Results from Tag: 'December 18-31, 2011'
New Missal Makes Smooth Debut
The debut of the new Roman Missal, in its newly translated form, generated a variety of reactions, mostly good.
Health and Human Services Defends Grant Denial Decision
A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services was grilled by a congressional panel about possible political interference in a Catholic agency being denied a federal grant for helping trafficking victims.
Presidential Hopefuls: Ron Paul
Presidential candidate Ron Paul is known as a strict libertarian. But his experience as a medical doctor delivering babies has also made him strongly pro-life.
Goodbye Iraq
An Army chaplain in Iraq reflects on the challenges serving Catholic soldiers as the U.S. military prepares to leave Iraq.
Massachusetts vs. Assisted Suicide
A proposal to legalize physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts is likely to get on the ballot next November.
'The Pre-Eminent Social-Justice Issue' of Our Time
Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., explains how the new bishops' committee on religious freedom will work.
Texas Showdown
A group of citizens in El Paso managed to get a ballot initiative to repeal “domestic-partner benefits” offered by the city, but the city council reversed the outcome. A subsequent effort to recall the mayor and two city council members was overturned because signatures were gathered on church property.
Christmas 2011 in Bethlehem, USA
Regina Laudis Abbey in Bethlehem, Conn., which features an 18th-century crèche, and the Church of the Nativity, with its life-size Nativity, nearby — and other similarly named towns — remind visitors to welcome Christ all year.
