January 11 CATHOLIC WORLD NEWS
Irish bishops urge lawmakers against allowing abortion CWN - 9 hours ago
In testimony before a committee of lawmakers weighing a change in the country’s abortion ban, the Irish bishops’ conference stressed that current policies allow for treatment of women with...
UN focus on abortion ignores deadly and preventable diseasesCWN - 4 hours ago
A new study published in The Lancet shows that common diseases such as diarrhea cause millions of needless deaths worldwide each year, while UN health officials devote more attention to less urgent...
New York’s Cardinal Dolan appalled by Cuomo abortion plan CWN - 4 hours ago
New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan has decried a proposal by the state’s Governor Andrew Cuomo to expand access to abortion, saying that the measure would likely increase New York’s abortion rate,...
French cardinal warns against manipulating definition of marriageCWN - 4 hours ago
Cardinal Philippe Barbarin of Lyon, who will lead a mass demonstration in favor of traditional marriage on January 13, has warned that a government proposal to legalize same-sex marriage could have...
Visiting bishops report rising tensions in Holy LandCWN - 9 hours ago
Following a visit to the Holy Land, a group of Catholic bishops from Europe and North America have issued a statement warning of “increasing polarization within Israel and Palestine.”The seven...
Boston archdiocese unveils new reconfiguration planCWN - 4 hours ago
The Boston archdiocese has announced the first step in a new plan to reorganization parishes, creating new “collaboratives” that will combine 28 parish churches into 12 new administrative units. The...
African prelates denounce new Anglican stand on homosexual bishopsCWN - 9 hours ago
Leading Anglican prelates in Africa have denounced the decision by the Church of England to allow openly homosexual bishops, saying that the move could destroy the unity of the worldwide Anglican...
Mosul: Christians in fear following murdersCWN - 16 hours ago
Christians in Mosul -- Iraq’s third-largest city, near the ancient city of Nineveh -- are increasingly living in fear following the murders of a Christian teacher and a university student. On...
Report: some Indian Christians denied water unless they convert to HinduismCWN - 16 hours ago
A lay Catholic organization is reporting that some tribal Christians in Palghar, a city of 50,000 in the west-central Indian state of Maharashtra, are being denied water and firewood unless they...
Judge dismisses Protestant college’s suit against HHS mandateCWN - 16 hours ago
A federal district court judge has dismissed a Protestant college’s lawsuit against the HHS mandate. Judge Christine Arguello, whom President George W. Bush appointed to the bench in 2008, ruled...
Russian patriarch: punish desecration without limiting free speechCWN - 16 hours ago
In the wake of a legislative proposal that would criminalize offenses against religious sensibilities, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church called upon the state to punish desecration without...
Excommunicated priest formally notified of laicizationCWN - 4 hours ago
Roy Bourgeois, the former priest who was excommunicated in 2008 and dismissed from the Maryknoll society last year, has been formally notified of his laicization. Bourgeois received a letter from...
Congo rebels offer ceasefireCWN - 9 hours ago
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have announced a ceasefire, after negotiations in Uganda. Leaders of the “March 23 Movement” urged the government of President Joseph Kabila to join in...
Nearly 10% of members of Congress are Jesuit-educated CWN - 15 hours ago
52 of the 535 members of Congress attended a Jesuit college or university, according to the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. 21 of them attended Georgetown University. The Jesuit...
Justice Sotomayor describes herself as ‘lapsed Catholic’CWN - 15 hours ago
In her newly published memoir, My Beloved World, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor addresses the subject of her religion.“I think I’m called ‘lapsed Catholic’--Mass for weddings and...
Priest returns to Zambia after deportation order revokedCWN - January 9
Father Viateur Banyangandora, who was expelled from Zambia last year after delivering a sermon critical of government agricultural policies, has returned to pastoral ministry in the country’s...
Canonization this year for John Paul II?CWN - January 9
A prominent Italian cardinal has predicted that Blessed John Paul II will be canonized soon. "If not this year, it will be 2014," Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re told the ANSA news service. The...
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