuit seeking to invalidate the controversial birth control mandate for the Archdiocese of New York can proceed.
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Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSIt's payback time in Washington. Special interest groups who voted heavily for President Barack Obama in the last election are now publicly demanding that he repay them with favors.
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Reports are popping up across the country about thieves who are cashing in on cyber-sales by stealing the gifts off front porches and even breaking down church doors to rob gifts left under parish Giving Trees.
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Contrary to new rumors that the Vatican will issue its ruling about the authenticity of the apparitions at Medjugorje by the end of this month, the Vatican says it will take much longer.
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After a scandalous editorial calling for the ordination of women appeared in the December 3 issue of the
National Catholic Reporter (NCR), the faithful have become fed up with the magazine's persistent dissidence and are calling upon the local bishop to strip the publication of the right to call itself Catholic.
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A homeless man featured on the cover of a book led to the reunion of an estranged husband and father with the family he longed to see again.
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As expected, the U.S. Senate rejected ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
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