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February 10, 2012 issue
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Local stories:
- People of faith must stand together opposed to HHS mandate
- Catholic university leader, area doctor raise concerns about HHS regulation
- Indiana Catholic Conference view of recent HHS ruling
- Bishop Coyne talks about visit to Rome, social media and the motto that has guided him since his ordination
- Proposal to help families pay home utility costs advances
- Eligibility for the Low Income Heating and Energy Assistance Program
- What was in the news on Feb. 9, 1962? Ecumenical Council opening set for Oct. 11, and Jesuit priest discounts planetary fears
- Rockville parishioner donates his talents ‘Foor’ the love of God
- ‘God always outdoes us’: Downtown parish welcomes thousands of Super Bowl visitors
Regular local features:
- Editorial: Revitalizing Catholic schools
- From the Editor Emeritus: Biblical readings - The Book of Proverbs
- Cornucopia: All great men are not dead, just hidden in the weeds
- Faithful Lines: Realizing the wonder of God’s animal kingdom
- Twenty Something: The case for silence
- Letters to the Editor
- When it comes to abortion, let’s change people’s minds and hearts through education
- When are Catholics going to wake up? When will our leaders give us clarity?
- Let us pray for religious freedom for our Church and for all churches in our country
- Events Calendar
- ‘Catholicism’ producer to speak at Indianapolis parish
- Obituaries
- General listing
- Benedictine Father Donald Walpole was a teacher and talented artist
- Benedictine Father Eric Lies was a teacher, artist, administrator and retreat leader
- My Journey to God: Here I Am, Lord
Catholic News Service:
- Catholic doctors wonder how federal mandate will affect practice of medicine
- Lent is time to help others spiritually, materially, pope says
- Creating cardinals: Ceremony features something old, new, borrowed, red
- Komen reverses decision, reinstates grants to Planned Parenthood
- Reducing poverty will help bring about the kingdom of God, bishop says
- Rich-poor gap talk less relevant to agencies than caring for the poor
- Strong bond with God is defining quality of religious life, pope says
- U.S. court dimisses suit that state insurance officials brought against Vatican
- The Sunday Readings: Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Go Ask Your Father: Canon law allows spouse to serve as RCIA sponsor, but not a parent
FaithAlive!
- Holiness is what sets God and us apart from the world
- Pilgrimages to holy places lead believers closer to God and conversion
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Bishop Coyne: People of faith must stand together opposed to HHS mandate
Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administrator, joins more than 160 other Catholic bishops in the United States and issues a statement on the recent contraceptive mandate from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He writes that the decision is "one that challenges the rights of all people of faith to live their lives according to the beliefs and dictates of that faith. I stand with my brother bishops across the United States as absolutely opposed to this mandate." (Page 1)
Read more from the statement
Downtown parish welcomes thousands of Super Bowl visitors
Thousands of people filled Capitol Avenue and Georgia Street around St. John the Evangelist Parish in Indianapolis on Feb. 3, two days before the playing of Super Bowl XLVI in Lucas Oil Stadium, just down the street from the historic faith community. Pedestrian traffic sometimes came to a standstill while riders of an 800-foot zip line zoomed overhead and filled the air with screams of excitement. With the massive front doors of the parish’s 140-year-old church wide open to the crowd outside, a steady stream of visitors made their way inside.
(Page 16)
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Web-only features
Indiana bishops making "ad limina" visit to Pope Benedict XVI
The bishops of Region VII -- which includes all the dioceses of Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin -- are traveling to Rome in mid-February for their ad limina visit with Pope Benedict XVI. Bishop Christopher J. Coyne, apostolic administator, is with them and will take part in a group audience with the pope. On this site, you can not only follow him via his Twitter feed, but also read the reports that he is passing on to the pope about the state of the archdiocese.
Go to our Ad Limino Visit website
National and world news you may have missed...
Here's a sampling of some news stories that ran on our website this past week or so that you may have missed.
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- Federal judicial panel rules California Proposition 8 unconstitutional
- Vanderbilt: No break for religious groups on nondiscrimination policy
- Military chaplains told not to read archbishop's letter on HHS mandate
- Vatican officials say 'corruption' charges by envoy to U.S. are 'unfounded'
- Komen reverses decision, reinstates grants to Planned Parenthood
- Rich-poor gap talk less relevant to agencies than caring for the poor
- Creating cardinals: Ceremony features something old, new, borrowed, red
- US court drops suit state insurance officials brought against Vatican
- Innovation becomes tradition: 2011's top 10 films, best family films
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