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By Ana Rodriguez-Soto
Catholic News Service
MIAMI – People who look after the church’s money say they are worried but not panicked about the nation’s current financial woes.
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Members of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul carry banners of their local councils and parish conferences as they walk to the Cathedral of the Assumption for a Sept. 27 Mass during their national meeting in Louisville, Ky. Members of the Louisville Pipe Band are also pictured. (CNS photo/Joseph Duerr, Record)
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By Marnie McAllister
Catholic News Service
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – For more and more people, the American dream isn’t turning out the way it was envisioned, said Cathy Hinko, executive director of the Metropolitan Housing Coalition in Louisville.
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By David Agren
Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY – Catholic Church officials in Mexico have called for changes in public attitudes toward crime and corruption as well as the tactics being employed in the Mexican government’s war on narcotics-trafficking cartels.
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Precious Blood Sister Janice Bader, director of the National Religious Retirement Office, is pictured in a 2007 file photo in Washington. The slide in Wall Street stocks triggered by the federal takeover of mortgage banks and finance houses in September should not pose a problem for religious orders, including those with large numbers or percentages of retired members, according to Sister Bader. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The slide in Wall Street stocks triggered by the federal takeover of mortgage banks and finance houses in September should not pose a problem for religious orders, including those with large numbers or percentages of retired members, according to the head of the National Religious Retirement Office.
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U.S. Sister Margherita Marchione, a member of the Religious Teachers Filippini, displays one of several books she has written about Pope Pius XII. She has spent the past decade gathering eyewitness evidence and concrete documentation showing claims Pope Pius did little or nothing to save the Jews from Nazi atrocities are based on ignorance, error or outright lies. She said she believes the wartime pontiff may soon be declared venerable by Pope Benedict XVI. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz)
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Nearly 50 years after the death of Pope Pius XII, one of his strongest supporters thinks the beatification of this controversial wartime pontiff may be just around the corner.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Inviting a Jewish scholar to address the world Synod of Bishops on the Bible was logical given the role of the Scriptures in Jewish life, said the head of the synod office.
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Traders talk on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange Sept. 30. (CNS photo/Lucas Jackson, Reuters)
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By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – To those entrusted with husbanding the financial portfolios of Catholic foundations and institutions, the Sept. 29 rejection by the U.S. House of a $700 billion package to shore up the nation’s financial systems posed new concerns about the economy and those charged with overseeing it.
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CNS photo/Barretstown
Actor Paul Newman poses with children at the Barretstown camp he founded outside Dublin, Ireland, in this September 2004 photo. Newman died Sept. 26 at the age of 83 of cancer. He founded Hole in the Wall camps, including Barretstown, for children with cancer and other life- threatening diseases.
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By Cian Molloy
Catholic News Service
DUBLIN, Ireland – A Hole in the Wall Camp founded by the late actor Paul Newman helps sick children get their childhoods back, said a New York Catholic working there as a volunteer.
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CNS photo/Erik Noriega, Texas Catholic Herald
Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston greets Massgoers Sept. 28 after celebrating the first Mass on Galveston Island after Hurricane Ike hit Sept. 13. The Mass was at St. Patrick Church, which was in relatively good shape, although the rectory and old school building were both completely inundated by the storm surge. Last century the church withstood the great storm of 1900.
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By Erik Noreiga and Jonah Dycus
Catholic News Service
GALVESTON, Texas – An hour prior to Mass, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston was walking around the grounds of St. Patrick Church, taking time to speak with those who showed up early for the first Mass on Galveston Island since it was battered by Hurricane Ike Sept. 13.
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By Catholic News Service
CHICAGO – A new book by constitutional scholar Paul Benjamin Linton assesses the legal status of abortion in each of the 50 states, concluding that more than half the abortions performed in the U.S. would remain “constitutionally protected” if Roe v. Wade were overturned.
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