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Candida Moss, a professor of early Christianity at the University of Notre Dame and a practicing Catholic, wants to shatter what she calls the “myth” of martyrdom in the Christian faith. Sunday school tales of early Christians being rounded up at their secret catacomb meetings and thrown to the lions by evil Romans are mere…
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A South African cardinal who last week participated in the conclave to elect Pope Francis suggested in a recent interview with the BBC that pedophilia is an illness and not a crime. Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier, the Archbishop of Durban, spoke with Stephen Nolan for BBC Radio 5 about the Catholic Church child sex abuse scandal.…
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation celebrated its victory in removing all things religious from the football uniforms of a combined Catholic / public school team. Making as little sense to many as removing the "G" from the Green Bay Packers' helmets, a Wisconsin co-op football team composed of the private Catholic Messmer High School and…
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As news of St. Louis Cardinal great Stan Musial’s death spread, Rocco Palmo tweeted: As “The Man” goes to his reward, a memorable Dolan quote on receiving the red hat: “The only Cardinal I ever wanted to be was Stan Musial.” Of course, Musial was not just an amazing baseball player, admired by everyone. He wasn’t…
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More than 1,000 Catholic priests in England recently signed an open letter warning that proposed gay marriage legislation could reignite "centuries of persecution" for Roman Catholics. The proposed legislation would allow churches in England and Whales to perform same-sex marriage ceremonies. U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron has backed the gay marriage proposal and has pledged to legalize gay marriage by 2015.…
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Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and in Europe, the Catholic Church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage. The latest salvo came on Monday (Dec. 17), with a front-page article in the Vatican’s semiofficial newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano. Historian Lucetta Scaraffia compared proponents of gay marriage, with their championing of “marriage equality,”…
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Ireland's government is to introduce a new law and regulations to clarify that abortions are permissible when the life — but not health — of the mother is at risk,
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The defeat of Manny Pacquiao in the fight against Timothy Bradley was not really painful. Like the 80 out of 81 international boxing judges, Filipinos knew in their minds and hearts that their idol did not really lose that fight… But this fight with Juan Manuel Marquez was a shocker. In the sixth round, with…
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On Wednesday, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals granted our motion for an injunction against the U.S. government's enforcement of the so-called "HHS Mandate," a series of regulations requiring virtually all employers to pay for their employees' contraception, sterilization, and early abortion-inducing drugs. Our client, Frank O'Brien, is a St. Louis business owner who takes…
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