Archive for March 8, 2006
Supreme Court refuses to hear appeal involving anti-Catholic statue
The U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal this week involving a constitutional challenge to an anti-Catholic statue. The... Read more
Christian leaders applaud arrests in Alabama church fires
The Christian Defense Coalition and National Clergy Council have commended federal and state law enforcement for stemming hate crimes against... Read more
'Choose Life' license plate lawsuit wins in appeals court
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s second attempt to ban the phrase "Choose Life" from... Read more
Catholic agencies call for funding for humanitarian, development activities
Catholic agencies are urging Congress to support essential funding for urgent humanitarian and development activities around the world as it... Read more
Don’t neglect rural peoples, but guarantee real development, Vatican representative urges U.N.
On Tuesday, Archbishop Janusz Bolonek, the Vatican’s apostolic nuncio to Uruguay, told members of a United Nations Conference on Agrarian... Read more
New Church movements, communities gather for historic Latin American meeting
Catholic leaders from across Latin America are descending on Bogotá, Columbia this week for the first meeting to discuss Ecclesial... Read more
Chilean bishop praises women for contribution to Church and humanity
On the occasion of International Women’s Day on Wednesday, the president of the Bishops’ Conference of Chile, Bishop Alejandro Goic,... Read more
Mexican archbishop denies Church receives money from drug trafficking
Archbishop Emilio Berlie Belaunzaran of Yucatan, Mexico, said this week the Church doesn’t accept money from suspicious sources and that... Read more
Holy See reminds its opposition to an “indigenous church” and to married priesthood in Latin America.
Through a letter sent to the Bishop of San Cristóbal de las Casas (México), Bishop. Felipe Arizmendi Esquivel, the Holy... Read more
