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Updated: May 24th, 2012
Grant consulting services offered to rural groups
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Friday, 25 May 2012
The National Catholic Rural Life Conference is offering consulting services to rural communities seeking Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD) grants. The CCHD program was created 40 years ago by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to provide funding to groups of low-income people who ...
CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 24 May 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS)—The Italian television journalist who set off the "VatiLeaks" controversy by releasing private letters to Pope Benedict XVI and between Vatican officials has published a large collection of leaked documents in a new book called "...
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Thursday, 24 May 2012
TOLEDO—Golf fans can help Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Toledo with the purchase of weekly grounds and clubhouse tickets for the Jamie Farr Golf Classic. Catholic Charities will receive 100 percent of select ticket sales proceeds when spect...
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Masses at well-known basilicas in Baltimore and Washington will open and close the "fortnight for freedom," a special period of prayer, study, catechesis and public action proclaimed by the U.S. bishops for June 21 to July 4. Arch...
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Forty-three Catholic dioceses, schools, hospitals, social service agencies and other institutions filed suit in federal court May 21 to stop three government agencies from implementing a mandate that would require them to cover con...
CAROL ZIMMERMANN, Catholic News Service
Monday, 21 May 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS)—Franciscan University in Steubenville, Ohio, is discontinuing its student health insurance plan in the upcoming school year in opposition to the Obama administration's mandate requi...
MARK PATTISON, Catholic News Service
Sunday, 20 May 2012
WASHINGTON (CNS)—More than three dozen U.S. and British faith-based investment firms have banded together to get the Summer Olympics' major sponsors and tourist hotels to sign a pledge saying they w...
FRANCIS X. ROCCA, Catholic News Service
Saturday, 19 May 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Pope Benedict XVI urged American Catholics to strive for greater unity, especially among ethnic groups and between bishops and religious orders, in order to carry out the church's...
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Friday, 18 May 2012
TOLEDO—Members of the class of 1972 Toledo Catholic high schools are hosting the second All-Catholic Reunion June 22 at Toledo St. Ursula Academy. Ten years ago a similar reunion drew more than 125...
CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 17 May 2012
VATICAN CITY (CNS)—Work obligations should not harm a person's family relationships but should provide support, giving couples the resources to have and raise children and spend time together, Pope ...