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(Newser) - Ireland’s Catholic leader is urging the faithful to engage social networking to spread the word of God, the Times reports. “Make someone the gift of a prayer through text, Twitter, or e-mail every day,” Cardinal Sean Brady said. “Such a sea of prayer is sure to... More »

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social networking • Internet • Catholic Church • religion • Ireland • prayer • cardinals • Irish Catholicism • Twitter • Sean Brady • Father Patrick Peyton

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

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

OPINION

 Catholics Spoof ShamWow 

Possibly without realizing pitchman was arrested for punching a hooker

Apr 13, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Catholic Church must not have any idea who Vince Shlomi, “the ShamWow guy,” actually is, writes Ryan Tate on Gawker. The church recently spoofed the ShamWow infomercials to promote itself via “SoulWow.” But, um, “Guys, Vince was just arrested barely two weeks ago for... More »

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(Newser) - The majority of Catholics voted for Obama in November, but they haven’t exactly been singing hosannas to him since. Though Obama made no secret of his support for stem cell research and his intention to overturn the ban on family planning funding overseas, even moderate Catholics have been disappointed... More »

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stem cell research • Barack Obama • abortion • Catholic Church • Catholics

'Piegate' Nabs Homemade Treats

Pa. food inspectors crack down on sale of non-commercial goods

Apr 10, 09 10:47 AM CDT
(Newser) - Homemade pies are under siege in Pennsylvania, as state inspectors crack down on commercial goods not baked in approved kitchens. The "piegate" affair started at a small-town fish fry, where the desserts are part of the Catholic parish's Lent fundraiser, reports the Wall Street Journal. Safety codes require use... More »

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Catholic Church • Pennsylvania • food safety • Lent • pie

(Newser) - Italy today held a mass state funeral for 205 of the people killed in the Abruzzo earthquake and observed a national day of morning, the BBC reports. Dozens of coffins and thousands of people gathered at the open-air service at a police training base outside the damaged city of L’... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Italy • funeral • earthquake • Good Friday

Kennedy Is 'Mistake' for Vatican Post: Ex-Envoy Flynn

She's a rumored candidate for ambassador to the Holy See

Apr 9, 09 12:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Caroline Kennedy can’t seem to catch a break. The onetime Senate aspirant is being called a “mistake” for ambassador to the Vatican. “It’s essential that the person who represents us to the Holy See be a person who has pro-life values,” Raymond Flynn, who held... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg • ambassador • Obama administration • Raymond Flynn

Holy Cross Priests Rip Obama Notre Dame Invitation

Order charges Notre Dame 'risks its soul' by letting prez speak

Apr 9, 09 3:24 AM CDT
(AP) - Ten priests from the Holy Cross order that founded the University of Notre Dame say the school risks its "true soul" and could alienate itself from the Catholic Church by inviting President Obama to campus next month. They urged  the Holy Cross priest who heads Notre Dame to reconsider... More »

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stem cell research • abortion • Catholic Church • priest • Notre Dame • Holy Cross • President Obama • honorary degree

 Facebook Users to Deluge 
 Pope With Condoms 


Thousands protest pontiff's claim that contraceptives don't halt HIV

Mar 28, 09 7:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - The pope’s recent remark that condoms not only don’t prevent the spread of HIV but make it worse hasn’t earned him many friends on Facebook, CNN reports. Almost a dozen groups have sprung up in protest of the pontiff’s scientifically inaccurate statement, with thousands of Facebookers—... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • Facebook • protests • AIDS prevention • condoms • Howard Stern Grid

 Notre Dame 
 Students Support  
 Obama Invite  

Bishops are angry, but students want to see the president

Mar 27, 09 11:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's invitation to speak at Notre Dame's graduation has prompted protests from two bishops, who blasted the Catholic school for inviting a president who supports stem-cell research and funding for family-planning clinics that offer abortion. But students are eager for Obama's visit, the AP reports. Based on letters to... More »

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stem cell research • Catholic Church • Notre Dame • graduation • speech • President Obama • Roman Catholic bishops • family planning

