Sister Carol Keehan decried reports that Catholic health care leaders are “working at cross-purposes” with the U.S. bishops on the abortion issue.
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Is Assassination Ever Justified?
New disclosures have prompted a debate about how government-sponsored assassination should be viewed in light of the Catholic moral tradition.
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President, Pope Discuss G-8 Commitments, Bioethics
THE VATICAN — The church’s positions on bioethical issues and matters of global social justice received marked attention during Pope Benedict XVI’s meeting with President Barack Obama on July 10 in Rome. Mr. Obama had traveled to Rome for the Group of 8 summit, an annual meeting of the
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Is Assassination Ever Justified?
The recent disclosure that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was developing a program to track down and kill individual Al Qaeda leaders has re-awakened legal and ethical questions about assassination as a tool of national policy. The program had been kept hidden from Congress until this spring,
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Honduran Cardinal Addresses Coup Crisis
Cardinal óscar Rodríguez Maradiaga denied that the church supported the coup détat.
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Aid Official Describes Starvation in Eritrea
Orphanage staffers are overwhelmed by the number of children being dropped off because their families cannot feed them.
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Conditions Improve for Russian Catholics
“Our church’s ties with state and society here have significantly improved recently,” said a member of the Russian Catholic bishops’ conference.
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Eddie Panlilio, a Catholic priest, has requested a dispensation from his priestly duties so that he may run for president of the Phillipines.
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Duty to Protect: Three Pillars to Prevent Four Crimes
A lack of will and finger pointing have contributed to the international community’s failure to stop present-day mass violence.
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Israel Stops Distributing Booklet About Vatican-Hezbollah Ties
Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of Auschwitz for members of Hezbollah were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months.