By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Benedict XVI created 22 new cardinals from 13 countries — including three from the United States and Canada — placing red hats on their heads and calling them to lives of even greater love and service to the church. The churchmen who joined the [...]
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Pope creates 22 new cardinals, including three from US, Canada
Posted in CNS, english on February 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Obama compromise on contraceptive mandate ‘unacceptable,’ bishops say
Posted in CNS, english on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In an move that appears unlikely to end the controversy over a federal mandate that all health insurance plans include contraception and sterilization free of charge, President Barack Obama outlined a plan that would allow religious employers not to offer such services to their employees [...]
Administration issues new position on HHS mandate (update)
Posted in CNS, english on February 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — In an move that appears unlikely to end the controversy over a federal mandate that all health insurance plans include contraception and sterilization free of charge, President Barack Obama outlined a plan that would allow religious employers not to offer such services to their employees [...]
Vatican sex abuse investigator says bishops should be more accountable
Posted in CNS, english on February 8, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — The Vatican’s top sex abuse investigator called for greater accountability under church law of bishops who shield or fail to discipline pedophile priests. Msgr. Charles Scicluna, promoter of justice for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, made his remarks to reporters in Rome [...]
Military chaplains told not to read archbishop’s letter on HHS mandate
Posted in CNS, english on February 6, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — A directive from the U.S. Army chief of chaplains that a letter opposing the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate not be read from the pulpit by Catholic military chaplains violated First Amendment rights of free speech and free exercise of religion, according to the head of [...]
CPA leader says Catholic press key to covering religious liberty issues
Posted in CNS, english on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
CHICAGO (CNS) — Catholic Press Month, celebrated in February, “comes at a particularly critical moment” this year, said Greg Erlandson, president of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.
New questions, challenges confront Episcopal-turned-Catholic leader
Posted in CNS, english on January 26, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) — Father Jeffrey N. Steenson is finding that there are a lot of new roads to travel and new questions to resolve since his Jan. 1 appointment as head of the Houston-based Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for former Anglicans who want to [...]
Evangelization can never be just a marginal concern, pope says
Posted in CNS, english on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Evangelization must never be a marginal concern for the church, Pope Benedict XVI said. From bishops to religious and the lay community, “All elements of the great mosaic of the church must feel themselves strongly called on by the Lord’s mandate to preach the Gospel, [...]
HHS delays, but does not change, rule on contraceptive coverage
Posted in CNS, english on January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Editors: Adds new material after third paragraph; other minor editing. UPDATED version of HHS-CONTRACEPTIVES of Jan. 20, 2012: By Nancy Frazier O’Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — Although Catholic leaders vowed to fight on, the Obama administration has turned down repeated requests from Catholic bishops, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations to revise its religious [...]
Ruling over teacher’s firing could have far-reaching implications
Posted in CNS, english on January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — The direction the courts will take with other cases related to religious employment is far from clear, but the Supreme Court’s Jan. 11 ruling opens a whole track of possibilities. The decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC held that fired teacher Cheryl Perich could not sue under [...]
