Topic: Pope Paul Vi

In today's episode of Guess Who's Running For Re-Election?, the administration throws beneath a bus the 51 percent of the population that would...

Vow of chastity and the pill may keep nuns healthy

LONDON (Reuters) - Nuns should be offered the contraceptive pill, on health grounds, since it would cut their risk of getting cancer, two Australian doctors said on Thursday.The vow of chastity taken by the world's 95,000 Catholic nuns carries with ...
There are times when the past seems prologue. History, contained in its specific context, shatters time's boundaries and assumes an unanticipated...
Mercedes-Benz Celebrates 125 Years of Innovation at Amelia Island Concours d'Elegance. Mar. 13, 2011 (PR Newswire) - . /* Style Definitions */...
Cristina Alarcon This year marks the 50th anniversary of the pill. Up until its appearance, most Catholics were clear about Church teaching on...
me yelling, him yelling back; lying back-to-back at night, only to wake up and start the process all over again. And although my (then) fianc?e and I agreed that we would like to learn more about natural family planning, I was ...

Women's Religious Orders

Second Vatican Council Failed Women in Religious OrdersOn December 25, 1961, Pope John XXIII made the official announcement to the Catholic Church that the Second Vatican Council would begin in 1962. This council undertook the transformation of outdated policies within the church ...

Pilgrim People, Part II

Pope Benedict made a good start on responding to the Irish scandals, but that promising beginning was upended by the misguided statements of others in the Vatican. For weeks we witnessed the hard issues of sexual abuse being dodged while elderly and ...
<div id="subtitle">Letter from 1963 indicates former Pope Paul VI knew of US priest abuse problems</div><div><p>The head of a Roman Catholic order that specialized in the treatment of pedophile priests visited with then-Pope Paul VI nearly 50 ...
Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday sought to boost ties between the Roman Catholic Church and the art world as he met with dozens of artists in the Vatican's illustrious Sistine Chapel.The pope urged non-believers to " "After an apogee during the ...