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Roman Catholic Church stories: 26 news summaries

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Maria Shriver: Why I'm a
'Cafeteria Catholic'

'Good standing' Catholic opposes church positions on gays, divorce and choice

Nov 16, 08 8:51 AM CST
(Newser) - California First Lady Maria Shriver likes the "compassion and justice of Jesus Christ" advanced by her Catholic religion, but can't abide the church's positions on gays, divorce and a woman's right to choose whether or not to have an abortion, she reveals in a Washington Post interview. "I'm... More »

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abortion • California • gay marriage • divorce • Catholic Church • Arnold Schwarzenegger • communion • Maria Shriver • gays • Roman Catholic Church

 Bishops to Press Obama 
  on Abortion Ban

Catholic leaders re-energize abortion opposition at annual meet

Nov 12, 08 3:56 AM CST
(Newser) - America's Roman Catholic bishops appear to be on a collision course with the Obama administration over abortion, the Chicago Tribune reports. At the bishops’ annual meeting yesterday in Baltimore the group began drafting a statement that will call on the president-elect to outlaw the procedure. The bishops also threatened to... More »

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Joe Biden • abortion • Xavier University • Obama administration • Roman Catholic Church • President Obama • Roman Catholic bishops • Catholic hospitals

 Vatican Will Root Out
Gay Priests With Sex Tests

New guidelines keep gays from priesthood

Oct 31, 08 1:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Catholic Church plans to screen gay men out of the priesthood with psychological tests aimed to detect "deep-seated homosexual tendencies" in seminary candidates, the Scotsman reports. Under the new guidelines, issued yesterday by the Vatican, potential priests will also be screened for "grave immaturity" and “imbalances”... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • gay priests • Vatican • sexual abuse • gays • Roman Catholic Church • priesthood

 US Bishops
 Rewrite
 Catholic Mass

Language loftier, less prosaic 

Aug 12, 08 7:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - For the first time in almost five decades, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops has changed the wording of the Catholic Mass for both priests and congregations. The Mass liturgy, often criticiized as being too conversational to be reverent, is being rewritten to sound loftier, reports National Public Radio.  More »

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Mass • Jesuits • Roman Catholic Church • US Conference of Catholic Bishops • liturgy • All Things Considered • James Martin

Abortion Swells Obama's Woes With Catholics

Winning back once-loyal bloc seen
as a struggle for Dem

Aug 7, 08 9:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are making a major push for Catholic voters, a demographic that decisively chose George W. Bush over the Catholic John Kerry in 2004. To win back a once-reliable constituency, Democrats may offer a convention speaking slot to Bob Casey, the Pennsylvania senator who opposes abortion rights. Even so, the... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • John Kerry • Tim Kaine • Kathleen Sebelius • Catholics • George W. Bush • Bob Casey • Roman Catholic Church

 Boston Diocese
 Boots 'Women Priests' 

Church excommunicates 4 women ordained in unsanctioned ritual

Jul 21, 08 9:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A group campaigning for women to be admitted to the Roman Catholic priesthood held a ceremony in a Protestant church in Boston yesterday in which three women were declared Catholic priests and a fourth a deacon. The Archdiocese of Boston immediately denounced the action and declared that the women had... More »

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Vatican • Archdiocese of Boston • Roman Catholic Church • women priests • Catholic Action League • Church of the Covenant • Eucharist • Holy Orders • Gloria Carpeneto • Judy Lee • Gabriella Velardi Ward

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