Joint Orthodox Jewish-Catholic statement voices ‘shared commitment’ to marriage PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 02:32
New York, Sep 4, 2008 / 09:44 pm (CNA).- A joint statement on marriage has been issued by a group of Orthodox Jewish and Catholic leaders, affirming their faiths’ “shared commitment” to God’s design of marriage between one man and one woman. The statement reaffirms the duty of the state to safeguard the traditional place of marriage.

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California bill could require doctors to give patients options to refuse life-sustaining treatment PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 02:32
Sacramento, Sep 4, 2008 / 11:47 pm (CNA).- A pending bill in the California state legislature could force Catholic doctors and others opposed to assisted suicide to inform terminally ill patients of several facts, including that they have the “right of refusal or withdrawal from life-sustaining treatment.”

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Arizona bishops back state marriage amendment PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 02:32
Phoenix, Sep 5, 2008 / 03:34 am (CNA).- The bishops of Arizona on Thursday released a statement encouraging voters to support Proposition 102, an amendment on the November ballot that would establish a legal definition of marriage as between one man and one woman.

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Italian priest fined $80,000 for church bells’ ‘noise pollution’ PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 02:32
Rome, Sep 5, 2008 / 01:34 am (CNA).- An Italian priest has been ordered to pay more than eighty thousand dollars to a woman living near his church because she claims the bells were rung too loud and too long at “unsocial hours.”

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Philippines archbishop optimistic ‘reproductive health’ bill will fail to pass PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 06 September 2008 02:32
Manila, Sep 5, 2008 / 05:21 am (CNA).- Archbishop Paciano B. Aniceto, a prominent bishop from the Philippines, on Thursday said he is confident the country’s lawmakers will not pass a “reproductive health” bill that recommends a “two-child policy” and funding sterilizations and contraceptive distribution.

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