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January 19, 2012

Parents in USCCB-commissioned poll express concern over media content

WASHINGTON – Parents are concerned about the content of the media to which their children are exposed and are eager to exert more control over that exposure.
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Deep poverty can be reversed, Catholic Charities USA president says

CLEVELAND – One-time industrial powerhouses such as Cleveland that have been hit hard by a long-term economic downturn can still see significant declines in poverty as long as appropriate measures are enacted by the federal government, the president of Catholic Charities USA said.
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UM to lead stem cell research that has Vatican support

The University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore will lead international adult stem-cell research that has the support of the Vatican.
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Priests must side with abuse victims, says seminarian in Vatican paper

VATICAN CITY - To emerge from the sex abuse crisis, priests must make it clear that they are on the side of truth and the victims of abuse, said an article in the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.
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Obama, religious leaders honor West Virginia miners at memorial service

BECKLEY, W.Va. – President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston and other dignitaries and religious leaders gathered with thousands from West Virginia April 25 to pay tribute to the 29 miners who lost their lives in the explosion at Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal.
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Archbishop O’Brien: Nuclear disarmament will take ‘courage’

WASHINGTON – Everyone on the panel at The Catholic University of America to discuss “The Ethics of the Obama Administration’s Nuclear Weapons Policy: Catholic Perspectives” seemed to indicate that the eventual elimination of nuclear arms is a goal.
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City aids and abets Planned Parenthood deception

Amen Archbishop O’Brien! Your column (CR, April 15) headlined “Bait and Switch” hit a bull’s-eye, pointing out the cynical deception of the life-affirming series of photos in the Howard Street windows of Planned Parenthood, Maryland’s largest abortion provider. Planned Parenthood also successfully pressured the Baltimore City Council and Mayor Rawlings-Blake to pass an ordinance requiring...
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Legislators hide behind flawed process

The Catholic Review (April 15 and 22) has discussed the defeat of the BOAST bill in the Annapolis legislature; it would have benefited non-public school children. The bill was never voted on by the entire House of Delegates, but was killed in committee.
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Report: Pope to create Vatican department for ‘new evangelization’

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI is planning to create a Roman Curia department charged with overseeing the “re-evangelization” of traditionally Christian countries, an Italian newspaper reported.
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MDDC recognizes Review campaign

LINTHICUM –The Catholic Review’s gun buy-back campaign took a pair of first-place honors at the Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association annual awards convention.
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Youth ministers humbly acknowledge archdiocesan awards

When staff members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry put calls out to people they wanted to honor at its annual recognition celebration April 22, the responses were universally humble.
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Britain apologizes to Vatican for memo proposing ‘Benedict condoms’

LONDON – The British government has apologized to the Vatican for an official memo that proposed the launch of “Benedict condoms” and the opening of an abortion clinic as part of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to Britain.
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