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Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:53pm
Private adoption agencies in Virginia will be allowed to select adoptive parents in accordance with their religious beliefs, under a policy finalized by the Virginia Board of Social ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:43pm
Three Christian patriarchs living in Syria have issued a joint statement appealing for peace in the country and urging a rejection of any foreign intervention.
The message from the ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:33pm
A 100-foot Christmas tree was illuminated in St. Peter's Square on December 16.
Each year since 1982, when Blessed John Paul II introduced the tradition to the Vatican, the Christmas ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:23pm
Pope Benedict XVI led university students in a Vespers service at St. Peter's basilica on December 15, fulfilling an annual pre-Christmas tradition.
In his homily, the Holy Father ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:17pm
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced a new initiative to raise public awareness of domestic poverty.
Dedicating January to an observance of Poverty Awareness ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:12pm
A Catholic woman in Michigan has filed a federal lawsuit against the local school district, after her teenage son was expelled from a classroom for stating his opposition to ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:08pm
A Buddhist community in Myanmar is threatening to expel a monk who has been involved with the movement to promote democracy in the Asian country.
The Sadhu Parivatti monastery, with ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:05pm
One of the world's leading scholars of Byzantine liturgy has told Catholic News Service that Church leaders "so froze the liturgy from the Council of Trent right up until the Second ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 3:03pm
Chicago's Cardinal Francis George was scheduled to meet privately with Illinois Governor Pat Quinn on Friday, December 16, to discuss the Catholic politician's public stand in favor of ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 2:54pm
The killing of a prominent Christian activist in India's troubled Orissa state has roused new fears of violence as the Christmas season approaches.
Rabindra Parichaa, a touring Catholic ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 1:10pm
In his annual message for the World Day of Peace, Pope Benedict XVI highlights the role that idealistic young people can play in building peace in the future, and stresses the importance ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:27am
The Archdiocese of St. Paul - Minneapolis has determined that a host that turned "blood red" at a local parish in July did so because of a fungus.
"Exhaustive biological analysis by an ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:26am
Joined by the leaders of Northern Ireland's Anglican, Methodist, and Presbyterian communities, Cardinal Seán Brady of Armagh traveled to Westminster to urge lawmakers not to adopt a ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:24am
The Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People has issued a Christmas message to seafarers.
"The celebration of Em[m]anuel, the 'God with us' ? invites us ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:23am
The Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community is urging the European Union not to fund embryonic stem-cell research in Horizon 2020, its $104-billion research ...
Fri, 12/16/2011 - 4:21am
A Dutch government commission has found that at least 800 priests and religious--105 of whom are still alive--abused children in Catholic institutions between 1945 and 1985.
"To ...
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 5:04pm
The world should have a "supranational" regulatory agency with power to enforce environmental rules, suggests the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Addressing ...
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 4:59pm
Migrants living in the developed world are sending more than $350 billion this year to relatives and friends in the Third World countries from which they come, according to a study by the ...
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 4:54pm
A Catholic priest in St. Paul, Minnesota has been sentenced to a year in prison for sexual abuse of a woman he was counseling.
Father Christopher Wenthe was ordered by the court to pay ...
Thu, 12/15/2011 - 4:47pm
The murder of two Christians in Mosul, Iraq on December 14 has raised new fears among the members of the country's religious minority as Christmas approaches.
Chaldean Catholic ...
