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January 19, 2012

Liturgist drops speaking engagements over missal translation process

WASHINGTON – Saying that he “cannot promote the new missal translation with integrity,” the former chairman of the music committee of the International Commission on English in the Liturgy has withdrawn from all speaking engagements related to the missal.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop Madden has moving visit to Rwanda

In meeting with survivors of the Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda, Bishop Denis J. Madden was struck by the inner turmoil endured by so many in the years following the conflict.

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January 19, 2012

Illinois bishops say new civil union law could harm religious freedom

CHICAGO – Illinois’ new law legalizing civil unions and giving them the same status as marriages in the state has the “potential for a serious conflict with religious liberty,” according to the state’s Catholic bishops.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop Malooly hopes settlement brings healing to survivors, renewal to church

WILMINGTON, Del. – Bishop W. Francis Malooly said he hopes and prays that the Diocese of Wilmington’s recent settlement with survivors of clergy sexual abuse will begin the healing process for survivors and help the church “emerge purified and renewed.”

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January 19, 2012

Letter unveils parish changes in East Baltimore

The following letter was read at Feb. 5-6 Masses at the Catholic Community of St. Michael and St. Patrick in Fells Point, Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown and Our Lady of Pompei in Highlandtown. It concerns the future of those parishes, Hispanic ministry in the area and Archbishop Borders School in Highlandtown.

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January 19, 2012

Religious coalition objects to upcoming hearings on Muslim extremism

WASHINGTON – A coalition of 51 religious and civil rights groups in the United States are urging congressional leaders to stop upcoming House hearings on Muslim extremism or at least focus the inquiry more broadly by examining violence “motivated by extremist beliefs in all its forms.”

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January 19, 2012

Obama, astronaut, Chilean mine survivor talk about prayer during crises

WASHINGTON – It is his faith in God, particularly “that biblical injunction to serve the least of these, that keeps me going and that keeps me from being overwhelmed,” by the challenges of his office, President Barack Obama said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 3.

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January 19, 2012

Liberation theology nearly drove Brazilian archbishop from church

VATICAN CITY – The Brazilian archbishop who now heads the congregation for religious said he almost abandoned the seminary and the Catholic Church because of the ideological excesses that emerged in the early years of liberation theology.

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January 19, 2012

Church hasn’t lost generation in their 20s, conference speakers say

NEW YORK – Catholic young adults aren’t as attached to the church as their counterparts from the 1940s and 1950s, but they are hardly a lost generation and have not abandoned the faith, according to speakers at a two-day forum at Jesuit-run Fordham University.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop urges Catholic college leaders to renew, strengthen mission

WASHINGTON – In an address to Catholic college and university presidents Jan. 29 in Washington, Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., praised them for making “Christ’s mission come alive and flourish” and challenged them to renew and strengthen their mission using guidelines established by the 1990 Vatican document on Catholic higher education.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican plans conference, pastoral guidelines on AIDS care

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican will host international scientists at a conference on AIDS in late May, an encounter church officials hope will help clarify Pope Benedict XVI’s recent comments on condom use in AIDS prevention, a Vatican official said.

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January 19, 2012

‘Singing-nun records’ planted seed for Catholic children’s music artist

WASHINGTON – Don’t look now, but Soeur Sourire and others like her are getting their due from Catholic children’s music artist Jim Cosgrove.

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