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Around the nation
Obama nominates retired CRS president as U.S. ambassador to Vatican
By Catholic News ServicePosted: 6/19/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- President Barack Obama June 14 nominated Ken Hackett, retired president of Catholic Relief Services, to be U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.
IRS scandals raise doubts over HHS mandate judgment
By Adelaide MenaPosted: 6/14/2013
WASHINGTON (CNA/EWTN News) -- The targeting of conservative, pro-life and religious non-profits by the Internal Revenue Service is drawing concern over the agency's authority to decide exemptions to the HHS mandate.
Obama administration drops fight to limit age restrictions on Plan B
By Carol Zimmermann Posted: 6/14/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- U.S. Catholic officials expressed disappointment with the June 10 announcement that the federal government will comply with a judge's ruling to allow girls of any age to buy the morning-after pill without a prescription.
Bill has hurdles to pass, but plans begin for immigrant legalization
By Patricia Zapor Posted: 6/7/2013
ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) -- Comprehensive immigration reform legislation barely cleared its first hurdle in Congress in May with the approval of the Senate Judiciary Committee, but the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., known as CLINIC, is already gearing up to help a potential pool of 11 million people apply for legalization.
U.S. bishops' second annual Fortnight for Freedom to be June 21-July 4
By Catholic News ServicePosted: 6/7/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops' second annual Fortnight for Freedom -- a period of prayer and fasting to raise awareness of challenges to religious liberty, both nationally and internationally -- is planned for June 21 to July 4.
Tornado victims receiving 'overwhelming' outpouring of prayer, support
By Catholic News ServicePosted: 6/7/2013
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) -- As communities across central Oklahoma continued to recover from the "powerful and deadly tornadoes" of May 19 and 20, they have experienced an "overwhelming" outpouring of "prayer, love and support from across our great state and from around the nation," said Oklahoma City's archbishop.
Lack of vote on same-sex marriage called victory in 'Land of Lincoln'
By Catholic News ServicePosted: 6/7/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The failure of members of the Illinois House to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage before the legislative session ended shows that "marriage redefinition -- even in the face of intense political pressure -- is not inevitable," said Archbishop Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco.
Scouts' policy change said to be 'not in conflict' with church teaching
By Mark Pattison Posted: 6/4/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The head of the National Catholic Committee on Scouting said the Boy Scouts' vote in May to admit homosexual youth into their ranks is "not in conflict with Catholic teaching," something by which "we should be encouraged."
New bishop wants to serve Oakland as pope serves 'the whole church'
By Michele Jurich Posted: 5/31/2013
OAKLAND, Calif. (CNS) -- In a joyful celebration that incorporated the many gifts of the diverse communities that make up the Oakland Diocese, Bishop Michael C. Barber was ordained and installed as Oakland's fifth bishop May 25 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light.
Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay youths to belong to Scout troops
By Seth Gonzales Posted: 5/31/2013
GRAPEVINE, Texas (CNS) -- The Boy Scouts of America's National Council voted late May 23 to allow openly gay youths admittance as members into the 103-year-old organization, effective Jan. 1, 2014.
Being priest was 'everything' to man ordained two days before he died
By Laurie Stevens Bertke Posted: 5/28/2013
MAUMEE, Ohio (CNS) -- Ordination "meant everything" to Father Scott R. Carroll.
"His dream was to be ordained a priest." That's how the 46-year-old priest was remembered by Father Keith Stripe, pastor of his home parish of St. Joseph.
Tornadoes exact deadly toll in Oklahoma; area needs 'a lot of prayers'
By Catholic News ServicePosted: 5/24/2013
OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) -- Even after the initial death toll was cut by more than half, the human and material devastation of a string of tornadoes that buffeted areas of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City May 19-20 was incalculable.
Judiciary Committee approval moves immigration bill on to full Senate
By Patricia Zapor Posted: 5/24/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform expressed optimism and hope for a law to pass this summer after the Senate Judiciary Committee May 21 finished wading through 300 proposed amendments -- accepting about a third of them -- and passed the massive bill on to the full Senate.
Religious freedom reports see little improvement in troubling countries
By Patricia Zapor Posted: 5/24/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The State Department's International Religious Freedom Report released May 20 and a counterpart report by an independent commission issued a few weeks earlier see many of the same trouble spots around the world: North Korea, China, Pakistan, Sudan, Nigeria and Vietnam, among others.
Vermont now 'death state' with doctor-assisted suicide law, bishop says
By Joseph Austin Posted: 5/24/2013
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Now that Vermont allows "doctor-prescribed suicide," the "magnificent landscape of this state, which echoes life from its majestic mountains to its powerful waterways, no longer is reflected in the laws which govern the Green Mountain State," said the head of the statewide Diocese of Burlington.
Pavone: 'Truth of abortion' exposed in trial will bring end to abortion
By Mary C. Uhler Posted: 5/21/2013
MADISON, Wis. (CNS) -- Father Frank Pavone, national director of Priests for Life, predicted "the end of abortion in our lifetime" in a recent talk he gave in Madison sponsored by Wisconsin Right to Life.
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