Article: Catholics have a societal obligation ; Church's teachings require values backed by votes, activism.

Article: Church and state ; Professor examines the relationship of the Catholic Church to government.
Portland Press Herald (Maine);  March 25, 2007 ;     700+ words ......examines the relationship of the Catholic Church to government. Byline: RAY ROUTHIER...Audience The history of the Catholic Church, good and bad, shows what an...that an academic study of the Catholic Church's relationship to government...

Article: CAMBRIDGE HAS NEW OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH.(LIFESTYLE)
The Capital Times (Madison, WI);  November 12, 2002 ;     446 words ......clergyman has begun an American Old Catholic Church in Cambridge. Called Risen Christ...acceptable. In the American Old Catholic Church, Messina says, women can be...husband and wife. The American Old Catholic Church is not part of the Roman Catholic...

Article: The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru.
Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs;  July 1, 1998 ;     700+ words ......Michael, and Brian H. Smith. The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru...research on religion and the Catholic church in Latin America. Vallier described...in the late 1960s, the Roman Catholic church was entering a period of profound...

Article: Speaking the gospel.(LETTERS)(need for cooperation between the Catholic Church and policymakers)
Foreign Policy;  January 1, 2009 ;     482 words ...John Allen ( Think Again: The Catholic Church, November/December 2008) makes...that far from shrinking, the Catholic Church is actually in a period of enormous...observations? They should view the Catholic Church as a potential ally and resource...

Article: Roman Catholic Church Shifts Legal Strategy; Aggressive Litigation Replaces Quiet Settlements [ Corrected 6/6/02 ]
The Washington Post;  May 13, 2002 ;     700+ words ......months ago, she sued the Roman Catholic Church of Hawaii after a parish sacristan...of abusing the faithful, the Catholic Church has responded with a muscular...in Hartford that defends the Catholic Church in Connecticut. "I attempt to...

Article: Catholic Church should ordain women, says leading Anglican
The Independent on Sunday;  December 1, 2002 ;     373 words ......should be ordained into the Catholic Church says one of Britain's senior...Rev Holloway adds that the Catholic Church can circumvent the thorny issue...allowing its clergy to marry [the Catholic Church] would end up as bourgeois an...

Article: The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911-1984: A History
The Catholic Historical Review;  April 1, 2002 ;     518 words ...The Catholic Church in Mississippi, 1911-1984.- A History...Pp. xxiii, 313. $59.95 cloth.) The Catholic Church in Mississippi seems like an anomaly...the institutional development of the Catholic Church in inhospitable territory. Instead...

Article: The faith of the fathers; Lexington.(problems of the Catholic Church in the U.S.)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US);  March 23, 2002 ;     700+ words ...The Catholic church's deepest challenge may not be paedophilia...sexuality, but from social change. The Catholic church was once one of the most powerful...were extraordinarily successful. The Catholic church in America became not just one of...

Article: CATHOLIC CHURCH REACHES OUT TO WOMEN WHO HAVE HAD ABORTIONS.(FRONT)
The Virginian Pilot;  April 7, 2000 ;     700+ words ...The Roman Catholic Church has begun a nationwide campaign urging...the Rev. Jay Wagner of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Norfolk. In the past 14 days...life, Wagner said. ``Even though the Catholic Church is harsh in its wording about abortion...

Article: Rebel priest: 'Loony right has taken over Catholic Church'
The Sunday Herald;  April 9, 2000 ;     700+ words ......attached to St John Bosco's Roman Catholic church in Erskine, Father John Fitzsimmons...Thomas Winning, the leader of the Catholic Church in Scotland. The Church is fascist...many Scots the voice of the Catholic Church. His powerful and controversial...

Article: Graveyard of shame; `Catholic Church let cemetery go to ruin'.(News)
Sunday Mirror (London, England);  January 31, 1999 ;     354 words ...THE CATHOLIC Church has been criticised by a leading Ulster...Democratic Unionist Party described the Catholic Church's failure to maintain Cord Cemetery...smashed and spray-painted. But the Catholic Church is refusing to take charge of the...

Article: Laity conference aims to revitalize Ukrainian Catholic Church
Ukrainian Weekly, The;  December 11, 1994 ;     700+ words ......aims to revitalize Ukrainian Catholic Church. The Laity Council of the Ukrainian Catholic Church held its first conference...to revitalize the Ukrainian Catholic Church (UCC) from the grassroots level...

Article: China Exclusive: A Catholic church with more than 140 years of history in Tibet
Xinhua News Agency;  October 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ...China Exclusive: A Catholic church with more than 140 years of...reveal the truth: this is the Catholic church at Yanjing, also known as "yerkalo", the only Catholic church in the whole of the Tibet Autonomous...

Article: A traditional celebration Liberal Catholic Church in Villa Park to hold special weekend of services.(Neighbor)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  September 15, 2007 ;     578 words ......years in Illinois, the Liberal Catholic Church offers the ceremony and pomp...St. Francis, the only Liberal Catholic Church in the area, will hold services...regionary bishop of the Liberal Catholic Church of the United States, will celebrate...