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Trick or Tract: Satan, Jack Chick, and Other Halloween Horrors
Every autumn Christians throughout North America engage in hand-wringing disputes over what to do about Halloween. The discussions...
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Bishops reaffirm doctrinal concerns with Fordham theologian’s book
The nine members of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine have reaffirmed their concerns that a 2007 book by Fordham...
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Chaput: Phila. school closings concern parishioners most
Though the clergy sex-abuse scandal has done “great damage” to the Roman Catholic Church and limited its ability...
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Pontifical university announces it will not accept directives from apostolic visitor
A legal representative for the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, Martin Mejorada has stated that the institution will...
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Maryknoll missionaries to celebrate 100 years of service
The Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers, a U.S. foreign missions group, are set to celebrate their 100th anniversary at St. Patrick’s...
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Pope at Assisi: People still seeking faith are ‘pilgrims of truth’ too
Pope Benedict XVI told 300 religious leaders at Assisi today that people who are suspicious of religion cannot be blamed...
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HHS Withholds Grant from U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Apparently Because Church Opposes Abortion
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has refused...
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In the Holy Land, a changed Christian world
The schedules for Mass at the two Roman Catholic churches in Jaffa, on Israel’s Mediterranean coast, reveal a change...
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Richard Dawkins: ‘Somebody as intelligent as Jesus would have been an atheist’
In the latest in John Harris’s National Conversations series of interviews, Richard Dawkins is invited to defend his...
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An uphill slog for the bishops
The U.S. bishops sounded an unusual alarm with the formation recently of the Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty to deal...



