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Updated: February 4th, 2012
 Doctors wonder how federal mandate will affect practice of medicine
Saturday, 04 February 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Whether they are just starting out or nearing the end of their careers, Catholics who want to practice medicine in conformity with the church's teachings wonder how a new federal regulation requiring health plans to cover contraceptives and sterilization free of charge will affec...
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Saturday, 04 February 2012
TOLEDO—Bishop Leonard P. Blair is to celebrate a Mass for Consecrated Life Feb. 12 at 10 a.m. at Toledo Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral. This marks the 16th year that part of a weekend Mass celebration has been designated to high...
LAURIE STEVENS BERTKE, Chronicle Writer
Friday, 03 February 2012
Sandra Davis first came to know the Society of St. Vincent de Paul as a client, but it wasn’t long before she was working alongside the other volunteers in the organization’s food pantry at Toledo Little Flower. “I had needed a little assistan...
JOSEPH KENNY, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 02 February 2012
ST. LOUIS (CNS) -- The Jan. 31 announcement by Susan G. Komen for the Cure that it will no longer give grants to Planned Parenthood affiliates for breast cancer screenings "shows we are making a difference and having an impact," said a coordinator of...
JOE KOHN, Catholic News Service
Wednesday, 01 February 2012
DETROIT (CNS) -- Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron and his four auxiliary bishops are the latest group of U.S. bishops to give Catholics back home an up-close look at their "ad limina" visit to the Vatican through blog postings. Early in January,...
CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Tuesday, 31 January 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Priests hearing confessions need to replace any negative or aggressive attitudes with meekness and mercy toward the penitent, said a Vatican expert on confession. The sacrament ...
FRANCIS X. ROCCA and SARAH DELANEY, Catholic News Service
Monday, 30 January 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Fifty years ago this October, Blessed John XXIII and more than 2,500 bishops and heads of religious orders from around the world gathered in St. Peter's Basilica for the opening ...
SIMON CALDWELL, Catholic News Service
Saturday, 28 January 2012
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) -- British bishops plan to use the 2012 London Olympic Games to renew interest in the Catholic faith, with initiatives ranging from fighting human trafficking and homelessnes...
CAROL GLATZ, Catholic News Service
Friday, 27 January 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Consecrated life entails giving oneself completely to God and living for others, Pope Benedict XVI said. Speaking at his weekly general audience Jan. 25, the pope continued his ...
MARK ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 26 January 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A Washington pastor told 17,000 exuberant teenagers and young adults gathered at a pro-life rally and Mass in the Verizon Center Jan. 23 that he wondered if they knew "what an enco...