In a moving address at Leicester's Anglican Cathedral, the retired head of the Catholic Church in England, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor spoke against what he called a "subtle and silent" process of dehumanizing the elderly in western society.
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Comments submitted to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) by the General Counsel of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on the controversial birth control mandate say the rules still force religious employers to provide services they find morally objectionable, and urge the administration to resolve "in favor of more, not less, religious freedom."
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Authorities are looking for vandals who scrawled anti-Catholic slogans on the walls of historic Holy Cross Church in Santa Cruz, California, and broke into the church where they damaged a baptismal font that was a gift from Blessed Junipero Serra, founder of the California missions.
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In a move that many are calling a direct challenge to the U.S. Bishops, Georgetown University has chosen the author of the HHS mandate as commencement speaker for its Public Policy Institute.
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The U.S. Bishop's ninth annual report on the priestly sex abuse problem has found that only a small percentage of cases reported in 2011 were current, with most dealing with allegations made about abuse that occurred decades ago.
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Even though the group of dissident nuns known as the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) is now under the control of the Vatican, the group's annual convention, scheduled for August and featuring New Age "visionary" Barbara Marx Hubbard, is being permitted to go forward.
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Speaking on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI, U.S. papal nuncio Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano delivered a rousing speech at the Pontifical College Josephinum in which he called on American Catholics to "lead the entire Church in the world" into renewal.
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Political strategists are warning that the U.S. bishops planned two weeks of protest in June and July could lead to powerful images of nuns and priests being led away in handcuffs, scenes that could have an enormous impact on the 2012 presidential election.
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A group dedicated to enforcing its version of the separation of church and state has reported Peoria bishop Daniel Jenky to the IRS after the prelate delivered a fiery homily in which he compared Obama to Hitler and Stalin.
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Following a presentation this week by activist Sandra Fluke on contraception access, a group of more than 100 Georgetown students and alumni have petitioned University president John DeGioia to allow them equal time to present "the virtues of the Church's teachings on sexuality and contraception. . ."
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