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In this week’s issue of The Catholic Sun (Sept. 18, 2008), you’ll find an interesting column by Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, director of education for the National Catholic Bioethics Center and a syndicated columnist we regularly feature (page 11).  Fr. Pacholczyk discusses the importance of Catholic voting and the challenge of weighing hot-button issues.  “Some issues, however, [...]

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops would like to discuss a variety of election issues with Republican Sen. John McCain and Democratic Sen. Barack Obama to meet before the Nov. 4 election, The Wall Street Journal reported today. “This isn’t born of any concern or worry or problem,” Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., chairman of the [...]

You won’t hear talk of intelligent design or creationism at a Vatican-sponsored conference on evolution in March. Catholic News Service reported yesterday that organizers — the Pontifical Council for Culture, Rome’s Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Notre Dame in Indiana — will exclude creationism and intelligent design from the conference, which marks the [...]

I’ve found myself on the Life Teen Web site a lot lately. I’ve either been looking up details on its “Give It Away Now!” global service project or peeking at this week’s Priests and Musicians conference agenda trying to decide if there’s a session I should cover. I’ll admit I’ve also been distracted by their [...]

Catholics who attended Mass Sept. 13-14 saw a short video that featured Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted urging the faithful to support Proposition 102 in the upcoming election. Proposition 102, if passed by voters, will amend the Arizona Constitution by providing a legal definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman. Related [...]