News
Month: February 2012
General
Will the White House back down? Bishop Zubik won’t.
From an article in yesterday’s edition of The Hill: Pressure to roll back the new contraception policy mounted quickly as the day wore on, driven by divisions among Democrats, mixed messages from President Obama’s […]
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Fr. Robert Barron: “The secularist state wants Catholicism off the public stage…”
… and relegated to a private realm where it cannot interfere with secularism’s totalitarian agenda. I realize that in using that particular term, I’m dropping a rhetorical bomb, but I am not doing so casually. […]
History
Two New American Saints, Three Notable Firsts
On Saturday, December 19, 2011, the Holy See announced His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had approved the Congregation for the Causes of Saints’ findings that miracles attributed to seven blesseds were authentic. This clears the […]
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Pope reflects on final prayer uttered by Jesus on the Cross
From Vatican Information Service: The prayer of Jesus at the moment of His death, as narrated by St. Mark and St. Matthew was the theme of Benedict XVI’s catechesis during his general audience, held this […]
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The bishops are standing up to the President. But what of Pelosi?
Now that the USCCB and dozens of bishops have sounded off against the Obama administration’s outrageous contraceptive mandate, I think it’s safe to say that the question on the mind of many Catholics is: “When […]
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The facts about about the HHS mandate
Six things to know, from the USCCB blog: 1. The mandate does not exempt Catholic charities, schools, universities, or hospitals. These institutions are vital to the mission of the Church, but HHS does not deem […]
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Proposition 8 now headed to the Supreme Court?
“A federal appeals court Tuesday”, reports the Los Angeles Times, “overturned Proposition 8 on narrow grounds, ruling that Californians took away a right from a minority group without justification when they approved the 2008 ban […]
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Pope’s 2012 Lenten Message focuses on virtue of charity
From Vatican Information Service: VATICAN CITY, 7 FEB 2012 (VIS) – Made public today was the 2012 Lenten Message of the Holy Father Benedict XVI, the title of which is taken from the Letter to […]
Opinion
Twenty-first Century Recusants
The Obama administration’s recent decision to require Catholic institutions to provide contraceptives through their health care plans has been met with firm resistance from Catholic leaders, and incredulity even from the president’s own supporters, who […]