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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Closing schools leave lasting impressions

At the conclusion of the current school year, 13 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will close. The Catholic Review pays homage to those schools and their legacies, with capsules of the elementary schools. Six appear this week, and six more appeared in the May 27 issue. An article on The Cardinal Gibbons School...
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January 19, 2012

BP gives $1 million to Archdiocese of New Orleans for oil spill relief

NEW ORLEANS – As millions of gallons of oil from an offshore rig explosion fouled hundreds of square miles in the Gulf of Mexico and advanced toward the Louisiana coastline, New Orleans Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond thanked BP for $1 million in emergency relief funds.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. Jesuit priest to take reins of Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome

WASHINGTON – For Jesuit Father James McCann, it all started with taking a course in the Russian language while in high school.
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January 19, 2012

Papal trip to Cyprus will shine spotlight on Middle East

VATICAN CITY – Just 13 months after he visited the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI will give Christians in the Middle East his full attention again as he visits Cyprus June 4-6.
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January 19, 2012

Coadjutor asks for prayers, pledges ‘life, love’ to Los Angeles church

LOS ANGELES – In a prayerful, moving and colorful ceremony sprinkled with gentle humor and emotion - reflecting the man himself - Archbishop Jose H. Gomez was officially received May 26 as coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles.
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January 19, 2012

Canon law guides church’s response to clergy sexual abuse

WASHINGTON – With roots in the Council of Jerusalem of the first century, canon law is a cumbersome but necessary set of regulations that help church officials govern the Catholic Church on issues as diverse as clergy sexual abuse and the role of baptized people within church structure.
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January 19, 2012

CRS reps say Afghans thirst for education, willing to work hard for it

RADNOR, Pa. – After 30 years of war and repressive rule of the Taliban, today only 28 percent of the people in Afghanistan can read and write and 18 percent of them are women and girls, according to Catholic Relief Services representatives visiting the Philadelphia Archdiocese.
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January 19, 2012

Kingston Catholic leaders: Violence result of dependency, lawlessness

KINGSTON, Jamaica – The violence that shook Jamaica’s capital in late May stems from a combination of economic woes, drugs, corruption and the country’s history of power politics, said church leaders.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican supreme court upholds closing of 10 Boston parishes

WASHINGTON – The Vatican supreme court has denied the appeals of parishioners trying to save 10 parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston from closing, according to a spokesman for a group fighting the closures.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic University president says pope’s 2008 visit ‘greatest day of my life’

WASHINGTON – April 17, 2008, the day Pope Benedict XVI visited the Catholic University of America, was “probably the greatest day of my life,” said Vincentian Father David O’Connell, who will step down Aug. 31 as president after leading the university for the past 12 years.
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January 19, 2012

Employment Non-Discrimination Act seen jeopardizing religious freedom

WASHINGTON – A letter from the chairmen of three committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has stated the bishops’ opposition to the Employment Non-Discrimination Act because of the bill’s potential to “jeopardize our religious freedom to live our faith and moral tenets in today’s society.”
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January 19, 2012

Interfaith coalition introduces new anti-violence projects

Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden looked around at various Baltimore city faith leaders May 27 and envisioned a day when violence wasn’t a way of life.
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