Archive for April 15, 2004

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After hectic Holy Week, Pope goes on mountain excursion

The Vatican Press office announced on Friday, that owing to the strenuous liturgical ceremonies of Holy Week and Easter, Pope... Read more

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Ignorance of ancient languages threatens historical studies, Pontifical Council says

The Pontifical Committee of Historical Sciences, founded in 1954 by Pope Pius XII, realeased a statement on the occasion of... Read more

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Catholics must be coherent in faith and politics: Archbishop Chaput

Catholics must be coherent in their political choices and vote for political leaders whose platforms are in line with their... Read more

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Catholic hospitals weigh Pope’s teaching on treatment for patients in a vegetative state

Catholic hospitals in the United States are deliberating whether to uphold Pope John Paul II’s latest teaching on treatment offered... Read more

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Record $11.9 million in grants for poor U.S. dioceses

The Catholic Home Missions Appeal will award a record $11.9 million in grants this year to the poorest dioceses in... Read more

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Sen. Kerry meets Washington archbishop

Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry met with Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, archbishop of Washington, for the first time yesterday. Read more

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Colombia to include abortion pills in “family planning” programs

The debate over the morning after pill has reached Colombia where, as in Peru and Chile, anti-life groups—with the support... Read more

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Iraqi Catholics call on Arab Muslim countries to condemn terrorism

Fr. Nizar Semann, an Iraqi priest from the region of Mossul, told the Fides News Agency that the time has... Read more

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President Joe Biden awarded the Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards, photographed here with Kirk Adams and First Lady Jill Biden, in a photo posted to his X account, Nov. 20, 2024.

Biden awards Medal of Freedom to former Planned Parenthood leader Cecile Richards

Missouri’s bishops are urging the state to forgo executing a Christopher Collings, who was convicted of the 2007 abduction, rape, torture and murder of a 9-year-old girl. Collings is scheduled to be executed on Dec. 3, 2024.

Missouri bishops urge state to refrain from executing convicted child-killer next month

The Joseph Ratzinger-Benedict XVI Vatican Foundation awards the Ratzinger Prize to Notre Dame theologian Cyril O’Regan and Japanese sculptor Etsurō Sotoo at in a ceremony at the Vatican on Nov. 22, 204.

Prestigious Ratzinger Prize awarded to Notre Dame theologian, Japanese sculptor at Vatican

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Data show abortions dropped by nearly 40% in Iowa after six-week ban

Police are searching for a thief who entered the Church of St. Francis of Assisi on West 31st Street in Manhattan on Nov. 20, 2024, and stole a gold rose that memorializes a priest who perished in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

Police search for thief who stole 9/11 memorial gold rose from New York Catholic church

A close-up of the tomb of St. Ceclia at the basilica dedicated to her in Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

PHOTOS: St. Cecilia, martyr and patron saint of music, rests in Roman basilica named for her

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U.S. bishops: Federal ‘gender identity’ rule could block Catholics from government contracts

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