Archive for July 16, 2013

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By Carl Bunderson

Philosopher lauds Pope's thriving Latin Twitter account

With media outlets taking notice of the unexpected success of the Pope's tweets in Latin, a scholar conversant in the... Read more

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Proposition 8 still applies in California, backers say

Proposition 8 backers have filed a legal brief saying that the ballot measure defining marriage as a union of a... Read more

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Argentine bishop turning 100 assures Pope is 'a holy man'

Bishop Guillermo Leaden, who resides in Buenos Aires and will turn 100 on July 20, reflected on the election of... Read more

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Blessed Chiara Badano an 'excellent' model for World Youth Day

A friend of Blessed Chiara Badano, a patroness of World Youth Day 2013 who united her suffering from cancer to... Read more

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Bishop catechists for World Youth Day 2013 revealed

During World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, more than 250 bishops from around the world will preside at catechetical... Read more

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By Adelaide Mena

Military archbishop welcomes religious freedom coalition

Archbishop Timothy Broglio has welcomed a coalition for religious freedom in the U.S. military as legislation aiming to protect religious... Read more

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Retired bishop who served Chicago’s Polish community dies

Bishop Thaddeus J. Jakubowski, a retired auxiliary bishop of the Chicago archdiocese who worked with the city's Polish population, died... Read more