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U.S. Bishops: Senate Takes 1 Step Forward, 1 Back

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Assess Votes on Abortion and Foreign Policy
A spokeswoman for the U.S. bishops’ pro-life committee welcomed one Senate vote while lamenting another.
Deirdre McQuade welcomed Monday’s decision to maintain a longstanding federal law against any involvement in coercive abortion programs overseas.
But she expressed disappointment at last Thursday’s vote to overturn the so-called Mexico City policy, which denies [...]

Sep

12

Communication Considered Essential to Faith

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Archbishop Says It’s Key in Relationship With God
A former Vatican official synthesized what some are beginning to call the “theology of communication” in a phrase: “God is truth and God is love — and both demand communication.”
Archbishop John Foley, retired president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, made these remarks Friday while inaugurating a [...]

Sep

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Cardinal Has Message for Beauty-Obsessed World

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Recalls Church’s Preferential Option for Marginalized
In a world that exalts physical perfection, the Church must proclaim its preferential option for the weak and marginalized, says the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.
Cardinal Renato Martino said this today during the inauguration of the 5th Congress of European Pilgrimages and Sanctuaries, taking place through [...]

Sep

12

The Search for God

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Most people hate the winter months especially.
The cold and dark they find depressing.
Actualy I am the reverse.
It is the Summer months I find most difficult.
There is a quality of life about both Autumn and Winter that is both deeply spiritual and contemplative in its nature.
We simply need to go beyond the cold and dark.
We need [...]

Sep

12

Chinese Underground Bishop Dies

September 12, 2007 | Leave a Comment

After almost eight years of imprisonment, Bishop Han Dingxiang, a bishop of the underground Church in China, died Sunday. According to a U.S.-based watchdog group, the Cardinal Kung Foundation, Bishop Han, 71, of the Diocese of Yong Nian in Hebei province, died at 11 p.m. Government authorities summoned a few close relatives to his bedside [...]

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