What the hell don’t you understand about the term separation of Church and State. Keep your evil hands off of our Health Care Bill. Mind your own business. We don’t care about your beliefs, and if you want to meddle…

November 19th, 2009 by Archbishop Charles Chaput
What the hell don’t you understand about the term separation of Church and State. Keep your evil hands off of our Health Care Bill. Mind your own business. We don’t care about your beliefs, and if you want to meddle…
November 11th, 2009 by Bishop Thomas J. Tobin
Dear Congressman Kennedy:
“The fact that I disagree with the hierarchy on some issues does not make me any less of a Catholic.” (Congressman Patrick Kennedy)
Since our recent correspondence has been rather public, I hope you don’t mind if I share…
November 5th, 2009 by Cardinal Justin Rigali
The recent canonization of Saint Damien of Molokai and Saint Jeanne Jugan (Sister Mary of the Cross) gives us the opportunity to reflect on their lives and example this week and next week.
The missionary spirit
The command of Jesus to “go…
October 29th, 2009 by Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan
I wish I could tell you that Church leaders were brave, countercultural and prophetic,” I can still hear him say, “but that would not be the truth.”
“With very few exceptions,” he went on, “Catholics in the United States did little…
October 10th, 2009 by USCCB
Dear Member of Congress:
On behalf of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), we are writing to express our
disappointment that progress has not been made on the three priority criteria for health care reform that we have conveyed previously…
October 3rd, 2009 by Cardinal Justin Rigali
Respect Life Sunday, this year celebrated on October 4th is a day set aside for Catholics
in the United States to reflect with gratitude on God’s priceless gift of human life. It is also an
occasion to examine how well we, as…
October 1st, 2009 by Cardinal Justin Rigali
This week’s title is taken directly from the web site of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and it concerns the upcoming new translations of the Roman Missal, which our priests and faithful will most likely be using within…
September 4th, 2009 by Bishop Samuel Aquila
Dear Priests, Deacons, Religious and Faithful of the Diocese of Fargo,
At this time in our nation’s history, we continually face new challenges as we witness to the Gospel in an ever increasing secularized society. Currently our civil leaders are discussing…
September 1st, 2009 by Francis Cardinal George, OMI
The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, followed a week later by the Feast of the Queenship of Mary, are moments to recall our own future with God. Because Christ is risen from the dead in his…
August 22nd, 2009 by Kevin D. Roberts, Ph.D.
This month, in 1790, the Roman Catholic Church in the United States achieved an important milestone: the installation of the first bishop, in the first American see of Baltimore. Father John Carroll’s consecration — fittingly, on the Feast of the…
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