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Nine states announce formation of religious freedom caucuses
October 12, 2012 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The need to defend religious liberty, a key issue this year for the U.S. Catholic bishops and other religious leaders, will now have a new venue for discussion and action in a handful of state legislatures.
Massachusetts voters urged to reject assisted-suicide ballot measure
October 12, 2012 Catholic News Service WATERTOWN, Mass. — “Doc, how long have I got?” That’s the question Dr. John Howland hates to be asked.
‘No religious affiliation’ now describes nearly fifth of US population
October 10, 2012 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON – People who say they are unaffiliated with any religion constitute nearly 20 percent of the American public, making them almost as numerous as Catholics, who accounted for 22 percent of participants in a new Pew Research Center study released Oct. 9.
Archbishop: New evangelization ‘must begin in your hearts and in mine’
October 10, 2012 Catholic News Service LOS ANGELES — The Catholic Church’s mission to evangelize “is ever ancient and ever new,” and every member of the church has a duty to carry out this mission, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said in a pastoral issued to coincide with the …
Study of never-married Catholics gives insight into future of vocations
October 10, 2012 Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In a survey of Catholics age 14 and older, about 12 percent of males and 10 percent of females said they considered a religious vocation at least “a little seriously,” a study by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate at …
Author brings complex philosophy to bear on parenting problems today
If Aristotle’s Kid Had an iPod: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Parents by Conor Gallagher.
Faith-science dialogue takes center stage at synod on evangelization
October 5, 2012 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — The dialogue between faith and science will take center stage during the upcoming Synod of Bishops on the new evangelization, when a Nobel Prize-winning microbiologist addresses some 250 bishops from around the world.
Pope authorizes granting of indulgences for Year of Faith events
October 5, 2012 VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholics who participate in events connected with the 2012-2013 Year of Faith can receive a special indulgence, the Vatican said.
In final weeks of campaign season, politicos buying up local TV ad time
By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — In the wake of the Republicans’ and Democrats’ national conventions bookending the Labor Day holiday, it seemed as if each campaign asked questions that ended with the words “better off.”
Cardinal Wuerl: Synod strives to turn back ‘tsunami of secularism’
October 5, 2012 Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — At the Synod of Bishops, which opens Oct. 7 with a papal Mass in St. Peter’s Square, some 250 prelates from around the world will meet for three weeks to talk and pray about the new evangelization.