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January 19, 2012

Parents say media frenzy shouldn’t lead to fear of oversea adoptions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the wake of the international media frenzy surrounding the story of a Tennessee woman who recently sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia unaccompanied, Carrie Krenson of Nashville’s Cathedral of the Incarnation is eager to share her “boring old story” of adopting two children from Russia.
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January 19, 2012

Atlanta archbishop: Despite discouragement, it’s ‘high season’ for ecumenism

TAMPA, Fla. – Despite disappointment and discouragement voiced over the slower pace of ecumenical talks than in decades past, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory offered his view that it is “high season” for the ecumenical movement during an April 20 address in Tampa.
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January 19, 2012

Nigerian violence raised as concern by US religious freedom commission

WASHINGTON – Two recent outbreaks of violence that claimed nearly 1,000 lives in northern Nigeria show that the country’s political leaders are unable to effectively resolve conflicts that transcend both socio-economic and religious issues, said a U.S. government commission.
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January 19, 2012

Pro-life ‘freedom rides’ set to begin this summer in Birmingham

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Calling for an end to the nation’s “enslavement to legal abortion,” Father Frank Pavone of Priests for Life announced April 27 that a series of “freedom rides” for the unborn would begin this summer.
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January 19, 2012

Abandoning fetus alive after abortion was ‘barbaric,’ archbishop says

VATICAN CITY – The death of a fetus who survived an abortion but was wrapped in a sheet and left to die should shake people’s consciences, said Italian Archbishop Santo Marciano of Rossano.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Brandt of Greensburg, Pa., withdraws support for CCHD

WASHINGTON – Citing concerns that some groups funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development fail to follow church teaching, Bishop Lawrence E. Brandt of Greensburg, Pa., has withdrawn support for the U.S. bishops’ nationwide anti-poverty program.
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January 19, 2012

Pope receives copy of complete English translation of Roman Missal

VATICAN CITY – After nine years of work involving Vatican officials, English-speaking bishops around the world and hundreds of consultants, Pope Benedict XVI received a complete version of the English translation of the Roman Missal.
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January 19, 2012

Mexican advocates say U.S. officials don’t care about tales of violence

EL PASO, Texas – An unidentified Mexican man and his wife, fearful to reveal their true identities, spoke recently to a group of reporters and immigration advocates in this border city about the violence that forced them to seek refuge in the United States.
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January 19, 2012

Fargo bishop to close college seminary at end of next academic year

FARGO, N.D. – Noting that the cost of subsidizing the local college seminary program had reached $100,000 per student because of low enrollment, Bishop Samuel J. Aquila of Fargo announced that the diocese would discontinue the program at the end of the 2010-11 academic year.
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January 19, 2012

Supreme Court rules cross in national park might be preserved

WASHINGTON – With a tangled set of six opinions, the Supreme Court ruled April 28 that it could be constitutional for the federal government to permit a large cross to stay within the boundaries of a national preserve in the California desert.
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January 19, 2012

Faithful priests all around

Witness awakens vocations. Offered by the Holy Father Pope Benedict XVI, this was the theme for the 47th World Day of Prayer for Vocations April 25. One man can make a difference. In Jesus Christ we know this to be true. In and through Christ this continues to be true for His priests. How does...
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January 19, 2012

More church, other leaders call for opposition to Arizona immigration law

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Migration, the archbishop of New York and the bishops of New Mexico have joined a growing chorus of opposition to Arizona’s new immigration bill.
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