http://www.catholicculture.org/news/ CWN provides reliable world news and commentary from a Catholic perspective, availble exclusively at CatholicCulture.org. en-us http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/esxd2H2o3so/index.cfm The Vatican has released the full text of an apostolic constitution in which Pope Benedict XVI makes provision for Anglicans seeking corporate union with the Catholic Church. The text, ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:19:31 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4551 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/9cEUnvS8szE/index.cfm In a pro-life legislative victory that both sides are calling the most significant since the ban on partial-birth abortion, the House of Representatives voted 240-194 on November 7 to bar ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:03 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4545 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/-eM2OZsyhb4/index.cfm Pope Benedict XVI flew from Rome to Brescia, Italy, on November 8 for a one-day visit to the diocese that was home to Pope Paul VI. Arriving in Brescia in the morning, he paused to ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 19:48:17 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4552 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/fqyKprtr-8E/index.cfm A Canadian judge has determined that retired Bishop Gérard Dionne thwarted a 1983 police investigation into Father Bernard Cloutier's sexual abuse of five teenage boys. Father Cloutier ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:14:54 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4547 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/BePcoOutRIY/index.cfm Rajnath Singh, leader of India's popular Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has called for an end of the "mass conversions illegally carried out by Christians in India, ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:15:51 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4548 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/POtZZAmG9PQ/index.cfm The Christian Federation of Malaysia is demanding that the nation's government release the 15,000 Bibles confiscated because they use the word "Allah" to refer to God. "It is baseless to ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:16:45 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4549 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/IyUw-qCEtg0/index.cfm Government leaders in Pakistan convened a meeting with Christian leaders to open a discussion on possible changes in the country's blasphemy laws. Christians have complained that the laws ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:06:39 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4557 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/Q4bUM3ZX0_0/index.cfm In view of the December 7-18 UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, the Council of European Bishops' Conferences has joined the Conference of European Churches in calling for strong ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:13:54 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4546 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/uPg6UEcxrY8/index.cfm Pope Benedict XVI met on November 9 with participants in a conference organized by the Pontifical Council for Migrants, and said that the worldwide phenomenon of migration "has assumed ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:04:04 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4553 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/2n_us5hD_rc/index.cfm Sri Lanka's leading prelate is urging the European Union not to revoke a post-tsunami 2004 economic accord that has permitted greater access of Sri Lankan textiles to European markets. The ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:18:35 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4550 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/naW5Wmj8GEA/index.cfm In a message to participants in a Vatican conference on sports, Pope Benedict XVI advocated a balanced approach to athletic competition, which builds on "positive aspects such as, for ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:04:31 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4556 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/AFFygUT1SG0/index.cfm Network, a Washington-based "Catholic Social Justice Lobby" based in Washington that was founded by women religious, has written to members of the US House of Representatives who voted ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:14:15 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4558 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/Mk_ZDSGvVeI/index.cfm In a highly partisan (and poorly informed) analysis piece for Time magazine, Amy Sullivan perceives a bitter dispute between Archbishop Raymond Burke, the head of the Apostolic Signatura, ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:17:54 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4554 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/dtHE6qUGOCE/index.cfm Only one Republican member of the US House of Representatives, Congressman Joseph Cao of Louisiana, voted in favor of the health-care reform bill that was approved in a partisan vote on ... Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:01:22 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4555 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/wSdhWQGlaRk/index.cfm With the US House of Representatives scheduled to vote on November 7 on a proposed health-care reform bill, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is struggling to rally support for the legislation, with ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:54:49 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4532 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/bwmK9RmK1vo/index.cfm Vatican officials have moved quickly t0 deflate a report, published in the Italian daily La Repubblica, that Pope John Paul II will be beatified early next year. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:05:49 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4533 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/XXODm_p-ZSo/index.cfm Six Italian bishops concelebrated the funeral Mass of Natuzza Evolo, a reputed stigmatist who died on November 1 at the age of 85. Thirty thousand mourners paid their respects to the ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:50:24 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4526 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/nmJJq6P4--s/index.cfm The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops has published a proposed new directive on providing nutrition and hydration for patients in a "persistent vegetative state." The current ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:53:01 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4528 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/W-pRPAgKfaA/index.cfm As prison authorities in Virginia prepare for the scheduled November execution of John Allen Muhammad, who was convicted of a series of sniper murders carried out around Washington, DC, in ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:58:43 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4531 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/bh5Lcy7VnMk/index.cfm Una Voce International, an organization devoted to the traditional liturgy, has issued a report on the 2nd anniversary of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. The report-- which leaders ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:10:48 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4534 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/MBrVBWYlg40/index.cfm The Vatican's permanent observer at UN headquarters in New York has called for a concerted effort to revive Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, pleading for an effort to ease the plight of ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:19:12 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4535 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/Dq6FNLmuO-U/index.cfm Caritas International, the worldwide association of Catholic relief organizations, has joined other international relief groups-- including the Red Cross, Oxfam, Save the Children, and ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:33:14 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4537 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/NwXww7j646w/index.cfm Lawyers representing victims of sexual abuse in the Wilmington diocese have agreed to postpone proceedings on their lawsuits, after a November 6 negotiating session with diocesan lawyers. ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:33:20 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4543 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/F98ua2udKqw/index.cfm Sister Donna Quinn, whose volunteer work for an Illinois abortion clinic forced an apology from her Dominican superiors, has announced that she will no longer escort women into the clinic. ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:37:02 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4538 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/LuUFIUnNyhA/index.cfm Pope Benedict XVI met on November 6 with President Nursultan Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, and took note of the "peaceful coexistence between faithful of various religions" in the country-- ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:41:12 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4539 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/I8FOK6NysTE/index.cfm Paraguayan President Fernando Armindo Lugo Méndez, a former bishop, is facing his third paternity suit. A 40-year-old campaign worker claims that the president fathered her two-year-old ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:54:08 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4529 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/58M0C96tufQ/index.cfm About 170 priests of the Vinh diocese in Vietnam have gathered in Xa Doai for an annual retreat, at which they will discuss both their plans for a diocesan jubilee and their troubles in ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:29:22 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4536 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/OrY3g0Q2XOU/index.cfm Responding to "questions from the faithful regarding the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States," the bishops of California have issued a statement ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:51:19 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4527 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/IDEHuHXFWxI/index.cfm Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, has begun a four-day visit to Cuba. While he is in the Communist nation, Archbishop Celli is ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:54:56 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4530 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CatholicWorldNewsFeatureStories/~3/6bBUmHMx46w/index.cfm England's leading rabbi, Lord Sacks, has argued that Europe is suffering a demographic crisis because couples who lack religious faith are unwilling to make the sacrifices associated with ... Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:17:45 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=4540