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...sleepy parish of Ballyclare and Ballygowan, in rural Northern Ireland, 40 parishioners sit silently in the Church of the Holy Family. Shortly after 9 a.m., the sanctuary doors open, light floods the modest building and Father Eugene O'Hagan glides down the aisle in a white cassock, singing, "In my justice I shall see your face, O Lord...
...access to medical care for millions of Mexicans who had been previously uninsured.Despite his popularity, Frenk later ran into resistance when he ordered the distribution of the "morning-after" pill to government health clinics under the direction of the health ministry. The move was attacked fiercely by the Catholic Church and anti-abortion activists, though praised by women's groups...
...many liberal Catholics, July 25, 1968, was the day the music died. Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humanae Vitae, published 40 years ago today, reaffirmed Catholicism's absolute ban on birth control. Coming on the heels of the Second Vatican Council's unprecedented opening of the Church to modernity three years earlier, the Vatican's decision to stand by a doctrine that ever fewer Catholics were obeying would reverberate far beyond the bedroom...
...Progressives saw the encyclical as the ultimate proof that the Church was bound to remain out of touch with contemporary reality. Traditionalists, instead, can mark it as the beginning of their return to favor, when the Vatican undertook to stand firm against the forces of secularism blowing through the West - and within the Church itself. Today, the traditionalists clearly have a Pope after their own hearts in Benedict XVI. But he's not one to take their positions for granted...
...detective who deals with FLDS issues, compares the sect's structure to feudal Europe, when daughters served as pawns in alliances. "If your father-in-law is prominent, this helps with business dealings - maybe you have another wife and then you have daughters that you can place with other church members," Brower says. "The circle goes around - the more business dealings, the more wives, the more daughters, the more business dealings, and it goes...