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Catholic bishops silent on private insurance and abortion

By | 09.21.09 | 12:15 pm

Catholic leadership has worked to block health care reform mostly by arguing that Democratic plans fail to guard against public funding for abortions. Money paid into a government plan would be “fungible,” argued Cardinal Justin Rigali (pdf), chairman of…

Wary of abortion funding, Denver Archbishop supports health reform

By | 08.17.09 | 1:40 pm

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, no friend to President Obama, published a column last week restating the larger Catholic Bishops’ stance on health reform. For Chaput and his fellow bishops, avoiding all government coverage of abortion is an expected…

Denver Archbishop Chaput welcomed discontented Legionaries

By | 08.04.09 | 8:30 am

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput, head of the North American Vatican investigation into the secretive Legionaries of Christ Catholic order, has long been familiar with negative allegations concerning the order and its leader Father Marcial Maciel Degollado. Some ten years…

Denver Archbishop Chaput investigating vast sex-and-money Church scandal

By | 07.29.09 | 8:00 am

Denver Archbishop Charles Chaput will be traveling this week and next and maybe into the fall. He has been asked by the Pope to look into the sex and money crimes of an extremely influential Mexican colleague, Rev. Marcial Maciel…

Afternoon News Nuggets: 14 July 2009

By | 07.14.09 | 4:22 pm

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TESTIFIED: Not all parties were equal among those called to weigh in at the state’s Interim Committee on Fiscal Stability last week. Carol Hedges, senior analyst at the Colorado Fiscal Policy Institute, articulated a