By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted of Phoenix is planning to strip a local medical center of its Catholic status tomorrow if it does not meet his demands to guarantee compliance with Church teachings.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A new study on religious tolerance has revealed an alarming increase in discrimination against Christians as a result of the encroachment of secularism into European society.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
The secretary of the Vatican's Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life said he does not expect the results of the ongoing Visitation of U.S. women's religious communities to cause any dramatic changes in the life of U.S. women religious.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
After a two year investigation by some of the world's top Marian theologians, Bishop David L. Ricken of the diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin has approved Marian apparitions seen by Adele Brise in 1859.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A Vatican investigation has declared Passionist Father Ignatius Spencer, the great, great, great uncle of Diana, Princess of Wales, to have lived a life of heroic virtue, thus paving the way for his eventual canonization.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In the wake of the Baghdad bombing of a cathedral that left dozens dead, news has surfaced from Somalia about a teenage girl who, after being repeatedly tortured by her own parents for embracing Christianity, was found shot to death in a neighboring community.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois is taking on the state's "Catholic" governor who claimed his faith is what led him to support a bill legalizing same-sex civil unions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Along with the worldwide Church, Pope Benedict XVI conducted a vigil for "nascent human life" in St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday evening in which he reminded the faithful that embryos are not just biological material but dynamic, autonomous individuals.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Pope Benedict has issued a post-synodal apostolic exhortation entitled,
Verbum Domini [The Word of the Lord], which is considered to be the most important Church document devoted to Sacred Scripture since the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (
Dei Verbum), which was promulgated in 1965.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In a surprising upset, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) elected Archbishop Timothy Dolan over sitting vice president Bishop Gerald Kicanas as the new president of the conference.
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