By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A critical shortage of priests in Baltimore, the first Catholic diocese to be established in America, is forcing parishes to reduce daily and Sunday Mass schedules.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
New York City's Archbishop Timothy Dolan is once again publicly rebuking
The New York Times for its blatant anti-Catholic bias, this time over its gushing reviews of an offensive art exhibit and play that profane Catholicism.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Once upon a time, the only people in the Catholic Church who were calling for reform were "cafeteria Catholics" but the advent of theologically conservative Catholic bloggers who are not afraid to expose dissent is beginning to have an impact on the Church in America.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
A man has been taken into custody after severely beating a bishop inside the rectory of Sacred Heart Cathedral in British Columbia.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Criticism is raging from all corners about a recent article appearing in the Vatican's
L'Osservatore Romano newspaper in which the crude Homer Simpson character is declared to be Catholic.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Two American prelates are among the list of 24 men who will be elevated to cardinal in a November 20 consistory.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Bishops from the state of New York have issued a new pastoral letter stating that the right to life trumps all other issues in the voting booth, including party loyalty and other issues such as the economy or education.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
According to newly released statistics from the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, the past year saw positive signs of growth in the Church.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
In remarks given at a conference in Rome last week, the current head of the Vatican's Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura said that Catholic politicians who publicly espouse gravely sinful acts such as abortion must not only repent of the error, but do so in public in order to repair the grave scandal caused as a result of their actions.
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By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS
Staff Journalist
Citing a lack of cooperation in instituting "necessary reforms," Archbishop George Lucas of Omaha has formally suppressed the Catholic entity known as Intercessors of the Lamb.
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