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Missouri diocese to drop CCHD funding for community organizers
The Diocese of Kansas City, Missouri, has announced plans to stop providing funding for community-organizing groups through the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD). Noting that ...
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Profile of Vatican official who resigned amid criticisms
Vatican-watcher John Allen of the National Catholic Reporter offers a sympathetic profile of Archbishop Agostino Marchetto, the outspoken Vatican official who resigned this week from his ...
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Melkites bridge East and West, Vatican cardinal says
The Melkite Catholic Church should act as a bridge between Eastern and Western Christianity, the prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches said.
Speaking during the Divine ...
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Archbishop begs for calm as rioting ebbs in Mozambique
The capital city of Mozambique is "slowly returning to calm" after riots that left 7 people dead and nearly 300 injured, the Fides news service reports. Archbishop Francisco Chimoio of ...
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Detroit archbishop to bless memorial to aborted children
Archbishop Allen Vigneron will preside at a ceremony on September 4 to bless a memorial to the unborn children whose bodies were discovered in a dumpster outside an abortion clinic in ...
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English archbishop unshaken by criticism in advance of papal visit
England's leading Catholic prelate expects heavy criticism of the Church in advance of the visit by Pope Benedict XVI, but believes that the Pope's presence will produce a more positive ...
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Boston archdiocese says newly purchased hospital would abide by Catholic policies
Contradicting earlier public statements, the Archdiocese of Boston has announced that a Rhode Island hospital will be required to abide by Catholic moral teachings if it is purchased by ...
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Australian writer sees canonization as an insult to Bl. Mary MacKillop
Opening a new frontier in anti-Catholic journalism, an Australian makes the remarkable charge that the Church will be insulting Mary MacKillop by canonizing her.
The argument is based ...
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Tourist traffic damaging Sistine Chapel, director reports
The 4.5 million people who visit the Sistine Chapel every year are gradually causing damage to Michelangelo's works, the director of the Vatican Museums has warned.
"Humans breathe and ...
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Look beyond conventional secularism, Pope urges in World Youth Day message
In his message of World Youth Day 2011, Pope Benedict XVI tells young people that their ultimate happiness will depend not on their career prospects but on their relationships with Jesus ...
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