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February 3rd, 2012%
Read the full article here: White House’s defense of mandate called inaccurate, misleading
Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2012 / 01:05 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- An expert in religious freedom says that the White House’s defense of the contraception mandate contains inaccurate information and does not address the main complaints raised by its critics. Brian Walsh, executive director of the American Religious Freedom program at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, said that some of the the claims made by the White House are “not factually accurate” and a number of its points “aren’t even relevant.” “It’s certainly not a direct response” to the concerns of religious freedom that have been raised in recent days, but is simply restating the administration’s position on contraception,Walsh told n Feb. 2. Walsh’s remarks were aimed at a Feb. 1 blog post by Cecilia Muñoz, the Director of the White House’s Domestic Policy Council, who attempted to clarify “the facts” surrounding the controversial mandate. On Jan. 20, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that virtually all employers would be required to purchase health insurance plans that cover contraception – including drugs that cause abortion – and sterilization at no cost to employees. The very narrow religious exemption to the mandate includes only those organizations that exist for the purpose of inculcating religious values and that both primarily serve and employ members of their own faith. …
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February 2nd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Business leaders decry HHS contraception mandate
Washington D.C., Feb 2, 2012 / 06:00 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Catholic leaders of both religious and secular businesses across the country are denouncing the Obama administration’s contraception mandate for forcing a moral dilemma on them and negatively impacting their companies. Jonathan Reyes, president of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Denver,
February 1st, 2012%
Go straight to: Susan G. Komen pulls funding for Planned Parenthood
Dallas, Texas, Feb 1, 2012 / 01:26 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- In the midst of a congressional investigation, Planned Parenthood has lost the support of the nation’s leading breast cancer charity, Susan G. Komen for the Cure. Last year Planned Parenthood received roughly $680,000 in grants from Komen and $580,000 the year before. Komen spokeswoman Leslie Aun told the Associated Press that the cutoff is a result of the charity’s recently adopted criteria which prohibits giving grants to organizations undergoing investigations by local, state or federal authorities. Planned Parenthood has been the subject of a federal investigation headed by Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-Fla.) since last year.
February 1st, 2012%
Read full article here: Winners of 2012 Longest Married Couple contest announced
San Bernardino, Calif., Feb 1, 2012 / 03:39 am ( .- The faith-based marriage enrichment program Worldwide Marriage Encounter has announced the 2012 state winners of its Longest Married Couple contest: a Nevada couple who married in 1933. “The number of years many of these couples are married is just awesome,” Scott and Karen Seaborn, the U.S. leadership team for Worldwide Marriage Encounter, said of the contest entrants. “There are four couples married 78 years, many couples married 70 plus years and quite a few couples with 60 plus years of marriage. What a testament to having a commitment to a long marriage!” The project received 256 nominations from 47 states. The longest-married couple to be nominated is Wilbur and Theresa Faiss of Las Vegas, Nevada, who have been married for 78 years. They were married on April 14, 1933. The Faiss couple will be honored by the Seaborns in a special Feb…
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January 31st, 2012%
Go straight to: Obama administration’s commitment to religious freedom questioned
Washington D.C., Jan 31, 2012 / 06:04 am ( .- Dr. Thomas Farr believes that the Obama administration’s verbal commitment to protecting religious freedom around the globe is not being backed up with sufficient action. “The administration has invested far more energy and resources in the international advancement of LGBT rights than it has the advancement of religious freedom,” said Farr, who served as the original director of the State Department’s Office of International Religious Freedom. Farr told n Jan. 27 that the current administration is not doing enough to support “one of the most important foreign policy initiatives undertaken by the United States.” The topic of religious freedom was recently addressed in the video series “Conversations with America,” which features top State Department officials holding online discussions with leaders of non-governmental organizations and citizens from around the country.
