US Malayalis on church buying spree - Times of India KOCHI: Kerala's Syro-Malabar Church, the world's second largest oriental Catholic Church, is busy buying property in the US and building its own churches. With its congregation growing in recent years, the Church is keen to have its own shrines. Publ.Date : 2012-02-03T23:31:48Z
Altar girls buck Catholic traditions of old - TMCnet Feb 03, 2012 (Victoria Advocate - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- For Mariah Morris, there's nothing better on Sunday morning than serving behind the pulpit at St. Mary's Catholic Church. As a weekly altar server at 8 a.m ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T03:56:40Z
Catholic leaders hold anti-abuse conference - Independent Online The Roman Catholic Church has been rocked in recent years by thousands of paedophilia scandals, some of them dating back decades. Cases of abusive priests and cover-ups began to go public in Ireland and the United States but have since been reported across ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T14:12:16Z
Where the Church's Growth Is Fastest - Zenit ROME, FEB. 3, 2012 (Zenit.org).- The northeast corner of India is the place where the Catholic Church has grown most over the past 30 years, with an average of about 10,000 adult baptisms every year -- and this despite the fact that for many generations ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T06:19:50Z
Catholic Social Doctrine: The Right to Work - Catholic Online Second, the fact that work affirms the dignity of the human person. CORPUS CHRISTI, TX (Catholic Online) - The Church honors human work, and sees it as a fundamental good of man. She recognizes it as both a duty and a right. The reason work is both a duty ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T13:00:41Z
Obama's Catholic miscalculation - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review The Catholic Church opposes those practices. Q: Did this edict come as a shock to the Catholic hierarchy? Does it feel betrayed by this mandate? A: To some extent, because (New York) Archbishop (Timothy) Dolan (head of the Conference of Catholic Bishops ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T04:53:56Z
Should Catholic agencies have to pay for employees' birth control? - Minot Daily News Churches and other houses of worship will not have to do so, but the government has said Catholic-affiliated agencies such as hospitals and charities will have to provide the coverage as well. The Roman Catholic Church officially forbids the use of ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-02T22:42:53Z
Church steps up fight against birth control requirement - Worcester Telegram & Gazette The already roiling political outcry from the American Roman Catholic Church over a new federal regulation that will force religious organizations to provide their employees with health insurance plans that cover contraception is expected to ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T14:12:16Z
