In Fighting Teenage Pregnancy, the Folly of Shame and Blame
“It is well past time when anyone can afford to be value-neutral when it comes to teen pregnancy.”, the Mayor’s Press Office (New York) In the South Bronx, inside the International Community High...
View ArticleBan on Free Condoms Jeopardizes Group’s Work With Catholic College
NEWTON, Mass. — Chelsea Lennox, a junior at Boston College, the Gothic university overlooking this natty Boston suburb, picked up a bouquet of brightly colored condom packages and put them into the...
View ArticleAndrew M. Greeley: Priest, Author, Scholar, Scold
SW: When I tell people about HowMany.org, they ask “What about the pope?” Andrew Greeley was an ardent Catholic who once wrote: “I always wanted to be a priest,” he once wrote. “My core identity is...
View ArticleFinal Rule Issued for Contraceptive Coverage
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration issued a final rule on Friday requiring many employers and health insurance plans to provide free coverage of contraceptives for women, a policy that has touched...
View ArticlePhilippines top court extends stay on family planning law
Manila: The Supreme Court has extended indefinitely the implementation of a controversial family planning law pending hearings between critics and supporters of the law. Justices voted 8-7 in favour...
View ArticlePope Says Church Is ‘Obsessed’ With Gays, Abortion and Birth Control
Six months into his papacy, Pope Francis sent shock waves through the Roman Catholic church on Thursday with the publication of his remarks that the church had grown “obsessed” with abortion, gay...
View ArticlePhilippine top court defies church to back birth control
The Supreme Court in the Philippines has approved a birth control law, in a defeat for the Catholic Church. The law requires government health centres to distribute free condoms and contraceptive...
View ArticleVatican to debate teachings on divorce, birth control, gay unions
Contraception, cohabitation, divorce, remarriage and same-sex unions: They’re issues that pain and puzzle Roman Catholics who want to be true to both their church and themselves. Now those issues are...
View ArticlePhilippines welcomes 100 millionth baby
A baby girl born early Sunday has officially pushed the population of the Philippines to 100 million, highlighting the challenge of providing for more people in the already-impoverished nation. The...
View ArticleBiden, a Catholic School ‘Kid,’ Praises Nuns Under Fire From the Vatican
DES MOINES — At a Vatican meeting a few years ago, Pope Benedict XVI unexpectedly asked Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. for some advice. “You are being entirely too hard on the American nuns,” Mr....
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