Column of the Day: Terrorist Rehabilitation 101

Considering their questionable success rates, can terrorist rehabilitation programs be trusted to protect the public? Read More

Haitian Church Rising out of the Ruins

More than three weeks after the quake, the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince has begun rebuilding the Catholic church in Haiti, one of the country's hardest-hit institutions.
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Pope: Separate Catholic Schools Help Combat Sectarianism

Pope Benedict addressed the bishops of Scotland during their 'ad limina' visit on Friday confirming his travels to Scotland during his state visit to Britain. He also took the opportunity to launch a defence of separate Catholic schooling in Scotland and condemn the country's highly debated "assisted dying Bill." Read More

Obama to Invite GOP to Healthcare Summit

In a bid to revive the healthcare overhaul, President Obama announced that he would convene a televised bipartisan summit in which Republicans and Democrats would try to forge a compromise. Read More

Vatican Official says Religious Orders are in Modern Crisis

Cardinal Franc Rode, who is overseeing an apostolic visitation of institutes for women religious in the US, says religious orders are in a "crisis" caused by the adoption of a secularist mentality and the abandonment of traditional practices. Read More

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Podcasts

"The World Over" with Raymond Arroyo
EWTN host Raymond Arroyo interviews Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and Kristen Day of Democrats for Life on health reform. Arroyo's third guest is Father Thomas Berg of the Westchester Institute for Ethics and the Human Person, talking on recent bioethics controversies and the Vatican investigation of his former order, the Legionaries of Christ.

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Catholic Radio Weekly
This week's podcast from the U.S. bishops conference features an analysis by John Carr on Caritas in Veritate, as well as news reports on the NIH and embryonic stem cell research and the Vatican's relationship with the SSPX.

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Vatican Insider
EWTN correspondant Joan Lewis covers the week's news in the Vatican and the Church around the world.

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