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By Catholic News Service
ORLANDO, Fla. – About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group.
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Monsignor Georg Ratzinger, the brother of Pope Benedict XVI, prays during a 2006 visit to the the Old Chapel in Regensburg, Germany. The German priest apologized to former students who were molested by clergy in the 1950s at the school that trains the elite boys’ choir of the Regensburg Cathedral. (CNS photo/Maurizio Brambatti, pool via Reuters)
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
WARSAW, Poland – The brother of Pope Benedict XVI apologized to child victims of sexual abuse at his former school even though he said he was unaware of the alleged incidents.
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By Deborah Gyapong
Catholic News Service
KINGSTON, Ontario – Groups of Anglicans entering into communion with the Catholic Church will not absorbed the way “a teaspoon of sugar would be lost in a gallon of coffee,” said Cardinal William Levada, prefect for the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Students gather outside the Louverture Cleary School near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 2, during a visit by Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley of Boston and a small group of a U.S. bishops who were assessing damages following the Jan. 12 earthquake. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy)
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By Tom Tracy
Catholic News Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Colonb Mitsuka was on a playground at Louverture Cleary School when the massive magnitude 7 earthquake shook Haiti Jan. 12, causing a cinder block to fall on her, significantly injuring her face.
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By Nancy Frazier O'Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON (CNS) – When San Francisco passed an ordinance more than 13 years ago requiring agencies that contract with the city to provide spousal benefits to employees' domestic partners, then-Archbishop William J. Levada asked for a religious exemption, arguing that it imposed "an unconstitutional condition" on religiously affiliated organizations such as Catholic Charities.
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By Catholic News Service
BHUBANESWAR, India – The Catholic Church in Orissa offered support to villagers fighting a Korean steel giant that they say threatens to displace thousands of people with its planned $12 billion development project in eastern India.
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Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva and Mexico’s President Felipe Calderon attend a news conference during the summit of leaders from Latin American and Caribbean countries in Cancun, Mexico, Feb. 23. CNS photo/Daniel Aguilar, Reuters)
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By David Agren
Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY – Simon Bolivar, known as the Liberator of the Americas, dreamed of a united Latin America, stretching from the Northern Mexico to Tierra del Fuego. He is credited with winning independence of at least five South American countries in the early 1800s. And he remains revered in those countries and much of Latin America – especially in Bolivia, which is named for him, and Venezuela, where president Hugo Chavez rechristened the country, “The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
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Deacon John Burns, a seminarian from the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, center, attends a theological conference on priestly celibacy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome March 4. Burns and several other seminarians from the Pontifical North American College attended the two-day conference. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Exceptions to celibacy for priests in the Roman Catholic Church can be puzzling, including for young priests enthusiastic about their vocation.
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By Bronwen Dachs
Catholic News Service
CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar has asked Catholic universities in Africa to come up with ways that the church can meet the continent’s “formidable challenges,” said a member of the symposium’s standing committee.
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A crucifix stands amid debris as people search for salvageable items March 3 after a major earthquake and ensuing tsunami in Llolleo, Chile. The magnitude 8.8 quake that struck central Chile early Feb. 27 left nearly 800 people dead and tens of thousands homeless. (CNS photo/Eliseo Fernandez, Reuters)
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By Barbara J. Fraser
Catholic News Service
LIMA, Peru – Cleanup is beginning in towns on Chile’s central coast as electricity and telephone service is slowly restored and people try to rebuild their lives after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake killed nearly 800 people and caused millions of dollars in damage.
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By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The statewide Diocese of Burlington, Vt., is preparing to sell its headquarters building and a now-closed camp to help pay for claims and judgments stemming from clerical sexual abuse.
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – U.S. bishops have called on the Senate to support the extension of favorable trade status for Haitian-made garments.
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace has asked the Obama administration to ensure that the Iraqi government takes steps to protect minorities, especially Christians, in the embattled country.
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Boston Cardinal Sean P. O’Malley, center, and members of a U.S. bishops’ delegation to Haiti pray March 2 inside the destroyed Our Lady of Assumption Catherdral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. With the cardinal are Auxiliary Bishop Guy Sansaricq of Brooklyn, N .Y., front left, Archbishop Bernardito Auza, papal nuncio to Haiti, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio, Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Lafontant, apostolic administrator of the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince, and Father Andrew Small, director of the U.S. bi shops’ Church in Latin America office. (CNS photo/Tom Tracy)
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By Tom Tracy
Catholic News Service
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Walking around the massive tent city at the Petionville Club March 2, Archbishop Jose H. Gomez of San Antonio wondered what will become of the thousands of Haitians left homeless by the Jan. 12 earthquake.
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By Anna Weaver
Catholic News Service
HONOLULU – While the large tsunami waves predicted to hit Hawaiian coastlines Feb. 27 turned out to be much smaller and left no damage, local Catholics took the threat seriously.
