By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley has asked an Iraqi woman known as the "Mother Theresa" of Iraq, to start a new order, the Daughters of Mary, Our Lady of Nazareth.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After being suspended in the wake of unproven allegations made against him, the popular speaker Fr. John Corapi has announced that after 20 years in ministry, he's leaving the Catholic priesthood.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New analysis by a researcher at the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) has found that the number of Catholic marriages celebrated in the Church has declined 60 percent since 1972.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A years-long spate of crimes committed against Catholic churches in California continues as police report a 780 year-old relic of St. Anthony was stolen yesterday just hours after it was put on display in a parish near Los Angeles.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In spite of a letter from Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron forbidding clergy in his diocese to participate in a Mass that took place during a conference by heretical Catholic groups this weekend, a 78 year-old retired priest defied the ruling and is now under review for presiding over the liturgy.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The inauguration of Nigeria's new Christian president, Goodluck Jonathan, has set off a new wave of violence against Christians by Muslim extremists in northern Nigeria, including a June 7 blast that killed 11 people and caused extensive damage to St. Patrick's Cathedral.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Archbishop Allen Vigneron of Detroit has issued a cautionary letter to the clergy of his diocese about an upcoming conference being sponsored by the American Catholic Council (ACC), an umbrella organization comprised of some of the most radical dissident groups in the country.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
An Episcopal church in Bladensburg, Maryland became the first in the nation to convert to Roman Catholicism yesterday when their application was officially approved by the local bishop.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new bill introduced in the U.S. House aimed at stifling "homophobic opposition" to same-sex adoptions could lead to a shut-down of all religiously affiliated adoption agencies in the U.S.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Satanic graffiti that was spray-painted on the doors of the Cathedral of St. Paul in St. Paul, Minnesota last weekend is being investigated by police as a possible hate crime.
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