 2 Teens Die in Pope Stampede 


Mar 22, 09 7:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two teenage girls were killed in a wild stampede as people rushed to view Pope Benedict in Angola yesterday, reports the Times of London. Some 30,000 people raced into a stadium where the pope spoke at a youth rally. The teenagers died at the scene and dozens were injured.... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • stadium • pontiff • Angola

Vatican Insiders Call Pope
'a Disaster'

Gaffe-prone and out-of-touch Benedict aggravates Holy See

Mar 20, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - As Benedict XVI continues his pilgrimage in Africa, sources inside the Vatican say that the pope's frequent gaffes and difficulties with modern communication are threatening to undermine him. One member of the Vatican told the Telegraph that Benedict is "a disaster" who is "out of touch with the... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Vatican • Holy See • Richard Williamson

French Blast Pope's Anti-Condom Remarks

Condoms make Africa AIDS crisis worse, he had said

Mar 18, 09 3:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - Irked by Pope Benedict’s anti-condom remarks in Africa, the French foreign ministry today called them “a threat to public health policies and the duty to protect human life” and voiced “extremely sharp concern over the consequences,” the BBC reports. The pontiff said on the first day... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Vatican • condom • AIDS epidemic

 Church Must Protect 
 Africa's Poor: Pope 

Pontiff praises growing church but worries about 'superstition'

Mar 18, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(AP) - Pope Benedict XVI set down strategy for his church in Africa today, telling bishops to protect the traditional values of the African family and to spare the poor from the impact of globalization. The pontiff, beginning his first African pilgrimage in Cameroon, also said that the exuberant local African rites... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Cameroon • Paul Biya

 Pope: Condoms Make 
 AIDS Crisis Worse 

On visit to Africa, pope makes first statement on their use

Mar 17, 09 8:09 AM CDT
(AP) - Condoms are not the answer to Africa's fight against AIDS, and in fact exacerbate the epidemic, Pope Benedict said at the start of a 7-day visit to the continent today. It's the first explicit statement about condoms from the pontiff, who has said that the Roman Catholic Church is at... More »

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Africa • Pope Benedict XVI • AIDS • Catholic Church • HIV • condom • HIV/AIDS • AIDS epidemic

Pope Admits Fault in Holocaust Bishop Flap

Vatican vows to plug into how news spreads online

Mar 11, 09 3:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict will release a personal letter to bishops tomorrow that explains why he reinstated an excommunicated Holocaust denier and expresses regret for how that news was delivered, the New York Times reports. In leaked passages, the pontiff admits mistakes and promises greater awareness in the future of how news... More »

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Israel • Pope Benedict XVI • Catholic Church • Jews • Vatican • Richard Williamson

Brazil Prez Flouts Church, Backs Abortion Docs

Girl has popular support

Mar 11, 09 12:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - Brazil’s president today attacked the archbishop who excommunicated the doctors who performed an abortion on a 9-year-old rape victim. The girl had allegedly been impregnated with twins by her stepfather, who was not disciplined when Jose Cardoso Sobrinho excommunicated the girl’s mother and her doctors. “In this... More »

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abortion • Catholic Church • Brazil • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva • child rape • Bill Maher Grid

 Church Scolded 
 Joe About Monroe 

'You never should have married her in the first place,' bishop told DiMaggio

Mar 9, 09 5:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Catholic bishop scolded divorced Joltin' Joe Dimaggio for marrying Marilyn Monroe—and the famous slugger never talked to the cleric again, reports the New York Post. After DiMaggio's marriage to Monroe dissolved, Bishop Fulton Sheen told him: "You had no business marrying her in the first place,"... More »

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divorce • Catholic Church • New York Yankees • Marilyn Monroe • Joe DiMaggio • celebrity divorces

 Vatican Can 
 Be Sued 
 for Abuse: 
 US Court 

Ruling finds that Vatican can be held responsible for priests' actions

Mar 5, 09 3:35 AM CST
(Newser) - A federal court has ruled that the Vatican hierarchy can be sued for sexual abuse committed by priests, the Los Angeles Times reports. Judges decided that a man—who says he was molested by a priest in the '60s—can proceed with his lawsuit against the Vatican, even though it's... More »

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Catholic Church • Vatican • sexual abuse • lawsuit • priest sex abuse • clergy

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