Bishop Kagan is the ordinary of Bismarck, North Dakota and is serving as the apostolic administrator of Fargo while the see is vacant. As part of his role, Bishop Kagan issued the letter asking parishioners “to vote as a Catholic citizen with a properly formed Catholic conscience.” Bishop Kagan wrote that the teachings of the [...]

On the eve of what the U.S. Catholic Bishops have called Fortnight for Freedom, over 300 people gathered at San Diego’s historic Mission de Acala to pray and rally for the protection of religious freedom. San Diego’s Coadjuter Bishop, Bishop Cirilo Flores, and president and founder of Catholic Action for Faith and Family, Thomas McKenna, [...]

In this interview by Thomas J. McKenna, Archbishop Joseph Naumann explains why he is disappointed she was nominated to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Your Excellency: As you know the Governor of Kansas, Kathleen Sebelius, is a Catholic with a long record of supporting abortion and has been nominated by President Obama [...]

In a column written for the Diocese of Fargo newspaper, New Earth, Most Rev. Samuel J. Aquila, Bishop of Fargo, congratulated President-elect Barack Obama and said he is praying for him as he prepares to undertake “immense responsibilities” as president of the United States. “One of those prayers,” Bishop Aquila wrote, “will be for the [...]

A clarification for people of the Church in northern Colorado on the personhood of the unborn child For the past several months, Amendment 48 has been a source of confusion for many Catholics and other members of the Colorado prolife community. Catholics are free to support or oppose Amendment 48, commonly known as the “Personhood [...]