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Obama awards America’s highest military honour to Catholic chaplain

Obama holds a pocket stole that belonged to Fr Emil Kapaun (Photo: CNS)

Obama calls Fr Emil Kapaun a ‘shepherd in combat boots’ who came from the greatest generation of Americans

Three US states approve laws allowing same-sex marriage

A poster outside a Catholic church in Maryland (Photo: CNS)

Six states have already legalised same-sex marriage, while 30 states have passed laws prohibiting it

US ordinariate to be created on January 1, says cardinal

Cardinal Wuerl, Vatican delegate for the US ordinariate (Photo: CNS)

Cardinal Wuerl says 67 Episcopal priests have submitted dossiers seeking ordination in the Catholic Church

Archbishop Chaput appointed to Philadelphia

Archbishop Chaput at the press conference yesterday (CNS photo/Tim Shaffer, Reuters)

Archbishop Charles Chaput, who is regarded as orthodox and outspoken, is appointed to one of America’s biggest dioceses

Archbishop Dolan ‘surprised’ by his election as president of US bishops

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York at the US bishops' meeting in Baltimore today (Photo: CNS)

Archbishop of New York says he does not know why bishops departed from tradition to elect him rather than the current vice president