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 Maine Shoots Down 
 Same-Sex Marriage 

Law repealed by 53% of voters with rural, Catholic backing

Nov 4, 09 4:45 AM CST
(Newser) - Maine voters yesterday shot down a state law allowing same-sex marriage after an emotionally charged campaign that drew hordes to the polls. The vote was another indication of a list to the right election night. “It has all come together and the institution of marriage has been preserved,"... More »

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gay rights • gay marriage • Maine • vote • Catholic • rural America

 Catholics 
 Rip Larry for 
 Whizzing 
 on Jesus 

Urine taken for 'miraculous tears' by Curb characters

Oct 30, 09 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - The US Catholic League has complained about an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm that shows Larry David accidentally urinating on a painting of Jesus hanging in a bathroom. Other characters then think the painting is miraculously crying. "Was Larry David always this crude?" asked angry league president Bill Donahue.... More »

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parody • satire • Larry David • Curb Your Enthusiasm • comedy • Catholic League • Catholic • Jesus Christ

(Newser) - An editor of a Catholic newspaper criticized for a gay affair in a publication owned by the brother of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is out of a job, reports the New York Times. He resigned just days after he slammed the randy head of state in an editorial for... More »

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newspaper • Italy • Rome • Vatican • Catholic • Silvio Berlusconi • homosexual • gay • Il Giornale

 Kennedy to Pope: Pray for Me 

Senator wrote letter delivered by Obama

Aug 30, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - In the months before he died, Ted Kennedy penned a letter to Pope Benedict beseeching the pontiff's prayers—and enlisted no less a messenger than the leader of the free world to deliver it, reports CNN. “I am writing with deep humility to ask that you pray for me... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Ted Kennedy • faith • Catholicism • prayer • Catholic • political dynasty • brain cancer • President Obama • letter

OPINION

 US Nuns Dodge 
 Specter of Sex Abuse 


Aug 17, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last week the largest group of American nuns held its annual meeting, and once again they refused to let survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic schools attend. When even the bishops have acknowledged the depth and seriousness of abuse within the Church, it's strange for the nuns to bury their... More »

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Catholic Church • sexual abuse • nuns • abuse • clergy abuse scandal • Catholic

analysis



 Why Gingrich 
 Became Catholic 


Aug 16, 09 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Newt Gingrich shrugged off religious issues while in office, and was recently seen reading a novel before Mass—so why his sudden conversion to Catholicism? Some analysts say he converted this spring to position himself for the Republican nomination in 2012. Joining other high-profile conservatives on the road to Rome,... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Catholic Church • conservative • convert • Catholic • conversion • Election 2012

OPINION

She's Catholic, Too, You Know

There's zero scrutiny
of Sotomayor's religion because she's pro-choice

Jul 14, 09 11:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sonia Sotomayor would be the sixth Catholic on the Supreme Court, but that’s getting relatively little attention because of a political double-standard, writes William McGurn of the Wall Street Journal. When Samuel Alito was the nominee du jour, Democrats worried that he’d be the fifth Catholic. But... More »

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abortion • gay marriage • Catholicism • diversity • Catholic • US Supreme Court • Sonia Sotomayor • Supreme Court justice

Obama Brings Pope Letter From Ailing Kennedy

President asks Benedict to pray for ill senator

Jul 10, 09 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama delivered a letter from Ted Kennedy to Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican today, CNN reports. Obama met with the pontiff for about a half hour before leaving Rome for Ghana. The contents of Kennedy’s letter were personal, an Obama aide said, and “not known to... More »

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cancer • Barack Obama • Pope Benedict XVI • Ted Kennedy • Rome • Vatican • Massachusetts • Catholic • Holy See • senator • Denis McDonough • brain cancer • brain tumor • President Obama • letter

Vatican Steps Up Scrutiny
of American Nuns

Nuns fear church heirarchy is seeking to return them to strictly traditional ways

Jul 2, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican has launched two major probes into the lives of America's 60,000 nuns, the New York Times reports. Many nuns have stopped wearing habits, moved out of convents, and found work in academia or political advocacy in the last few decades, and some fear the investigations are part... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • nuns • Catholic

OPINION

Once a Pro-Lifer, She'll Soon Perform Abortions

Med student details what changed her mind

Jun 7, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rozalyn Farmer Love grew up Catholic, taught that abortions are categorically wrong. But the third-year medical student delved into women's health, meeting women in agonizing situations along the way, and realized that although "ending an unwanted pregnancy is a tragedy," it's far worse to deny "safe, competent... More »

