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WATERTOWN, MA (February 29, 2012) -- The CatholicTV® Network and Roku announced that the two companies have officially launched CatholicTV on the Roku streaming platform. With CatholicTV on Roku, viewers across the nation will be able to instantly access the CatholicTV LIVE video stream and many CatholicTV shows for free beginning today.

We continue to pray for the successful resolution to the question of whether Catholic institutions will be required to provide coverage for morally objectionable services through their health plans.

(Braintree, Mass.) February 12, 2012…The Archdiocese of Boston today announced that it has placed Rev. James E Braley on administrative leave as a result of receiving an allegation of sexual abuse of a child. Fr. Braley is the Pastor of Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Plymouth. The allegation concerns conduct alleged to have occurred in the early 1980s.

Braintree, MA – The Archdiocese of Boston announced today a parish based education campaign to inform our Catholic community on the issues involved with doctor-prescribed suicide.  This weekend, parishioners will have the opportunity to listen to a previously recorded homily by Cardinal Seán O’Malley on a November 2012 ballot initiative that would allow physician-assisted suicide in Massachusetts.  Should the law pass, Massachusetts will become only the third state in the United States to allow doctors to write lethal prescriptions for the terminally ill at the patient’s request; the other states being Oregon and Washington.  The teaching of the Church regarding the human dignity of all people would be undermined by such a measure.

WASHINGTON— The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) sees initial opportunities in preserving the principle of religious freedom after President Obama’s announcement today. But the Conference continues to express concerns. “While there may be an openness to respond to some of our concerns, we reserve judgment on the details until we have them,” said Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan, president of USCCB.