New Vatican exhibition reaches for the stars
Vatican City, Feb 2, 2012 / 06:12 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The Vatican’s Observatory is helping organize an exhibition that will delve into the history of the universe at both the human and celestial levels.
An Underappreciated Idea
Amazingly, a quick Google search of “One America” only produces hits for an insurance company, a large office building in Indianapolis and a civic organization with a commendable, albeit myopic message on our national diversity. Regrettably, there is nothing in the top search results about the countries of our hemisphere becoming one or even moving in that direction.
Why 'invent' the Palestinians?
Last month in Amman, Jordan, Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators met for their first time in 15 months to try to restart the "peace process." Meanwhile, the Palestinian group that rules in Gaza, Hamas, has repeated its declaration: "The battle for the liberation of Jerusalem is closer than ever and, God willing, we will win." Which is it to be, peace or war?
Violent Mexico needs a Papal visit
ROME, FEB. 2, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI's upcoming apostolic visit to Latin America will satisfy a sense of neglect that is felt there, says Mexico's ambassador to the Holy See
Religious leaders remind Europe of Christianity’s social good
Rome, Italy, Feb 2, 2012 / 06:02 pm (CNA).- The Council of Bishops’ Conferences of Europe and the Conference of European Churches are encouraging Christians to demonstrate the positive influence Christianity can have in the public sphere.
Bishop Slattery's statement in response to HHS mandate
Bishop Slattery's statement in response to HHS mandate
To all the Clergy, Religious and Lay Faithful of the Diocese of Tulsa, Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: These are dire times in which we live and dire times require that we not mince words but speak with authority when it comes to matters of faith, conscience and truth. I wish to join the Bishops of this country in expressing my fear that religious liberty in the United States is even now under attack from those elected officials whose duty it is to protect the inalienable right we have from God to worship Him and to defend the Constitution of the United States which guarantees that our right of conscience may neither be violated nor held in contempt. With the Bishops and with all right thinking Americans, I protest as strongly as I can the decision made by the Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services on January 20 which will require every Catholic in the United States to violate his or her Christian conscience and support abortion, abortion-inducing drugs, unnatural chemical contraception and direct sterilization.Archbishop Chaput says Obama administration sold out Catholic supporters
Philadelphia, Pa., Feb 3, 2012 / 06:08 am (CNA).- The Obama administration has betrayed Catholics by refusing to expand the religious exemption in Health and Human Services' contraception mandate, Philadelphia Archbishop Charles J. Chaput says.
Order of nuns using art to open door of faith
ROME, FEB. 2, 2012 (Zenit.org).- Walking the streets of Rome recently, one cannot fail to notice sisters robed in a distinctive green habit. They visit historic and artistic places of the capital, in particular cathedrals, abbeys and catacombs.
White House’s defense of mandate called inaccurate, misleading
Washington D.C., Feb 3, 2012 / 01:05 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- An expert in religious freedom says that the White House's defense of the contraception mandate contains inaccurate information and does not address the main complaints raised by its critics.
English and Welsh Catholics encouraged to carry ‘faith cards’
London, England, Feb 3, 2012 / 02:51 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The Catholic Church in England and Wales plans to distribute one million “faith cards” to every parish in the country in a bid to help all baptized Catholics to know, live and share their faith.
