Killing babies after they are born is no different from abortion, according to a group of Oxford-affiliated theorists. In an article published recently in the Journal of Medical Ethics titled “After-birth abortion: Why should the baby live?,” authors Alberto Giublini and Francesca Minerva argue: “The moral status of an infant is equivalent to that of […]
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Nature Causes Havoc for Southern Illinois Churches
by Liz Quirin RIDGWAY, Ill. (CNS) – Elizabeth Schmitt, who planned to get married in May at St. Joseph Church in Ridgway, never imagined she would be picking up debris from the gothic church that was completely destroyed in the Feb. 29 tornado. Tornadoes swept through parts of the Midwest and the South, killing at […]
Going to the London Olympics? – Catholic Sites Include the Tombs of Saints, Churches Predating the Reformation, and Prisons of Martyrs
LONDON (CNS) – Visitors to the 2012 Olympic Games might be surprised to discover the extent to which London has been marked by the Catholic faith over the centuries. Riding the trains of the London Underground they notice stations with names such as Temple, Blackfriars, Charing Cross and Covent Garden. Above ground, the traces of […]
New Vicar Will Serve Parishes in Brooklyn
by Antonina Zielinska In the presence of his brother priests, his family, Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio, retired Bishop Thomas V. Daily and Auxiliary Bishop Octavio Cisnero, Father Joseph Grimaldi swore to uphold the office of the Episcopal Vicar for Brooklyn. Holy Name Church, Park Slope, was filled March 3 during the installation Mass. “Thank you, bishop, […]
Tuition Tax Credits – Local Congressman Supports Relief for Parents Who Choose Parochial Schools
Last week, Congressman Bob Turner (NY-09) introduced the Tax and Education Assistance for Children (TEACH) Act of 2012. The bill will provide a tax credit of up to $5,000 for families who send their children to private schools and eliminate “double taxation” on parents who send their children to non-public schools. “Today, I am introducing […]
Keep the Faith! You’ll Be Happier If You Have Friends in Church
by Nancy Frazier O’Brien WASHINGTON (CNS) – Harvard public policy professor Robert D. Putnam has a tongue-in-cheek suggestion for pastors: “Spend less time on the sermons, and more time arranging the church suppers.” That’s because research by Putnam and Chaeyoon Lim, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shows that the more church […]
Boys’ Town Founder Is Up for Sainthood
by Lisa Maxson OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) — It started in 1917 with a rented house, five boys who needed a home in Omaha and a Catholic priest determined to help troubled and abandoned youths throughout the city. Now, Boys Town helps more than 1.6 million people each year through its main campus of group homes, […]
St. Patrick’s Day Special
Next week, The Tablet will publish its St. Patrick’s Day special edition. It will include coverage of the Queens St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Rockaway; an interview with Frank Comerford, Grand Marshal of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan; and the latest in upcoming St. Patrick’s events in the parishes in Brooklyn and Queens. […]
Speakers Claim RHA Is Completely Unnecessary
by Marie Elena Giossi With the Reproductive Health Act pending in New York State, the radical measures proposed in the act and actions that can be taken to oppose it were the topic of a panel discussion at St. John’s University Law School, Jamaica, March 4. Titled “What You Need to Know about the ‘RHA’ […]
Midwives Lose Conscience Rights
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) – A Scottish court ruled that two senior Catholic midwives have no right to conscientiously object to overseeing staff involved in late-term abortions in a state-run hospital. The Court of Session, Scotland’s supreme civil court, ruled that Mary Doogan, 57, and Concepta Wood, 51, could not invoke the conscience clause of the […]