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reproductive rights • abortion • women's health • abortion rights • Catholic • medical students

Confession Isn't Therapy, Church Warns

Priests told to get tough on sinners instead of providing counseling sessions

Jun 4, 09 4:12 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican plans a campaign to remind priests that the confessional isn't a psychiatrist's couch, the Guardian reports. A handbook will be issued to emphasize that sinners are in confession to be given penance, not counseling sessions. The number of Catholics going to confession has slumped in recent years and... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • confession

(Newser) - Students at Notre Dame upset that President Obama will deliver today's commencement address began an all-night prayer vigil Saturday night, reports AP. Earlier, campus police arrested 19 anti-abortion protesters—none of them students—and charged them with trespassing, notes CNN. The invitation to pro-choice Obama has raised a ruckus at... More »

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abortion • Notre Dame • Catholic • commencement speech • President Obama

(Newser) - A celibate monk in Poland has a surprise hit on his hands—a sex guide for married couples that's being labeled a Catholic Kama Sutra, the BBC reports. Poles quickly snapped up the first run of Father Ksawery Knotz' book, which argues that religious couples' sex life should be "... More »

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marriage • sex • priest • book • Catholic • intimacy

Priest Suspects Cuban Spies Snapped Him With Lover

Cutié says girlfriend is the love of his life

May 14, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A celebrity priest photographed cavorting with his girlfriend on a beach has hinted Cuban spies might have been tailing him, the Miami Herald reports. "I knew that during some time I was being followed," Father Alberto Cutié told a Spanish-language TV station. "Being Cuban-American, we have that... More »

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Florida • Catholic Church • sex scandal • Cuba • Miami • Catholic • spies • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié • celibacy

 Miami Priest 
 Admits 2-Year Affair 

Photo scandal may lead him to marry woman he says he loves

May 12, 09 6:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - The celebrity priest whose racy photos sparked a Catholic scandal broke his silence yesterday on The Early Show, admitting he’s in a 2-year sexual relationship with the woman in the pictures. Father Alberto Cutié said he’s in love with her and has never had sex with anyone else... More »

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sex scandal • priest • Catholic • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié • celibacy

(Newser) - Israeli-Vatican tensions are expected to heat up yet again during Pope Benedict's visit today as the pontiff presses Catholic claims over a room in Jerusalem believed to be the site of Christ's last supper. The room is in a building that served for centuries as a mosque and is now... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Jerusalem • Vatican • Catholic • The Last Supper • Jesus Christ • Eucharist • King David

(Newser) - A scandal involving a hunky and popular Catholic priest caught cavorting on a Florida beach with an attractive woman is renewing a debate over celibacy and the priesthood, the Miami Herald reports. After the Rev. Alberto Cutié—no sniggering, it's pronounced koo-tee-AY—was photographed kissing and fondling a woman,... More »

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sex scandal • priest • Catholic • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic priest • Alberto Cutié

Don't Blame Nuns for Your Bad Sex Life:
Catholic Honcho

Cosmo editor struggles 'to undo damage'

Apr 26, 09 4:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Are Catholic nuns responsible for repressed and sexually frustrated American women? That's absolute nunsense, fumes a conservative Catholic leader after a former sex-columnist-turned-deputy-editor at Cosmo blamed uptight teaching by nuns for women's sexual hangups. "It's not easy to undo damage caused by years of exposure to Catholic-school nuns,"... More »

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Catholic Church • sex • nuns • sex education • Catholic • repression • Roman Catholic Church • Catholic Action League • Cosmopolitan • Willam Donahue

(Newser) - Mel Gibson's wife filed for divorce when she learned his Russian lover was pregnant, reports the Sun. Robyn Gibson "put up with Mel for years but when she found out" Oksana Grigorieva was telling friends she was expecting, "it was the last straw," said a friend. Gibson... More »

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pregnancy • Catholic • Mel Gibson • celebrity pregnancy • extramarital affair • Robyn Gibson • celebrity breakup • Oksana Gorgieva

OPINION

Catholics 'Will
Enjoy' Da Vinci
Prequel: Howard

Director defends Angels & Demons from 'smear campaign'

Apr 21, 09 5:43 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ron Howard wants to make something clear: He is not anti-Catholic, and neither is his upcoming film, Angels & Demons. The beleaguered prequel to the similarly controversial Da Vinci Code is under fire from the Catholic League, and Howard responds to the latest “silly and mean-spirited work of propaganda”... More »

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entertainment • film • Catholic Church • Vatican • Catholicism • Catholic • Da Vinci Code • Dan Brown • Ron Howard • Angels & Demons

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