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Baucus Bill ‘Falls Short’

BY Rich Daly

Republicans Push To Ban Abortion and Assisted Suicide in Health Reform

October 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — Several Republican senators are pushing to limit taxpayer funding of abortion and federal support for assisted suicide as part of the newest health-reform proposal.

The efforts of abortion and euthanasia opponents came as the Senate Finance Committee began to consider more than 500... READ MORE


Emma Watson Gets to Meet Her Pope

BY Tim Drake

October 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

CRAIGMONT, Idaho — Emma Watson has nurtured the dream of meeting the Pope since she was 3.

On Sept. 9, the dream for the 7 1/2-year-old from Idaho who has been bravely battling a heart condition became a reality.

And coming face to face with the Successor of Peter, the normally quite... READ MORE


Is Doma Doomed?

BY Tim Drake

Marriage Under Attack in Congressional and Legal Action

October 4-10, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — A congressman from New York recently introduced a bill called the Respect for Marriage Act, winning support from an initial 90 co-sponsors. Advocates speak about the “immorality” of the situation the legislation seeks to address.

But rather than seeking to protect the traditional... READ MORE


Court Rules ‘Sexual Orientation-Laws ’ Include Former Homosexuals

BY Gail Besse

For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — Former homosexuals are a protected class that must be recognized under sexual orientation nondiscrimination laws.

So says a precedent-setting ruling by the Superior Court of the District of Columbia. It ruled June 26 that under the district’s Human Rights Act, discrimination can... READ MORE


Pro-Life Groups Hope Latest Health Push Drops Abortion

BY Rich Daly

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — Pro-life groups hope new leadership by President Obama in overhauling health care will veer away from the large expansion in federal funding for abortions that bills under consideration in Congress would provide.

But one leading right-to-life organization quickly denounced a bill... READ MORE


Catholic Physicians Wary of Health-Care Reform

BY Joan Frawley Desmond

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — As the Senate begins negotiations on health-care reform, Catholic physicians are struggling to influence legislation that could limit their freedom to practice medicine.

Physicians committed to Church teaching worry about the advent of abortion mandates and health-care rationing. But... READ MORE


Teachers Within NEA Fight for Life and Family

BY Gail Besse

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue

WASHINGTON — Catholic parents and educators alarmed at the hostility toward traditional values in public schools and the radical politics of the National Education Association are not alone.

Groups and individuals speaking up for traditional values in education show no signs of backing off and... READ MORE


Czech Mate

BY Edward Pentin

Pope Visits Country Where Secularism Has Taken Hold

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

VATICAN CITY — Pope Benedict XVI will visit the Czech Republic at a time when the former Communist nation is being hit by a wave of secularization.

The visit takes place 20 years after the fall of Communism in central and Eastern Europe.

On Sept. 26-28, the Pope will travel to Prague, the... READ MORE


‘Guilty of Praying’

BY Thomas Uebbing

Notre Dame President Says Protesters’ Fate Out of His Hands

September 27-October 3, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — When Air Force One roared off into the sky over northern Indiana May 17, most people considered the controversy surrounding President Obama’s appearance at Notre Dame over.

But for the 88 people arrested for trespassing during the controversy, the story is still... READ MORE


Vocational Voltage

BY Tim Drake

Serra Tackles Religious Call Issue in Year for Priests

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

OMAHA, Neb. — Serra International is using the Year for Priests to tackle the laity’s role in promoting vocations to religious life. More than 530 Serrans, several bishops and many priests gathered in Omaha for the group’s 67th International Convention Aug. 27-30, which focused on the theme... READ MORE


Whose Health Care Is It?

BY Steve Weatherbe

‘Right’ to Care and Subsidiarity Seen as Sticking Points in Debate

September 20-26, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — There is as much debate about health-care reform among Catholics as there is in the nation at large.

And, as Congress returned from its August recess to face the monumental task of crafting a health-insurance reform bill and gain consensus, individual bishops entered the debate,... READ MORE


Bishops Defend Marriage in New York

BY Stephen Vincent

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Catholic Conference has filed an amicus brief at the state’s highest court, challenging the recognition of same-sex “marriages” formed legally outside of New York.

The brief, prepared by the Chicago-based Thomas More Society, calls for defending marriage... READ MORE


Home-Invasion Threat

BY Rich Daly

‘Voluntary’ Visitation Program Draws Family Fire

September 20-26, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

WASHINGTON — One aspect of the health-care reform legislation is a deal killer, as far as some family groups are concerned.

A low-profile provision within the 1,000-plus-page health-care overhaul bill in Congress is so controversial to some family-rights groups that they have opposed the overall... READ MORE


Proud 2 Be Irish and Catholic

BY Justin Bell

Ireland’s Youth Press on in the Wake of Abuse Report

September 20-26, 2009 Issue

DUBLIN, Ireland — The so-called Ryan Report recently brought forth devastating revelations of past abuse of youth in Catholic institutions.

Judge Sean Ryan released the report, a nine-year study by the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse, in May. The 2,600-page report cast light on severe... READ MORE


Waiting for an Answer

BY Wayne Laugesen

Maryknoll Priest Confused on Excommunication

September 20-26, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

COLUMBUS, Ga. — In spite of a news report that Maryknoll Father Roy Bourgeois has confirmed that he has been excommunicated, the priest says he just does not know.

Best known for his ongoing protests at the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, formerly the School of the... READ MORE


Emergency in Intensive Care

BY Joan Frawley Desmond

Catholic Hospitals Scramble to Inform Poorly Catechized Patients

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

WASHINGTON — Throughout the summer, critics used town hall meetings to stir fears regarding the proposed health-care reform bill. They’ve warned of possible medical “rationing” and “death boards” designed to withhold care for the elderly and the disabled.

Back in Washington, however,... READ MORE


Faith Caught and Taught

BY Barb Ernster

Peer-to-Peer Ministries See a Sizeable Growth Spurt

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

After experiencing a mostly secular environment at the University of Southern California, Christie Hamers decided to spend her first year after college ministering to high school-age youth. The 21-year-old from Newport Beach, Calif., is one of more than 100 team members being trained for NET... READ MORE


Bringing the Bible to Life

BY EDDIE O’NEILL

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

Tim Gray paid attention when the Vatican held a synod on Scripture in the life and mission of the Church last October.

Now he’s helping to spread the wisdom that came out of it. Gray, president of the Augustine Institute in Denver, was an organizer and speaker at the 2009 National Catholic Bible... READ MORE


Chicago’s Catholic Cartoonist

BY Monta Monaco Hernon

September 13-19, 2009 Issue

Jack Higgins has been a full-time cartoonist for the Chicago Sun-Times since 1984. The Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist has traveled the world covering international events and has drawn five political conventions and a Super Bowl.

He got in the business to cover Chicago politics, and... READ MORE


When ‘Rights’ to the Pill Trump the First Amendment

BY Sue Ellin Browder

September 13-19, 2009 Issue For Subscribers Only

BELMONT, N.C. — Federal action against Belmont Abbey College in North Carolina is only the latest in a decade-long effort to secure universal access to paid contraceptive-drug coverage.

The battle seems to be heating up; laws, legal action and government agencies take aim at Catholic... READ MORE


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