MI Catholic Conference - http://www.micatholicconference.org

Michigan Catholic Conference leads effort to promote adult stem cell research, and condemn those who would kill and/or clone embryos in the name of research.  The Science of Stem Cells: Finding Cures and Protecting Life Action Alert: Your phone calls needed to save Tax Credit for working poor Lansing Update: Chronicles Legislative Activity On the Stem Cell Research Executive Order

 

 

Vatican - http://www.vatican.va/

Papal encyclical: Caritas In Veritate Remission of Excommunication of Lefebvre Bishops Pope Proclaims Year Devoted to St. Paul Pope Benedict's new encyclical: Spe Salvi (Saved by Hope) Vatican Document Released on Church Doctrine

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Thousands of local Catholics took the opportunity to venerate the relic of St. Damien at Blessed Sacrament Cathedral in Detroit in mid-October. This past weekend, the relic was received back at the Diocese of Honolulu.

 

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In his latest encyclical, which was released July 7, Pope Benedict XVI urgest the faithful to make a connection between charity and truth, and says that moral values are needed in the face of the current global economic crisis.