http://www.catholicculture.org/news/ CWN provides reliable world news and commentary from a Catholic perspective, availble exclusively at CatholicCulture.org. en-us http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14401 The chairman of the US bishops' Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development has expressed concern about the strategy of filing lawsuits against the HHS contraceptive mandate. ... Thu, 24 May 2012 10:11:20 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14402 Prodded by a 2011 Vatican document, the Italian bishops' conference has issued guidelines on the clerical abuse of minors. 135 allegations were reported to Italian bishops between 2000 and ... Thu, 24 May 2012 10:12:16 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14404 In separate editorials, two Catholic magazines associated with the Archdiocese of Havana ripped Cuban dissidents and exiles who have criticized Cardinal Jaime Ortega y Alamino for not ... Thu, 24 May 2012 10:14:51 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14403 Chinese authorities have stepped up their persecution of the Church in Inner Mongolia, the Chinese region that borders the independent nation of Mongolia. Local Catholics report that ... Thu, 24 May 2012 10:13:55 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14405 The dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne says that "Catholicism in Australia is in much the same state as Catholicism in America," with "many suburban ... Thu, 24 May 2012 10:15:57 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14397 Continuing his series of weekly talks on prayer in the epistles of St. Paul, Pope Benedict XVI spoke to his public audience on March 23 about the Apostle's words on "the Holy Spirit, who ... Wed, 23 May 2012 20:54:47 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14391 A new Gallup poll finds support for legal abortion at its lowest ebb in America since 2000. Only 41% of Americans call themselves "pro-choice," Gallup reports. That figure represents a ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:12:08 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14400 Speaking May 23 to a meeting of the World Health Assembly in Geneva, the Vatican's representative called for universal access to affordable health-care coverage. Archbishop Zygmunt ... Wed, 23 May 2012 21:13:45 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14383 A dozen Christians have been sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in violence that took place in the north-central Egyptian city of Minya in April 2011. Eight Muslims were ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:12:13 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14398 The Church of England has taken a crucial step toward the ordination of women as bishops, according to a report in the London Daily Telegraph. The bishops of the Church of England gave ... Wed, 23 May 2012 21:00:41 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14384 In 1921, the rector of the cathedral in Birmingham, Alabama, was murdered by a Methodist minister who was outraged by the marriage of his daughter to a Puerto Rican. The minister, Edwin ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:14:04 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14385 In what the Associated Press describes as "the largest release of a religious order's files to date," over 8,000 pages of testimony and internal files have been made public related to ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:15:05 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14390 America's 3 largest television network virtually ignored the lawsuits brought by 43 Catholic institutions against the contraceptive mandate, notes Brent Bozell of the Media Research ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:03:50 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14392 Two brothers who won a sex-abuse lawsuit against the Green Bay diocese have decided not to press for punitive damages. Todd and Troy Merryfield were awarded $700,000 in compensation ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:17:49 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14386 The Department of Justice, Peace and Human Development of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is urging lay Catholics to contact their senators over the Memorial Day ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:16:02 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14388 Human Rights Watch is calling upon the government of Vietnam to release four Catholic student activists who allegedly distributed pro-democracy leaflets and counseled women not to have ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:18:03 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14394 The Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship has plans for a drive to revitalize the use of Gregorian chant, reports Sandro Magister of L'Espresso. But those plans may encounter some ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:24:24 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14387 A parish in Syracuse, New York. has hosted a prayer vigil in support of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR) after the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith concluded ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:17:11 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14395 The Catholic Church in Ireland will see the first married deacons ordained in June. While the Church elsewhere in the Western world began reviving the permanent diaconate in the years ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:28:24 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14396 In the trial of Msgr. William Lynn--the former Philadelphia archdiocesan official who is charged with endangering children--the defense has brought forth witnesses to testify that Msgr. ... Wed, 23 May 2012 20:41:47 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14399 The English organizers of a conference dedicated to the defense of traditional marriage have been abruptly informed that they cannot hold their event in a government-owned ... Wed, 23 May 2012 21:06:57 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14389 Officials of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and Catholic Relief Services are hosting an online discussion on May 23 at 1:00 Eastern time to help Catholics "prevent ... Wed, 23 May 2012 10:19:19 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14393 The Washington Post has published an op-ed piece by Cardinal Donald Wuerl explaining that lawsuit that the Archdiocese of Washington (among other Catholic institutions) has filed against ... Wed, 23 May 2012 19:20:18 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14369 The Second Vatican Council's declarations on non-Christian religions and religious freedom do not contain "binding doctrinal content," Cardinal Walter Brandmuller said at a press ... Tue, 22 May 2012 10:17:26 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14375 The leader of the Legion of Christ knew in 2005 that a prominent Legionary priest had fathered a child, but kept the affair secret until recently. Father Alvaro Corcuera, the general ... Tue, 22 May 2012 19:46:28 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14382 At a May 22 press conference in Rome, Vatican officials outlined final plans for the 7th World Meeting of Families, which will be held in Milan from May 30 to June 3. Cardinal Ennio ... Tue, 22 May 2012 21:41:15 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14370 The Traditional Anglican Communion has suspended Archbishop John Hepworth, the Anglican prelate whose desire for full communion with the Holy See helped occasion Pope Benedict's 2009 ... Tue, 22 May 2012 10:19:05 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14379 Chinese government officials are discouraging pilgrims from participating in a May 24 pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Sheshan. But while citing "security reasons" to keep Catholics ... Tue, 22 May 2012 20:58:30 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14371 An artist and designer who lives in Brooklyn made 100 popsicles out of wine that he claims had been "inadvertently blessed by the priest while turning wine into the blood of Christ during ... Tue, 22 May 2012 10:25:00 GMT http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=14376 "The exit of Christians from the Holy Land can be described as a real human hemorrhage," according to the Latin-rite Catholic Patriarch of Jerusalem. In an interview with the Zenit news ... Tue, 22 May 2012 19:54:44 GMT