January 26th, 2012%
Go directly to: Hearing highlights human rights abuses in Vietnam
Washington D.C., Jan 25, 2012 / 07:04 pm ( .- Witnesses at a Jan. 24 House subcommittee hearing on human rights abuses in Vietnam urged the U.S. government to intervene on behalf of those who are oppressed in other countries. Former U.S. congressman Anh “Joseph” Cao testified
January 23rd, 2012%
Read the full article here: Face of homeless is the face of Christ to Anchorage volunteers
Anchorage, Alaska, Jan 22, 2012 / 01:03 pm ( .- Iraq war veteran Samuel Paul Albers had come across hard times and was living at Brother Francis Shelter in Anchorage, Alaska in March 2011 when he came down with a chest cold and sinus infection. Thanks to a free clinic which is staffed by volunteers from Providence Alaska Medical Center also in Anchorage, Albers received much needed health care. Albers, who has a degree in human services, now works at the shelter, is moving into a case management position there, and has lived in his own home since August of 2011. As part of his new job, he counts heads after the shelter’s evening meal. The numbers are then relayed to Providence, which provides all dinners for the shelter every night of the year. Lately, the shelter has served between 200 and 275 meals a night. But many of the homeless also require basic medical care. …
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January 21st, 2012%
Go directly to: Obama administration refuses to change contraception mandate
Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2012 / 02:45 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The Obama administration announced Jan. 20 that it will not expand an exemption for religious groups that object to its requirement for health insurance plans to cover sterilization and contraception – including abortion-causing drugs – free of charge. Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, said in a Jan. 20 statement that religious employers who object to providing the coverage will be required to comply with the new law by Aug. 1, 2013, one year later than the initial deadline.
January 21st, 2012%
Read the full article here: Religious leaders blast HHS over contraception mandate
Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2012 / 06:31 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Numerous religious leaders slammed the Obama administration for violating consciences by refusing to reverse a contraception mandate and instead delay its full implementation by only a year. “Never before has the federal government forced individuals and organizations to go out into the marketplace and buy a product that violates their conscience,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the U.S. bishops’ conference. “This shouldn’t happen in a land where free exercise of religion ranks first in the Bill of Rights.” He called the decision “literally unconscionable” in a Jan. 20 response statement and said that the government is essentially “saying we have a year to figure out how to violate our consciences.” The cardinal-designate vowed that the bishops will work to overturn the mandate and institute freedom of conscience protections for all Americans.
January 20th, 2012%
Read the full article here: Native Americans overjoyed at news of first saint
Washington D.C., Jan 20, 2012 / 06:02 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The recent announcement that Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha has been approved for sainthood is generating great excitement among the Native American community. “There’s an awful lot of interest,” said Monsignor Paul A.
January 17th, 2012%
Read full article here: Washington bishops say push for gay ‘marriage’ undermines family
Olympia, Wash., Jan 17, 2012 / 06:03 am ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Proposed gay “marriage” legislation in Washington state would add to “the forces already undermining family life today,” the state’s Catholic bishops warned. In a January 2012 statement, the bishops stressed that the “stability of society depends on the stability of family life in which a man and a woman conceive and nurture new life.” They noted in their letter titled “Marriage and the Common Good” that the civil recognition of marriage as between one man and one woman has given “countless generations of children the incomparable benefit of a loving mother and father committed to one another in a lifelong union.” On Jan. 13, 23 senators, including two Republicans, introduced legislation that would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Gov. Christine Gregoire, a Catholic Democrat, had requested the bill which will require 25 votes to pass the state Senate. In response to the move, the bishops explained that defining marriage in terms of the relationship between a man and a woman and its “important role” in guaranteeing future generations, the state recognizes the “irreplaceable contribution” married couples make to society. Changing the definition of marriage means there are no special laws to support and recognize this
January 15th, 2012%
Read the complete text here: Pro-life ecumenism takes root in Oakland, Calif.
Oakland, Calif., Jan 14, 2012 / 01:04 pm ( .- The Rev. Walter Hoye is preparing for his fifth annual Standing Up 4Life Walk in Oakland, Calif. The rally will begin at noon Jan. 20 in front of Oakland City Hall at 1 Frank Ogawa Plaza. “The speakers want to come to Oakland,” said the Rev. Hoye, who thanked West Coast Walk for Life founders Eva Muntean and Dolores Meehan for their assistance. “Eva and Dolores work together to get communities of color involved,” he said. …
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January 15th, 2012%
Read the complete text here: Catholic pilgrims from Miami archdiocese to join Pope in Cuba
Miami, Fla., Jan 14, 2012 / 06:42 pm ( .- The Archdiocese of Miami is organizing a pilgrimage to Cuba for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI, Archbishop Thomas Wenski announced Jan. 12. “We travel in solidarity with the Church in Cuba – and in response to their invitation to share with them this historic event,” he said at a Jan. 12 press conference. “The Pope travels to Cuba as a pilgrim of charity. We go to Cuba in the same spirit.” The archbishop cited the Spanish-language theme of the visit, “A Jesus por Maria, la Caridad nos une,” which means “To Jesus through Mary, love makes us one.”
