Vatican authority announces international conference on pastoral care for...
Vatican City (CNA) - The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerant People, Msgr. Agostino Marchetto, announced plans for a Continental Conference in October,...
View ArticleItalian Nuns Refuse to Kill Eluana Englaro
By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent MILAN (LifeSiteNews.com) – The nuns who run the hospice in which Eluana Englaro has been living for 14 years have refused to carry out the court order to remove her...
View ArticleVatican Attacked for Defending Natural Family
By Hilary White, Rome Correspondent ROME (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Vatican has been attacked for its defence of the natural family and of the countries in which the natural family is still recognised...
View ArticleHoly See Press Office on Bertone – Berlusconi phone conversation: We...
VATICAN CITY, 6 FEB 2009 (VIS) – Holy See Press Office Director Fr. Federico Lombardi S.J. today released the following declaration denying a claim made by the Italian newspaper “La Stampa” that...
View ArticleD.C. same-sex ‘marriage’ bill fails to protect religious freedom, archdiocese...
Washington D.C., Dec 15, 2009 / 07:40 pm (CNA).- The City Council of Washington D.C. voted today to legalize same-sex “marriage,” causing the Archdiocese of Washington to state that it failed to...
View ArticleNew papal decree clarifies role of deacons and result of defections on marriage
Denver, Colo., Dec 15, 2009 / 05:16 pm (CNA).- This morning the Vatican published a Motu Proprio from Pope Benedict called “Omnium in Mentem” and dated October 26. According to J.D. Flynn, a canon...
View ArticleSide-by-side comparison of the language of the Hyde Amendment, the Federal...
WASHINGTON—The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has made available a side-by-side comparison of the language of the Hyde Amendment, the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and...
View Article‘Congress Just Signed Millions of Death Warrants’ says International Pro-Life...
FRONT ROYAL, VA, Dec. 17 /Christian Newswire/ — Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, president of Human Life International, today responded to the U.S. Senate’s passing of a massive $447 billion omnibus spending...
View ArticleThe Rutherford Institute Defends Second Grader Forced by School Officials to...
TAUNTON, Mass., Dec. 16 /Christian Newswire/ — The Rutherford Institute has come to the defense of the family of a second grader who was allegedly forced by school officials to undergo psychological...
View ArticleOrganization uses name of Blessed Mother to finance abortions in Mexico city
Mexico City, Mexico, Dec 18, 2009 / 01:07 am (CNA).- The Abortion Fund for Social Justice, “Women, Abortion, Reproduction and Accompaniment,” announced this week the launching of the “Maria Network,” a...
View ArticlePope reflects on importance of religion for peace in the world
On Thursday in the Vatican, the Holy Father met with and received the Letters of Credence from eight new ambassadors to the Holy See. During his dialogue with the diplomats, the Pope spoke on the...
View ArticleJudge upholds ruling against photographers who declined work at homosexual...
Attorneys for a small photography company charged with violating anti-discrimination laws for declining to photograph a same-sex “commitment ceremony” are planning to appeal a New Mexico judge’s...
View ArticleAbortion clinic escort strikes Planned Parenthood investigator Lila Rose
San Jose, Calif., Dec 19, 2009 / 03:37 am (CNA).- Legal charges are pending against a male Planned Parenthood escort who struck pro-life activist Lila Rose on the hands on Thursday outside an abortion...
View ArticleSen. Nelson accepts Reid abortion provisions in exchange for medicaid kickbacks
Washington D.C., Dec 19, 2009 / 04:54 pm (CNA).- This afternoon Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) announced that he will now vote for cloture on the Senate health care bill and for the bill itself. The move...
View ArticleVenerable John Paul II’s life gives answers to society’s problems, Supreme...
CNA STAFF, Dec 21, 2009 / 03:21 pm (CNA).- Following the declaration by Pope Benedict XVI that his predecessor John Paul II lived a life of “heroic virtue,” CNA spoke with Carl Anderson, the head of...
View ArticleSebelius: Senate health care plan will pay for abortions
Washington D.C., Jan 4, 2010 / 06:53 pm (CNA).- In a little-publicized interview given with the Feminist blog, “BlogHer.com,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius praised the language...
View ArticleU.S. Postal Service recognizes Mother Teresa
Washington D.C., Jan 4, 2010 / 12:02 pm (CNA).- Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta will appear on a U.S. postal stamp in 2010, the postal service announced last week. “With this stamp,” notes the press...
View ArticleMedjugorje bishop says Cardinal Schönborn’s visit brings greater suffering to...
Medjugorje, Bosnia, Jan 4, 2010 / 06:58 pm (CNA).- Most Rev. Ratko Peri?, the Bishop of Mostar-Duvno in Bosnia-Herzegovina, released a statement in which he criticizes Vienna, Austria’s Cardinal...
View ArticleZoogle.com launches Catholic social networking venture
CNA STAFF, Jan 5, 2010 / 02:09 am (CNA).- A new Catholic social networking website named Zoogle is claiming that a “new era” in mass communications gives the Church an opportunity to bypass a “media...
View ArticleMost voters favor abortion ban for federally subsidized health plans
Washington D.C., Jan 5, 2010 / 10:22 pm (CNA).- A new national telephone survey reports that a majority of American voters favor a ban on abortion coverage in federally subsidized health insurance...
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