Sacramento, Aug 20, 2008 / 01:22 pm (CNA).- Proposition 8, the ballot initiative to protect marriage, has announced that it has received a $1 million contribution from the Knights of Columbus, the world's largest Catholic family fraternal service organization.
Chandler, AZ, Aug 20, 2008 / 12:05 pm (CNA).- Deacon Will Schmid stood at the ambo in St. Mary Parish and preached on the feast of St. Martha. She was a friend of Jesus who had Him over for a visit with her sister Mary.
Castelgandolfo, Aug 20, 2008 / 10:26 am (CNA).- During todays general audience in the courtyard of the Apostolic Palace in Castel Gandolfo, Pope Benedict XVI recalled the saints and feasts the liturgical calendar celebrates this week and the next.
Rome, Aug 20, 2008 / 09:56 am (CNA).- This week, Archbishop Marampudi Joji Hyderabad of India said that Hindu extremists who murdered Carmelite priest of Mary Immaculate, Father Thomas Pandippally, carried out the act for three reasons: because he was religious, because he was Christian and because he was charitable to the poor.
Washington DC, Aug 20, 2008 / 07:06 am (CNA).- A spokesman for Sen. John McCains presidential campaign has charged Sen. Barack Obama with misrepresenting his extreme record on abortion after the Obama campaign changed its explanation for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominees opposition to an Illinois bill that would have protected infants who survive abortions.
Denver, Aug 20, 2008 / 03:05 am (CNA).- Archbishop of Denver Charles J. Chaput was not invited to pray or speak at the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, in what former Boston mayor Ray Flynn called a serious oversight and an insult to the values of pro-life Catholics.
Guatemala City, Aug 20, 2008 / 01:04 am (CNA).- The Archbishop of Guatemala City, Cardinal Rodolfo Quezada Toruno, said this week that abortion is a crime and the murder of an innocent human being. Nobody has a right to get one, he stated while nothing thatall Guatemalans must defend life from conception to natural death.
Alton, IL, Aug 19, 2008 / 10:45 pm (CNA).- The Republican National Coalition for Life is calling on voters to contact the McCain Campaign to encourage them to select a pro-life vice-presidential candidate.
Quito, Aug 19, 2008 / 09:09 pm (CNA).- Yesterday, the Bishops Conference of Ecuador unanimously voiced support for their statement from July 28 in which they questioned the controversial new Constitution being promoted by President Rafael Correa. The new Constitution does not guarantee the right to life from the moment of conception, attacks the family and the rights of parents to educate their children according to their own convictions.
Washington DC, Aug 19, 2008 / 07:10 pm (CNA).- Presumptive Republican nominee and Arizona Sen. John McCain will reportedly announce his running mate pick on August 29, his 72nd birthday, at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, UPI reports.