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January 19, 2012

Faith-based investors to apply ‘green’ index in investment decisions

WASHINGTON – The Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility said Feb. 5 it would use an index measuring how “green” publicly traded corporations are to help it make investment decisions and push for more eco-friendly business practices.

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January 19, 2012

Lifting statute of limitations ‘unfair,’ Catholic leaders say

While acknowledging the pain endured through child sexual abuse, Catholic leaders urged lawmakers Feb. 5 to reject a bill that would significantly extend the time period when victims can file civil lawsuits in Maryland.

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January 19, 2012

Remembering the Holocaust: A scientific fact, a religious obligation

VATICAN CITY – Acknowledging and remembering the Holocaust is not only a matter of historical honesty; it is a religious obligation, especially for bishops, several Vatican officials said.

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January 19, 2012

Catholics, Muslims begin to value how much they share across faiths

WASHINGTON – In the days following the Sept. 11 attacks, Dalila Benameur and her Muslim friends in Bridgeview, Ill., were afraid to leave their homes even when their pantries ran low and their refrigerators emptied. The women felt threatened by the handful of intimidating drivers who would cruise past the town’s mosque waving Confederate flags...

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January 19, 2012

Measures promoting human dignity top concern for Catholic advocates

WASHINGTON – Promoting Catholic social teaching to politicians at the White House and in Congress is like riding a teeter-totter: first up and then down. The direction depends on the issue being debated and the party in power.

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January 19, 2012

Ministry supports couples facing troubled pregnancies

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Cubby LaHood will never forget the news her doctor told her 20 years ago.

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January 19, 2012

Obama, Blair talk about the roots of their faith, its influence

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair struck similar themes in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 5, telling of their own faith roots and noting that the world’s major religions all hold a core doctrine of caring for others.

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January 19, 2012

Actor Liam Neeson records Way of the Cross for CD project

DENVER – Actor Liam Neeson, whose latest film “Taken” was the top box-office draw in the United States the first weekend of its release Jan. 30-Feb. 1, has narrated a version of the Way of the Cross written by St. Alphonsus Liguori.

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January 19, 2012

College students, teachers try to right business wrongs

Andrew Velazquez sounds disillusioned. He yearns for the days when businesses took responsibility for their decision-making and were accountable to their customers, community and country.

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January 19, 2012

Walking into Catholicism

The center of the Catholic Church surrounded Lisa Russell.

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January 19, 2012

Obama orders faith-based office be reworked, its scope expanded

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama created by executive order Feb. 5 a White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships, which will expand upon and rework the Bush administration’s Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican names two new archbishops for Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Victor Sanchez Espinosa of Mexico City as the new archbishop of Puebla, one of the oldest archdioceses in the country.

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