German bishops will give Communion to those ‘remarried’ outside Church despite Vatican’s opposition

BY COLIN KERR Tue Jan 07, 2014 19:26 EST FREIBURG, Germany, January 7, 2013 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The president of the German bishops’ conference says the conference will press forward with their plan to begin distributing Communion to Catholics who have ‘remarried’ outside the Church after a divorce, despite the judgment of Archbishop Gerhard Müller, the prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Müller had excluded the possibility that those entering a second union without having secured a declaration of nullity would be eligible to receive communion. But Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt on December 29th, denied that the issue was settled in light of Müller’s negative stance. “A Prefect is not…Continue Reading

More pro-life laws passed in last two years than in the previous decade, pro-abortion study finds

BY KIRSTEN ANDERSON Fri Jan 03, 2014 15:00 EST WASHINGTON, D.C., January 3, 2014 (LifeSiteNews.com) – According to the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-abortion think tank with connections to Planned Parenthood, 2013 was a banner year for pro-life legislation, capping a three-year trend that saw more laws passed limiting abortion than in the previous 10 years combined. According to the group’s year-end report, 205 new abortion restrictions became law in the last three years, 70 in 2013 alone, making last year second only to 2011 as the most pro-life year across the state legislatures since Roe v. Wade. In the decade 2001-2010, only 189 similar restrictions were enacted. “This legislative onslaught has dramatically changed the landscape for women needing abortion,” the…Continue Reading

Court denies Notre Dame relief: university will comply with HHS mandate

  by Matthew Archbold January 2, 2014 (CNS) – Fewer than five years after President Barack Obama spoke at a University of Notre Dame commencement ceremony, promising “a sensible conscience clause” in the nation’s health care policies, the University has been denied its bid for a temporary stay on the HHS mandate requiring employee coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients and sterilization procedures.   Last week, a federal judge denied the University’s request for relief from the Obama administration’s mandate. Then on December 31, a panel of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals denied Notre Dame’s emergency motion for a stay, pending an appeal.   If the University fails to comply with the HHS mandate, it will face crippling fines of up…Continue Reading

Vatican Stresses That Pope Has Not Abolished Sin

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