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USCCB Chairman Welcomes Final Clean Power Plan Rules
The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, welcomed the White House’s Clean Power Plan that establishes federal limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plans.
Blessed Serra Set for Sainthood
Soon-to-be canonized missionary brought the faith to the American West.
Cardinal Urges US Senators: Defund Planned Parenthood
Cardinal O’Malley urged senators to take the federal money that goes to Planned Parenthood and instead fund women’s health care providers that do not promote abortion.
Gov. Walker Bans Late-Term Abortions
Governor Walker signed a bill into law that would prohibit all Wisconsin abortions at or beyond the 20-week gestation mark.
Playing Organ at Church Paved Way to Carnegie Hall
“How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Richard Steinbach of Sioux City points to playing the organ for Mass while in grade school.
Archbishop Concerned About Same-Sex Ruling
The Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage will likely have broad effects across the legal system, said Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee for Religious Liberty.
Cardinal Baum Was Nation’s Longest Serving Cardinal
Cardinal William W. Baum, the archbishop of Washington from 1973 to 1980, died after a long illness. He was a cardinal for 39 years – the longest such tenure in U.S. Church history.
Little Sisters to Appeal ObamaCare Decision
In a July 23 filing with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Little Sisters of the Poor have asked the court for relief from being forced to comply with the federal contraceptive mandate or face heavy fines.
Court to Pharmacists: Conscience Is Not Part of the Prescription
A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals July 23 reversed a lower court ruling that had granted pro-life pharmacists at a pharmacy in Washington state the right on religious grounds to refuse to stock emergency contraception or fill such prescriptions.