“We pledge…to ensure that all C.C.H.D. funds are used faithfully, effectively and in accord with Catholic social and moral teaching,” said Bishop Roger P. Morin.
America Staff
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Close Guantanamo, Says Anti-torture Group
The prison is the symbol of our country’s violation of our deepest values” and must be closed immediately, a group of religious leaders said.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
Detained Migrants Deserve Spiritual Care
The growing number of people in U.S. detention centers has made the issue of access even more urgent.
Posted inSigns Of the Times
High Stakes Success on Health Care for U.S.C.C.B.
The Nov. 7 House vote was a victory for the national and Catholic pro-life community, though less of an achievement than pro-choice advocates are suggesting.
Posted inCatholic Book Club
November Selection
This engaging book establishes a new framework for meeting the challenges facing the church in a changing world. John Allen is the Vatican correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter, a Vatican analyst for CNN and NPR and has a weekly Internet column called “All Things Catholic.” He has drawn from thousands of hours of interviews with church hierarchy, priests, theologians, political activists, social workers, ecumenists and liturgists among others to survey—and provide context for—the most important currents shaping the Catholic Church today, “and to look down the line at how they might play out during the rest of the 21st century.”
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California Bishops Praise Women Religious
“We are all aware of the special anxieties which surround our women religious these days,” Cardinal Roger M. Mahony wrote.
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Letters
Hard to Imagine Thank you for printing the wonderful article “Our Brothers, the Jews,” by Dorothy Day (11/9). It is an illuminating time capsule of prior years. I cannot imagine the United States as it was described. It was warming to hear the words mystical body, words that are not
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Bishop Urges End to Afghan Conflict
The bishop who heads the Military Diocese of Great Britain has urged the British government to use diplomacy to bring an end to the 8-year-old conflict
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News Briefs
An American deacon described at a press conference in London how he was suddenly cured from a severe spinal condition after praying to Cardinal John Henry Newman.
Posted inIn All Things
Kerry Weber on “Fantastic Mr Fox”
Our newest editor is Kerry Weber a talented young woman well young to me who had previously worked at Catholic Digest We re delighted to have her and I m even more delighted that she s a great writer and reviewer as well who has submitted this review of the new Wes Anderson film Fantastic M