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Feb 19 2024
Headline Roundup
NY Archdiocese Condemns Funeral for Transgender Activist, Claims Church Was Deceived
A funeral for a transgender activist held at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York garnered backlash and a denunciation from the New York Archdiocese.
Details: Following the funeral for transgender activist Cecilia Gentili, the New York Archdiocese condemned the “scandalous behavior” during the service, with a spokesperson for the Archdiocese citing one attendee reportedly calling
Associated Press The Daily Caller The HillNov 13 2013
News
Divine intervention? Pope opposes fracking
The worldwide leader of the Catholic Church, none other than the motherfracking pope himself, has come out in opposition to the worldwide scourge of hydraulic fracturing.
OK, so Pope Francis didn’t exactly make a policy statement or a speech denouncing fracking. But hints have emerged that he might do so soon. And Twitter is afire . And Twitter is afire with pictures of His Holiness
GristDec 30 2020
News
Bill legalizing abortion passed in pope's native Argentina
Argentina on Wednesday became the largest nation in Latin America to legalize elective abortion, a triumph for a feminist movement that overcame a last-minute appeal by Pope Francis to his compatriots and could pave the way for similar actions across the socially conservative, heavily Roman Catholic region. After a marathon 12-hour session, the country’s Senate passed the law after midnight by
Washington TimesNov 29 2023
Headline Roundup
Pope Strips Conservative US Cardinal of Vatican Privileges
Pope Francis revoked some Vatican privileges from American Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of his highest-ranking traditionalist critics, anonymous sources told multiple news outlets.
The Details: Francis stripped Burke of his church-subsidized Vatican apartment and salary, reportedly telling Vatican officials that Burke had been a source of “disunity.”
Pope vs. Critics: Francis
Associated Press BBC News Catholic News AgencyMay 20 2021
Analysis
Why isn’t Biden pushing Israel harder?
To understand Biden’s Israel policy now, you have to look at his past.
There’s a story Joe Biden likes to tell any time he speaks to an audience about Israel.
It’s 1948, a matter of days before Israel’s founding and three years after the end of World War II. Six-year-old Joey Biden is at the dinner table with his family, listening to his Catholic father wonder aloud why some
VoxOct 06 2020
Analysis
Democrats Haven’t Landed a Punch on Amy Coney Barrett
The Supreme Court fight of the century is, so far, a fizzle.
The ratio of progressive outrage over the nomination of federal Judge Amy Coney Barrett to supposed reasons that the U.S. Senate shouldn’t confirm her is completely out of whack — there’s a surfeit of the former and almost none of the latter.
Barrett has received extraordinary testimonials from her colleagues and
Rich LowryMar 09 2021
News
Pope Francis Visits Iraq
“Pope Francis urged Iraq’s Christians on Sunday to forgive the injustices against them by Muslim extremists and to rebuild as he visited the wrecked shells of churches and met ecstatic crowds in the community’s historic heartland… Throughout his four-day visit, Francis has delivered a message of interreligious tolerance to Muslim leaders, including in a historic meeting Saturday with Iraq’s
The Flip SideJan 25 2014
News
High Court Keeps Stay of Birth-Control Mandate
The Supreme Court on Friday freed a group of Roman Catholic nonprofit organizations from complying with the Affordable Care Act's contraceptive provisions while they pursue a challenge to the law before a federal appeals court.
The 2010 federal health-care law requires that plans include contraceptive coverage. Nonprofit employers that claim religious objections to contraception can opt
Wall Street Journal (News)Aug 23 2014
News
Administration Offers Contraception Compromise for Religious Employers
The Obama administration outlined a new compromise Friday aimed at shielding religious business owners and Christian universities and charities from the health law's contraception-coverage requirements, but a chilly initial response from Roman Catholic bishops suggested the move wouldn't assuage their concerns.
Federal officials laid out fresh rules to create a multistep process in
Wall Street Journal (News)Dec 31 2020
Opinion
The family gap
n a speech to the Federalist Society in November, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito reiterated his concern that ‘in certain quarters, religious liberty is fast becoming a disfavored right’. Small wonder that the subject was on his mind. A week earlier, the Court had heard oral arguments in the latest religious-liberty case, Fulton v. City of Philadelphia. In it, Catholic Social Services — one
The American Spectator