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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

Mexican church officials say drug cartels recruit vulnerable youths

MEXICO CITY – The executions of 18 young men during a prayer service at a Mexican drug rehabilitation center Sept. 2 failed to surprise many church and public safety officials, who say Mexico’s drug cartels increasingly are luring vulnerable youths into lives of addiction and crime.
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January 19, 2012

St. Matthew, St. Thomas More center celebrates 20 years

Two years into her job as an administrative assistant in the program, Susan Keating couldn’t imagine becoming the director of The Saints Matthew and Thomas More Religious Education and Youth Ministry Center.
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January 19, 2012

Legionaries’ letter to lay members details reforms order has made

WASHINGTON –The Legionaries of Christ have initiated a number of reforms since publicly acknowledging Feb. 4 that the order’s founder, Mexican Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, fathered a child, two U.S. Legionaries priests said in a letter to members of the order’s lay association, Regnum Christi.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese prepares for flu pandemic

Between fasting and holy water, churchgoers in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may want to add another item to their Mass ritual: the liberal use of a hand sanitizer.
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January 19, 2012

Legislation requires due diligence

The Aug. 20 issue contains two items that are strongly connected. Columnist Russell Shaw draws attention to the error of religious groups taking position on matters they don’t know enough about. Environmental activists have frequently been successful in getting church leaders to sign on publicly to the positions for which they are lobbying. By adhering...
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January 19, 2012

Bishops urge united Catholic voice on key elements of health reform

WASHINGTON – Sounding many of the same themes, bishops around the country are urging Catholics to contact their members of Congress about the need for health care reform and the importance of keeping abortion out of any final plan.
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January 19, 2012

War of words: Berlusconi, Boffo, beauties and bishops

VATICAN CITY – An unusually acrimonious fight has erupted this summer between the Vatican and the government of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, fueled by growing unease over Berlusconi’s personal life and some of his government’s policies.
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January 19, 2012

‘He’s still with us’ in spirit, says woman who lost husband on 9/11

WESTFIELD, N.J. – The phone rang. Diane Starita held her breath and sank to the floor at her home in Westfield.
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January 19, 2012

Pope John Paul II built strong Catholic-Jewish ties, priest says

ROCHESTER, N.Y. – While the groundwork for improving Catholic-Jewish relations was laid out in the Second Vatican Council document “Nostra Aetate,” Pope John Paul II showed Catholics how to carry out the intentions of the document’s authors, said a priest who serves as a consultant on ecumenical and interreligious affairs to the U.S. Conference of...
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January 19, 2012

Taiwanese cardinal, Dalai Lama discuss erosion of moral values

KAOHSIUNG, Taiwan – The erosion of moral values and materialism have caused distrust among people and damaged relationships in society, Cardinal Paul Shan Kuo-his and the Dalai Lama said during a Sept. 2 meeting in Taiwan.
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January 19, 2012

Bishops’ annual Labor Day statement focuses on health reform debate

WASHINGTON – It is possible to bring Catholic values to the ongoing debate over health care reform just as it was done earlier this year in forging a four-way agreement on the potential unionization of workers at Catholic hospitals, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic parish joins Muslim students to help after Indonesian quake

TASIKMALAYA, Indonesia – A Catholic parish in the predominantly Muslim Indonesian province of West Java is working to provide emergency aid to victims of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck Sept. 2.
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