January 12th, 2012%
Go directly to: Supreme Court unanimously rejects government oversight of churches
Washington D.C., Jan 11, 2012 / 05:58 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Jan. 11 to uphold the “ministerial exception” that allows religious organizations to hire and fire ministers without interference from the government. The decision marks a “big rejection of this administration’s treatment of religious liberty,” said Mark Rienzi, an attorney for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which helped represent Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church in the case. Rienzi told n Jan. 11 that the Hosanna-Tabor case is “easily the most important religious freedom case in the last 20 years.” In Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC, teacher Cheryl Perich claimed that she was illegally fired by Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School of Redford, Mich. After being diagnosed with narcolepsy, Perich tried to return from disability leave but was told that a substitute had already been hired for the year…
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January 10th, 2012%
Go straight to: Vatican receives final report on US women religious
Hamden, Conn., Jan 9, 2012 / 07:20 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- A three-year survey of women’s religious life in the United States has concluded with the filing of a final report by the Vatican-appointed Apostolic Visitator Mother Mary Clare Millea. “Although there are concerns in religious life that warrant support and attention, the enduring reality is one of fidelity, joy, and hope,” Mother Millea said in a Jan. 9 release announcing the submission of her findings to the Vatican’s Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life. Along with her comprehensive report on women’s religious communities, Mother Millea is presenting individual reports on nearly 400 religious institutes to the congregation’s secretary Archbishop Joseph Tobin. These reports are likely to be completed by the spring of 2012. Cardinal Franc Rodé, the congregation’s former prefect, began the visitation in December 2008, to “look into the quality of life” of communities nationwide. Mother Millea, who is the Superior General of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and hails from the U.S., oversaw the process and conducted much of the research. Her review of women’s religious institutes spanned 2009 and 2010, with a further year dedicated to compiling and summarizing the findings…
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January 7th, 2012%
Read the full article here: CNA launches site redesign on Epiphany
Denver, Colo., Jan 6, 2012 / 01:15 pm ( .- On Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany, Catholic News Agency launched a redesign of its site to provide improved access to its news stories and resources. CNA’s editor-in-chief David Scott described the new design as “clean and smart.” “It will make it a lot easier for people with mobile devices to access CNA’s work, which has fast become the smartest and most reliable source of Catholic news on the web,” Scott said. Among the changes in the new design are drop down menus that allow for more direct access to breaking news headlines, features, columns and general resources on the Catholic faith, such as papal documents. Changes also include improved integration of social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, and a new layout designed for mobile devices like the iPad and other tablets. Readers will also be able to find a more prominent display of the daily Mass readings and saints under the liturgical calendar icon. CNA’s featured videos with breaking news and exclusive interviews on the Church worldwide will also be easily accessible from the main page.
January 7th, 2012%
Go directly to: Realism needed to save school system, Philadelphia archbishop says
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan 6, 2012 / 04:08 pm ( CNA/EWTN News ).- Catholic schools must move forward with hope and realism, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput said as his education commission announced school mergers and closings in a Jan. 6 report. “We need to honor the great history of Catholic education in our archdiocese. But we must not be constrained by it,” the archbishop said in a letter to the Blue Ribbon Commission. “Nostalgia for the past is a bad foundation if we want to think clearly and build creatively for the future.” He praised the authors of the “Faith in the Future” report for their “courage in facing the hard financial realities burdening many of our schools,” nearly 50 of which may be closed or merged. During hard times, he said, “justice requires that we use our resources to best effect,” while pursuing “new forms of governance, government advocacy and foundation funding.” “It is not enough for Catholic education to survive,” Archbishop Chaput stated. “It needs to grow, and we cannot make that happen with old behaviors and models of operation.” “The goal of Catholic education remains the same: We need to give our young people a zeal for the Catholic faith and a strong moral character, and in our schools, a superior academic curriculum. …
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