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CHA: Religious exemption to HHS 'wholly inadequate,'

Friday, 30 September 2011 00:00

The proposed religious exemption to the federal mandate that health insurance plans cover contraceptives and sterilization is "wholly inadequate to protect the conscience rights of Catholic hospital and health care organizations," the head of the Catholic Health Association told the Department of Health and Human Services.

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Catholic, other groups mourn executions of inmates

Friday, 30 September 2011 00:00

Davis, 42, was put to death for his conviction in the 1989 murder of off-duty Savannah, Ga., police officer Mark MacPhail. Brewer, 44, an admitted white supremacist, was executed for his role in the 1998 race-fueled murder of James Byrd Jr., who was dragged for miles from the back of a pickup truck.

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Campus ministry challenge: Sustaining college students' faith

Friday, 30 September 2011 00:00

While a new study of evangelical college students finds that up to half of them can drift from their faith while attending school, Catholics in campus ministry say that the findings are applicable to Catholic college students as well.

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Prayers, commemorations mark 9/11 anniversary

Friday, 16 September 2011 00:00

Churchgoers around the United States Sept. 11 shared in moments of silence, special prayers, homilies and other ways of observing the 10th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks.

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New poverty figures show Hispanics, children especially hard hit

Wednesday, 14 September 2011 08:58

WASHINGTON (CNS) — As the median U.S. household income declined, more Americans dropped below the poverty line, with Hispanics and children taking a particularly hard hit, according to statistics released Sept. 13 by the U.S. Census Bureau. The bureau's report on "Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2010" put the nation's official poverty rate at 15.1 percent for the third consecutive annual increase.

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Papal intentions for June: That a culture of dialogue, listening, and mutual respect may prevail among peoples; That where secularization is strongest, Christian communities may effectively promote a new evangelization.