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Expunging Christ: The Crucifix and the Nation

2009-11-6T16:31:18+00:00

By Tim Drake | “Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, The people whom he has chosen for his own inheritance.” - Psalm 33: 12 On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights fined the Italian government for having crucifixes in its schools. It’s yet another example of oversize, secular bureaucracies pitted against the most natural forms of agreement, …

Anglican Province Accepts Pope's Offer

2009-11-5T17:46:04+00:00

By EDWARD PENTIN | The Traditional Anglican Communion’s province in Great Britain has become the first to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans. All its members voted unanimously to come into communion with Rome under the terms of the new provision, which allows them to retain their Anglican patrimony. An undated statement on the province’s website reads: “That this …

Planned Parenthood Takes on the Bishops

2009-11-5T08:57:01+00:00

By Tim Drake | Last Wednesday, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops began an unprecedented campaign encouraging all Catholics to oppose health-care reform that includes abortion funding. In response, Planned Parenthood Federation’s president, Cecile Richards, has said that the bishops don’t represent all Catholics and is recruiting Catholics to contact their legislators to support the current health-care reform bills before Congress. …

Marriage Victory in Maine

2009-11-4T21:08:43+00:00

By The Editors | Advocates of same-sex marriage hit a roadblock with yesterday’s vote in Maine to reverse a state law allowing the practice. The Catholic Diocese of Portland played a big part in educating voters, as Register correspondent Joan Frawley Desmond explains in this article. It will be running in the Nov. 15 issue. The Maine Event: Church Instrumental in …

Abortion Fight Dominates House Vote

2009-11-4T20:33:57+00:00

By The Editors | The U.S. House of Representatives is expected to vote on the massive health-care reform bill this weekend. Here is Register correspondent Rich Daly’s latest look at the legislation and efforts to ensure that the federal government will not be spending tax dollars on elective abortions. Abortion Fight Dominates House Vote By Rich Daly Register Correspondent WASHINGTON — …

Election Results

2009-11-4T16:14:42+00:00

By The Editors | Pro-life and traditional family values advocates are reveling in bright news this morning. Republican Chris Christie ousted Democrat pro-abortion Gov. Jon Corzine in New Jersey, and Republican Bob McDonnell won Virginia’s gubernatorial race over pro-abortion candidate Creigh Deeds. And Maine voters rejected a bill legalizing same-sex “marriage” with a healthy 53-47 margin. Partisans are interpreting the results …

Sinsinawa Dominicans Issue Apology

2009-11-4T15:55:17+00:00

By JOSEPH PRONECHEN | The Dominican Sisters of Sinsinawa censured Sister Donna Quinn Nov. 2 for working as an escort at a Hinsdale, Ill., abortion business. Sister Donna was identified in a photo in the Chicago Tribune as one of two women wearing a “Clinic Escort” vest at the ACU Health Center. ChicagoCatholicNews reported Nov. 4 Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, …

Archbishop Dolan on the Media

2009-11-2T20:16:39+00:00

By The Editors | In a forthcoming interview that will appear in the Register, New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan tells correspondent Paul Barra that the media in New York have been ”exceptionally attentive” since his installation earlier this year. “They have been interested in what I have to say, they have joined in the chorus of welcome, and I can’t keep …

Ultrasound Trumps Culture of Death

2009-11-2T19:09:10+00:00

By THE DAILY BLOG | No wonder Planned Parenthood fights those who use ultrasound and 4-D imaging in its abortion businesses. Abby Johnson, who had worked at the Planned Parenthood in Bryan, Texas, for the past eight years and had directed the Bryan business for the last two, resigned Oct. 6 after watching an ultrasound of an abortion procedure, reported the …

Vatican Clarifies Celibacy Issue for Anglican Seminarians

2009-11-2T13:14:16+00:00

By EDWARD PENTIN | The Vatican Oct. 31 clarified the issue of married Anglican clergy within the new structures to be set out in the forthcoming apostolic constitution. In a lengthy statement, Vatican spokesman Father Federico Lombardi relayed an explanation of the situation given by Cardinal William Levada, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Cardinal Levada stated …

Legionaries Surprised by Miami Ban

2009-10-31T00:13:54+00:00

By ZENIT NEWS SERVICE | MIAMI — The Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ is “surprised and disappointed” that Archbishop John Favalora of Miami has decided to prohibit the order from functioning in the archdiocese, said a spokesman for the congregation. Msgr. Michael Souckar, the archdiocesan chancellor, communicated to the local clergy Oct. 29 that members of the Legionaries of Christ …

Bishops Weigh In

2009-10-30T19:31:19+00:00

By The Editors | Not long after Nancy Pelosi unveiled the 1,990-page House health-care reform bill Oct. 29, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops issued an urgent call to arms. The House bill, the Affordable Health Care for America Act, contains provisions for the public funding of abortions under a new health-care delivery and financing scheme in America. All Americans will …

Contraceptives May Double Risk of Stroke

2009-10-30T15:23:04+00:00

By Tim Drake | According to LifeSiteNews.com, a new study conducted by Chicago’s Loyola University Health System indicates that taking oral contraceptives increases the risk of stroke by nearly double for women. The study was published by MedLink Neurology. It demonstrated that there are about 4.4 ischemic strokes — caused by the loss of blood supply to the brain — for …

Archbishop Dolan Gets a Blog

2009-10-29T18:21:15+00:00

By Tim Drake | Boston Cardinal Seán O’Malley has had a blog for three years. Now New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has started one. Titled “The Gospel in the Digital Age,” Archbishop Dolan began writing for the blog on Oct. 6. According to The New York Times, his postings every few days have included “war and peace, health care, abortion, charitable …

Celibacy Issue Holds Up Apostolic Constitution

2009-10-29T11:39:45+00:00

By EDWARD PENTIN | The delay in publishing the apostolic constitution, which will allow large numbers of Anglicans to be received into the Catholic Church, is due not so much to translation problems as the more weighty issue of priestly celibacy. According to two reliably informed Italian newspapers, Il Giornale and Il Foglio, canon lawyers are continuing to define what has …