Over the last decade the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) channeled $7.3 million of parishioners’ money to ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now). Finally, last fall the CCHD reluctantly stopped payments to […]
Speaking to Planned Parenthood on July 17, 2007, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama said, “The first thing I’d do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act” (FOCA). Will he get that chance? It is […]
In February, the Boston Globe revealed that Caritas Christi, the health care arm of the Boston archdiocese, was a leading contender to win a lucrative contract from the Massachusetts state government. Under the terms of […]
On May 17, Notre Dame conferred upon Barack Obama an honorary law degree even as the US president geared up to pass more laws that would violate fundamental moral teachings of the Church. Thunderous applause […]
During a 2007 BBC radio interview, the archbishop of Canterbury deconstructed elements of the Nativity story. “Stars simply don’t behave like that,” Rowan Williams said. Asked about the existence of three wise men, he replied, […]
The news seems to have leaked out in an odd way. In September, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown was flying to America for a meeting with President Barack Obama. At least, it was hoped that […]
In 1997, William Oddie, a former Anglican priest who had converted to Catholicism, published a little book called The Roman Option. In it, he predicted that the Anglican Communion— then still reeling from the 1992 […]
At the end of 2009 the gay marriage movement, which once seemed unstoppable, hit a series of roadblocks. A referendum in Maine was defeated, and even the liberal New York state Senate voted down a […]
In the middle of the debate over abortion funding within the proposed health care reform bills, Cardinal Justin Rigali told a National Press Club audience that Catholic members of Congress needed to vote with “a […]
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