Religion & Law

Paper Begins Series on the Catholic Church In Cuba
Yesterday's National Catholic Register carries the first in a three-part series on the Catholic Church in Cuba. The Church is the only national institution that functions independently of the government...

CATHOLIC CHURCH, WHITE HOUSE PLANNING TO AIRLIFT ORPHANS FROM HAITI
In the early 1960s, President Eisenhower worked with the Catholic Church to airlift 14,000+ unaccompanied minors from Cuba to America in an effort called Operation Pedro Pan. In a similar effort, President Obama is working with the Catholic Church to possibly airlift thousands of orphans from Haiti and allow them to remain in the US in a humanitarian parole status...

As Castro Resigns, His Relationship With Catholic Church Is Profiled
As Cuban leader Fidel Castro last night announced that he is retiring, Catholic News Service reviews his "often stormy relationship" with Cuba's Catholic Church. Catholics initially supported the Jesuit-educated Castro's revolution...

CUBA NEWS: Spain and the Catholic Church negotiate forced exile for political prisoners.
CUBA NEWS: Spain and the Catholic Church negotiate forced exile for political prisoners.

Cuban Cardinal Will Give Christmas Message On State TV
AP reported yesterday on a new sign of the improving relationship between the government of Cuba and the Catholic Church. For the second year in a row, Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega will read a Christmas message on state television...

Catholic Voters Differ on How to Apply Church's Teachings on Abortion & Other Issues
NY Times: Catholic Church Is Riven by Internal Debate, by David D. Kirkpatrick: As the Roman Catholic Church observes its annual ?respect life? Sunday in this heated presidential election season, the unusually pitched competition for Catholic voters is setting off...

Roman Catholic Church
Diocese of Antigonish faces class action over abuse by a priest

The Bay Presbyterian Church
$700,000 settlement reached in church split case.

Kansas Catholic Diocese

Catholic Archdiocese
Will Pay $12.6 Million in Sexual Abuse Settlements

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Louis
Settlement Reached in Six Sexual Abuse Suits