Archive for January 26, 2012

The Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis, Minn. ?w=200&h=150

Minnesota governor rejects plan for stadium near basilica

Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton does not want the Vikings' new football stadium to be built near the Basilica of Saint... Read more

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Spanish government seeks to add parental consent to abortion law

Spain’s Minister of Justice, Alberto Ruiz Gallardon, announced on Jan. 25 that the government will work to change the country’s... Read more

Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl at the 2012 March for Life in Washington, D.C.?w=200&h=150

Cardinal Wuerl thinks Church can win contraception fight

Cardinal Donald Wuerl of Washington, D.C. believes that the Church can win its fight against the Obama administration’s contraception mandate... Read more

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By Michelle La Rosa

Fr. Lombardi: Vatican corruption charges ‘well beyond reality’

The official Vatican spokesman says an Italian television broadcast claiming to disclose financial corruption at the Vatican exaggerated the situation. Read more

The presentation of the new book on St. John of Avila in Rome?w=200&h=150

By Alan Holdren

Next Church doctor is model for evangelization

Today's world can learn a lot from St. John of Avila, according to those who have studied the life of... Read more

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan speaks to the press at the November 2011 USCCB meeting?w=200&h=150

Archbishop Dolan says Obama administration 'treats pregnancy as disease'

Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, head of the U.S. bishops' conference, says the Obama administration has revoked the religious freedom of... Read more

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Catholic Campaign for Human Development spent $11.4 million over its budget

Father José Eduardo de Oliveira e Silva has over 420,000 followers on Instagram and 130,000 on YouTube.

Priest accused of being involved in alleged plot to assassinate president of Brazil

Cardinal Tarcisio Isao Kikuchi during an interview with CNA in Rome on Friday, Oct. 18, 2024.

Archbishop of Tokyo: An aging society like Japan’s will not be able to survive

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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