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Thursday, September 9, 2010
By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON — The chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have joined in condemnation of plans by a small Florida Pentecostal church to burn the Quran on Sept. 11.
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
WASHINGTON — Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo praised a federal judge's recent ruling that temporarily stopped federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, but the U.S. Department of Justice said it would appeal the decision.
The cardinal, who heads the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston and chairs the U.S. bishops' Committee on Pro-Life Activities, called the Aug. 23 decision by Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia "a victory for common sense and sound medical ethics."
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Thursday, August 26, 2010
By Julie Asher
WASHINGTON — Greg Erlandson decided to write a book on the clergy sex abuse crisis because the secular media kept raising questions about Pope Benedict XVI's handling of cases in their coverage of a new wave of clergy sex abuse in dioceses around the world.
For him, there was a "genuine curiosity about what's going on. ... It wasn't just a bishop in this diocese or a bishop in that diocese, but now it was about the pope and his credibility," said Erlandson, president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor Publishing Co. in Huntington, Ind.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Dennis Sadowski
WASHINGTON — Bishop Richard G. Lennon of Cleveland is seeking to meet with leaders of a breakaway Catholic community and the priest who celebrated Mass Aug. 15 outside of a sanctioned church after their former parish was closed.
The Mass, celebrated by Father Robert Marrone, former pastor of St. Peter Church in downtown Cleveland, was the first of what is planned as a weekly occurrence for the new Community of St. Peter, community member and trustee Bob Zack said.
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Tuesday, August 24, 2010
By Patricia Zapor
WASHINGTON — The controversy over plans to build an Islamic cultural center and mosque a couple of blocks away from ground zero in New York is but the latest manifestation of a historic cycle of distrust of immigrants — and their faith.
Public outcry erupted this summer over plans to convert a former Burlington Coat Factory store, located a little more than two blocks from the World Trade Center complex, into a nine-story Islamic cultural center, with a mosque included. The area's Muslim community already uses the vacant retail space for worshippers who overflow from the al-Farah Mosque, about a dozen blocks north of the trade center property, according to The Associated Press.
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