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Brain-dead patients prompt new questions about end-of-life decisions
BALTIMORE (CNS) -- Recent conflicts in California and Texas between physicians and the families of patients considered to be brain dead have prompted new questions about end-of-life decision-making.
Parish religious educators in archdiocese honored at Cathedral Mass, ceremony
Archbishop Chaput gave awards to more than 250 people who teach and model the Catholic faith to children in growing parish religious education programs. Family members of Bishop Joseph McFadden also received a posthumous award for him.
Nine days of prayer part of Roe v. Wade anniversary events for 2014
UPDATED -- WASHINGTON (CNS) -- For the second year in a row, the U.S. Catholic bishops are sponsoring "Nine Days for Life: Prayer, Penance and Pilgrimage," planned for Jan. 18-26 this year to mark the 41st anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion virtually on demand in the U.S.
U.S. military archbishop makes pastoral visit to Guantanamo base
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba (CNS) -- Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services visited the naval station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as part of a five-day pastoral visit.
Women get leadership training for small study groups
The Endow organization is offering women training and study of Pope John Paul II’s “Letter to Women” as a follow up to the Catholic Women’s Conference.
Supreme Court won’t hear case of Arizona’s late-term abortion ban
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Arizona's law banning abortions at the 20-week stage remains unenforceable, after the Supreme Court Jan. 13 declined to hear the state's appeal of a lower court ruling that the 2012 law is unconstitutional.
Pope supports efforts to help parents of disabled, remove barriers
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Meeting a leading Italian campaigner for the rights of people with disabilities, Pope Francis promised to encourage greater support for the parents of young people with disabilities and to support efforts to make churches and church buildings accessible.
Pope says abortion, hunger, environmental damage threaten peace
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis said world peace requires the defense of human dignity from violations such as world hunger, human trafficking and abortion.
Pope to moms: It’s OK to breast-feed in public, even in Sistine Chapel
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis assured mothers that breast-feeding their babies in public, even during a papal Mass in the Sistine Chapel, is OK.
New cardinal counts Pope Benedict, liberation theologian as friends
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Archbishop Gerhard L. Muller, prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, was the first Vatican official formally confirmed in his post by Pope Francis and will be among the first 19 men the pope inducts into the College of Cardinals.