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A member of the Rajko Orchestra, made up of Hungarian Gypsy musicians, plays “Ave Maria” on the violin during a concert in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere in Rome March 2. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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By Joeun Lee
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Undoubtedly the most discriminated minority group in Europe, the Gypsies experience the impact of firmly rooted stereotypes every day, said a Vatican official.
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By Mark Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese has told staff members that a new same-sex marriage law in the District of Columbia has forced the agency to make changes to its health care coverage for spouses of employees.
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Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., delivers a homily during the Rite of Election at St. Anne Church in Brentwood, N.Y., Feb. 21. In a letter to Catholics, he said employee buyouts and other cost-saving measures are needed to ensure vital ity of diocesan ministries well into future. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz, Long Island Catholic)
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By Catholic News Service
ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – To “ensure the financial health” of the Rockville Centre Diocese for the future, the diocese has put in place a strategy to meet a number of fiscal challenges, said Bishop William F. Murphy.
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Anti-religious commentary distributed by media outlets can create tensions and incite violence and therefore must be rejected, said Vatican and Muslim representatives.
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Residents have breakfast after sleeping in a public garden in fear of aftershocks following a major earthquake in Santiago, Chile, Feb. 28. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake, one of the biggest in centuries, struck Chile Feb. 27, killing at least 700 people and destroyed or badly damaged 500,000 homes. (CNS photo/Marco Fredes, Reuters)
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By Barbara J. Fraser
Catholic News Service
LIMA, Peru – As Chile’s Catholic Church coordinated aid to victims of the massive earthquake that struck the country’s central coast on Feb. 27, church leaders expressed their condolences to families of the more than 700 people killed.
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Residents inspect a highway cracked open by a major earthquake, near the epicenter in Pelluhue, Chile, Feb. 28. A magnitude 8.8 earthquake, one of the biggest in centuries, struck Chile Feb. 27, killing at least 700 people and destroyed or badly damaged 500,000 homes. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)
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By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI prayed for the victims of the massive earthquake in Chile and pledged the assistance of Catholic relief organizations.
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON –- Researchers are working on an in-depth study of Catholic parish life in the United States.
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Seminarians from the Pontifical North American College cheer their soccer team during its season opener against Brazil in the Clericus Cup in Rome Feb. 20. The U.S. won the match 5-4 in a shootout. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – It was a weekend of hard-earned wins for Team USA.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – Germany’s Catholic bishops have asked forgiveness from victims of sexual abuse at church-run schools and promised to “learn lessons” from secular institutions dealing with child molestation.
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Capuchin Father James Stump visits with Valentino Juanitas, a patient in early December in the acute-care ward at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in Palo Alto, Calif. Father Stump said he makes his rounds with one purpose in mind: to invite sick and wounded veterans to encounter the living Christ. (CNS photo/Jose Luis Aguirre, Catholic San Francisco)
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By Rick DelVecchio
Catholic News Service
PALO ALTO, Calif. – To watch Capuchin Father James Stump at work is to see a Christ-centered “ministry of presence” in action as a daily routine.
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By Simon Caldwell
Catholic News Service
LONDON – The Catholic bishops of England and Wales welcomed new guidelines governing prosecutions in assisted suicide cases, saying that the most vulnerable people are better protected under the revisions.
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By Catholic News Service
TOKYO – Bishops from Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on world leaders to work toward the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
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A worker finishes the landscaping at the Visitation Clinic in Petite Riviere de Nippes, Haiti, in 2008. The clinic, built and operated by the Visitation Hospital Foundation, based in Nashville, Tenn., is still standing and continues to care for patients since the quake hit Haiti. (CNS photo/Andy Telli, Tennessee Register)
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By Theresa Laurence
Catholic News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A Haiti clinic built and operated by a Nashville-based nonprofit foundation sustained some cracks in the Jan. 12 earthquake and the aftershocks that followed, but it has remained open and the staff continues to treat patients.
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Blessed Andre Bessette, a member of the Holy Cross Brothers and founder of St. Joseph’s Oratory of Mount Royal in Montreal, is pictured in an undated photo from the archives of the oratory. He will be canonized Oct. 17, becoming the first saint of the Holy Cross Brothers. He is known for his intense piety, miraculous cures and for his dedication to the building of the shrine honoring St. Joseph. (CNS photo/archives of St. Joseph’s Oratory)
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By Carolyn Girard
Catholic News Service
MONTREAL – Just 73 years after his death, Brother Andre Bessette will become the first Canadian-born man elevated to sainthood.
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U.S. President Barack Obama holds a bipartisan meeting to discuss health reform legislation at Blair House in Washington Feb. 25. With Obama are Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and House Minority Leader John Boehner of Ohio. (CNS photo/Jason Reed, Reuters)
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – As Democratic and Republican leaders gathered in Washington for a health care summit convened by President Barack Obama, the U.S. bishops and other Catholic leaders urged all parties to commit themselves to health care reform that is affordable, accessible and protects the life and dignity of every person.
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