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US Association of Consecrated Virgins condemns ‘shocking’ new rules
July 13, 2018
Staff Reporter
The document says it is 'not essential' that a woman should have 'kept her body in perfect continence'
Why Trump picked Kavanaugh over ‘folk hero’ Amy Coney Barrett
July 11, 2018
Michael Warren Davis
There is a palpable sense of disappointment among conservative Christians, but are they right to be downbeat?
Priests apologise for wearing clerical attire at Trump rally
July 11, 2018
Catholic News Service
A local bishop said he was 'shocked' to see them prominently seated right behind the podium
Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh as Supreme Court Nominee
July 10, 2018
Carol Zimmermann
Kavanaugh is a Catholic who worked for the late Justice Scalia
The Catholics who could be the next Supreme Court justice
July 07, 2018
Kevin Daley
Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh are young jurists of high regard in the conservative legal establishment
On slavery, no compromise was possible. The same goes for Roe v Wade
July 05, 2018
Matthew Schmitz
US abortion law is based on a great lie. But the new Supreme Court Justice could help to strike it down
Bishops hold Mass at US border
July 02, 2018
Rhina Guidos
'There's a human face and that human face always points us to Christ,' the Bishop of Brownsville said
Civil Rights Commission drops complaint against cake baker
January 01, 1970
Jacob Comello
One of the commissioners of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission called Jack Phillips’ religious freedom a sham, a “despicable piece of rhetoric” simply meant to conceal prejudices. But his attorneys said the commission probably has far stronger biases of their own against religious people. Phillips, the Christian cake baker whose religious refusal to craft a
Symposium explores how nationalism, with care, can serve the common good
January 01, 1970
Dennis Sadowski
American nationalism can be a force for unity that serves the common good when a country strives to open opportunities for all members of society despite their religious or ethical traditions, said participants in a Washington symposium. Just the same, the symposium heard, it’s when nationalist views seek to limit participation by those who are
‘Code of silence’ allows domestic abuse to go unchallenged, bishop says
January 01, 1970
The Catholic Herald
Violence comes in many forms, but its goal is always control, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston said in his homily at the fourth annual national vigil Mass marking October as of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Violence in the home, Bishop Brennan said, is common, not sporadic like epidemics. Whether it is physical, verbal, emotional,
‘Code of silence’ allows domestic abuse to go unchallenged, bishop says
January 01, 1970
Colleen Rowan
Violence comes in many forms, but its goal is always control, Bishop Mark E. Brennan of Wheeling-Charleston said in his homily at the fourth annual national vigil Mass marking October as of Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Violence in the home, Bishop Brennan said, is common, not sporadic like epidemics. Whether it is physical, verbal, emotional,
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