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By Lise Alves
Catholic News Service
SAO PAULO – Ten years ago, workers escaping brutal working conditions in Brazil’s Amazon region had only one place they could turn to for help: the Pastoral Land Commission of the Brazilian bishops’ conference.
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Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo prays with a group of Catholic priests and sprinkles holy water in Luneta Park in Manila, Phillipines, Aug. 31. The prelates celebrated a traditional ninth-day Mass for victims of the Aug. 23 tourist bus hostage crisis. (CNS photo/Romeo Ranoco, Reuters)
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MANILA, Philippines – Auxiliary Bishop Broderick Pabillo of Manila led hundreds of people from various faiths in prayer at the site of a hostage incident that left nine people, mostly Chinese tourists, dead.
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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace joined 27 other Christian leaders in welcoming the renewal of direct peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders brokered by the United States.
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F. DeKarlos Blackmon, 34, of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected the youngest supreme knight and CEO in the history of the century-old Knights of Peter Claver. He is pictured in an undated photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Knights of Peter Claver)
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NEW ORLEANS – F. DeKarlos Blackmon, 34, of Huntsville, Ala., has been elected the youngest supreme knight and CEO in the history of the century-old Knights of Peter Claver.
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By David Agren
Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY – As Mexico began bicentennial celebrations of its independence from Spain, the Mexican bishops’ conference issued a wide-ranging pastoral letter, calling for a national reconciliation of the centuries-old divisions over ethnicity, historical interpretations and the often-strained relationship between church and state.
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By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The general counsel of the U.S. bishops was one of more than 100 leaders from varying religious organizations asking Congress to turn back legislation that would deny religious charities the right to hire only people of the same faith if those charities receive federal grants.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – A spokesman for Belgian Cardinal Godfried Danneels said the transcript of an April meeting with a victim of clergy sex abuse has been interpreted out of context.
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By Barb Arland-Fye
Catholic News Service
DAVENPORT, Iowa – Boosting morale in a diocese deeply wounded because of the abuse of children by some clergy in past decades, Catholics in the Davenport Diocese pledged $22 million in a capital campaign that succeeded despite the worst economic conditions in decades.
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Workers lower a tube with supplies to miners trapped in a deep underground copper and gold mine in Copiapo, Chile, about 450 miles north of Santiago, Aug. 25. Engineers are lowering supplies to help the 33 miners cope with what could be a long wait for rescue. The miners have requested religious items, such as statues of saints and a crucifix. (CNS photo/Ivan Alvarado, Reuters)
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI offered his prayers for the 33 men trapped underground in a gold and copper mine in Chile.
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Sister Leticia, regional superior of the Missionaries of Charity in the eastern United States and Canada, lights a candle during a eucharistic procession through the streets around St. Rita of Cascia Church in the South Bronx section of New York Aug. 26. The procession, which followed a special Mass marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, passed in front of the first convent established in the United States by Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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By Beth Griffin
Catholic News Service
NEW YORK – More than 1,000 people dressed in blue and white filled a cordoned traffic lane across from the Empire State Building Aug. 26 to protest the decision of the building’s owner to deny a request to illuminate the upper floors in honor of the 100th birthday of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta.
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Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes, who was head of the New Orleans Archdiocese at the time, stands amid the rubble of the collapsed roof of Our Lady of Lourdes Church in Slidell, La., after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Aug. 29 marks the fifth anniversary of the storm’s landfall in Louisiana. (CNS photo/Frank J. Methe, Clarion Herald)
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By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Five years after the devastating effects of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, rebuilding efforts are still very much a work in progress. Many, but not all, Gulf Coast residents have returned and although many homes and buildings have been rebuilt, more still needs to be done.
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By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Nearly eight months pregnant and raising her 18-month-old son as a single mom, Dominique Pointer knows that getting a federally subsidized apartment early in August was a blessing.
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Jim and Connie McDonough join Auxiliary Bishop Joseph N. Perry of Chicago and others as they pray for an end to violence during a prayer service in Chicago Aug. 21. Simultaneous back to school sunrise prayer services to pray for an end to violence, the protection of children and a successful and nonviolent school year were conducted at five Chicago beaches along the shores of Lake Michigan. (CNS photo/Karen Callaway, Catholic New World)
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By Michelle Martin
Catholic News Service
CHICAGO – The sunrise was invisible, but the hundreds of people who showed up at Masses and prayer services on five South Side beaches in the early morning Aug. 21 took it on faith.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
WARSAW, Poland – A national Catholic newspaper has become Poland’s top-selling weekly, outstripping its secular competitors.
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Dressed in red priest’s vestments, Ben de Boisblanc, 11, offers “Communion” to his grandmother Pat Martinez, as he re-enacts Mass at his home in suburban New Orleans in early July. Ben, who was born with Kabuki syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that affects learning, speech and motor skills, has let nothing stand in the way of his dream of becoming an altar server. (CNS photo/Beth Donze, Clarion Herald) (CNS)
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By Beth Donze
Catholic News Service
NEW ORLEANS – Dressed in red priest’s vestments, Ben de Boisblanc went through a preflight checklist for the Mass he was about to act out in his living room.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – Germany’s Catholic bishops have approved new guidelines for handling claims of sex abuse by church personnel to facilitate cooperation with law enforcement bodies.
