News
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17-Aug-2009
A L'Osservatore Romano article says the US and British governments knew in detail of Hitler's plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II but
failed to act for many months and even suppressed reports on the
extent of the Holocaust.
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17-Aug-2009
Former Los Angeles priest, Michael Baker, who is in prison after
pleading guilty to molesting two boys, has been called to testify
before a federal grand jury investigating how the Archdiocese of Los
Angeles handled claims of abuse, reports say.
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17-Aug-2009
Fourteen Catholic churches - most in some of South Florida's poorest
urban areas - will be closed and members sent elsewhere, the
Archdiocese of Miami has announced.
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17-Aug-2009
The Vatican museums will stay open late on
Fridays during September andOctober, allowing visitors the evening
hours view of exhibits,paintings, and frescoes of world-renown.
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17-Aug-2009
The Vatican Congregation for the Clergy has announced that Pope
Benedict plans to close the Year for Priests by inviting every Catholic priest to join him in Rome from June 9-11 2010.
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17-Aug-2009
World War II Staff Sergeant James B. Moore, who was killed in New Guinea in 1943, is home at last in Massachusetts where his body was buried last week.
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Regulars
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17-Aug-2009
[Last week] I went to Our Lady of Victory Church in Centerville and
there presided over the reception of the body of Eunice Kennedy Shriver
in an intimate ceremony with the pastor, Father Mark Hession, and the
members of the Kennedy and Shriver families. - Cardinal Sean O'Malley @ Cardinal Sean's Blog
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17-Aug-2009
Visitors to the Basilica of the National Shrine in northeast Washington
often do a double take when they see Newt Gingrich and his familiar
shock of white hair slip into a pew for the noon Mass on Sundays. The
former Speaker of the House is known for many things, but religious
zeal is not one of them. Gingrich's spiritual awakening has struck more than a few political
observers as a bit of positioning for the GOP nomination in 2012. - Amy Sullivan @ Time
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17-Aug-2009
The USCCB has established a special website in which it sets out its policy on the controversial topic of health care reform. - www.usccb.org/healthcare
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17-Aug-2009
People want to be religious, says religious scholar Karen Armstrong,
and we should act to help make religion a force for harmony. - Karen Armstrong talks to the TED commmunity @ YouTube
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