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Douglas Kmiec, the U.S. ambassador to Malta, is pictured at his residence in Attard, Malta, in late March. Authorities say a car driven by the U.S. ambassador crashed Aug. 25 into a drainage ditch in Southern California, killing a nun and injuring a 94-year-old retired pastor. (CNS)
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CALABASAS, Calif. – A Sister of St. Louis was killed and the retired pastor of a Malibu parish was severely injured when a car driven by Douglas Kmiec, U.S. ambassador to Malta, crashed into a drainage ditch in Southern California Aug. 25.
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By David Agren
Catholic News Service
MEXICO CITY – Catholics in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas offered prayers for the 72 undocumented migrants from Central and South America whose bodies were discovered Aug. 24 in what was possibly the largest mass slaying since the country began cracking down on drug cartels and organized crime.
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A young flood victim stands with others to get food handouts while taking refuge with her family in a relief campin Sukkur, Pakistan, Aug. 27. Bishop Andrew Francis of Multan and Anglican Bishop Alexander Malik of Lahore led a convoy of food and bottled water to southern Punjab province, where five districts lie submerged under floodwaters. (CNS photo/Athar Hussain, Reuters)
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MULTAN, Pakistan – A Pakistani Catholic bishop and his Protestant counterpart led a convoy of food and bottled water to southern Punjab province, where five districts are submerged under floodwaters.
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Members of the Missionaries of Charity pray beside the tomb of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta in Calcutta, India, Aug. 26, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of her birth. (CNS photo/Anto Akkara)
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Blessed Teresa of Calcutta is “an exemplary model of Christian virtue” who showed the world that an authentic love for others opens the door to knowing and being with God, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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By Patricia Coll Freeman
Catholic News Service
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Alaskans passed a ballot initiative Aug. 24 that requires abortionists to notify a parent before performing an abortion on a minor girl in Alaska.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo praised a federal judge’s recent ruling that temporarily stopped federal funding for embryonic stem-cell research, but the U.S. Department of Justice said it would appeal the decision.
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Monsignor Fernando de la Vega, a priest at Our Lady of Montserrat Church in Havana, Cuba, is pictured in an undated photo. Monsignor de la Vega is considered one of Cuba’s foremost advocates for HIV and AIDS patients and has fed and counseled thousands of patients at his Havana church. (CNS photo/Rob O’Neal)
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By Tracey Eaton
Catholic News Service
HAVANA – A young man knocked on the door of the Catholic parish and asked for soap.
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Sue Krentz tends to a calf on her cattle ranch outside Douglas, Ariz., July 15. Her husband, Rob, was shot to death in March while working on the ranch 30 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border. (CNS photo/Patricia Zapor)
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
DOUGLAS, Ariz. – In a small town like Douglas, the mayor and the Catholic pastor tend to be in the middle of most of the important things that happen.
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By Catholic News Service
DUBLIN – An independent inquiry has cleared church leaders in Northern Ireland of any “criminal intent” in the case of a priest accused of a 1972 Irish Republican Army bombing in Northern Ireland.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A federal judge ruled Aug. 23 that the Obama administration’s guidelines for funding embryonic stem-cell research violate federal law and stopped such funding while a lawsuit against it continues.
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Blessed Teresa of Calcutta, the foundress of the Missionaries of Charity, who was beatified by Pope John Paul II in 2003, would have celebrated her 100th birthday Aug. 26. She is pictured with an unidentified woman during a 1976 visit to the U.S. (CNS photo/Robert S. Halvey)
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By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Thirteen years after her death, the impact of Blessed Teresa of Calcutta’s work and prayer is still felt around the world.
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By Catholic News Service
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In letters to Pope Benedict XVI and to St. Edward Parish in Nashville, Father Joe Pat Breen has retracted and apologized for statements made in an Internet video and subsequent media interviews that Catholics are not obligated to follow teachings of the Catholic Church as defined by the pope and bishops.
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Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., speaks during a 2009 news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston urged House members to support the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act, H.R. 5939, introduced by Reps. Smith and Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., which would make permanent the ban on federal funding of elective abortions. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities is urging members of the U.S. House of Representatives to support proposed legislation that would permanently forbid federal funding of abortion.
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A member of the Rajko Orchestra, made up of Hungarian Gypsy musicians, plays violin as Archbishop Antonio Maria Veglio, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers, left, watches during a concert in the Basilica of Santa Mari a in Trastevere in Rome March 2. Pope Benedict XVI called for greater tolerance of Gypsies Aug. 22. (CNS)
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CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – As France continues its campaign to repatriate foreign-born Gypsies, Pope Benedict XVI called for greater acceptance of cultural differences and urged parents to teach their children tolerance.
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