August 24 2009

24-Aug-2009

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  1. Scottish priest welcomes PA103 bomber release  

    24-Aug-2009

    Scottish priest Fr Patrick Keegans who served at Lockerbie, Scotland, at the time of the terrorist attack on the Pan Am 103 airliner has welcomed the release from jail of the only person convicted over it.

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  2. North-South relations thaw as Korea’s Kim buried  

    24-Aug-2009

    Twenty thousand mourners attended the funeral of former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung Sunday amid reports of a thaw in relations between North and South Korea.

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  3. Jailed Vietnamese activists in TV ‘confession’  

    24-Aug-2009

    Vietnamese television channels have aired video clips of five jailed activists confessing to attempting to undermine and overthrow the Vietnamese state, then begging for leniency.

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  4. Pope’s plaster cast off but wrist ‘lazy’  

    24-Aug-2009

    Pope Benedict has had the cast removed from his broken wrist but his right hand is still "lazy", he told pilgrims Sunday.

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  5. Man convicted over Moscow Jesuit killing  

    24-Aug-2009

    A Moscow City Court jusry has found Mikhail Orekhov guilty of killing Fr Victor Betancourtone, one of the two Jesuits who were found dead in a Moscow apartment last year.

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  6. Baltimore investigates ex-USCCB official  

    24-Aug-2009

    Baltimore Archdiocese has removed Msgr Thomas Bevan from his parish as it investigates allegations that the former executive director of the USCCB Secretariat for Priestly Life and Ministry sexually abused a minor in the 1970s.

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  8. Feature - Crisis or crossroads for sisters  

    24-Aug-2009

    Ann Carey, author of Sisters in Crisis: The Tragic Unraveling of Women's Religious Communities, says the [Vatican] visitation should have surprised very few people. She says: "The fact is, people who have been watching the deterioration of many women's religious orders in this country were not at all surprised. Indeed, many Sisters themselves have asked and prayed for Vatican attention to the condition of women's religious communities." - Anna Arco @ Catholic Herald

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  9. Featured Website - Center of Concern  

    24-Aug-2009

    The Center of Concern describes itself as "a faith-based organization working in collaboration with ecumenical and interfaith networks to bring a prophetic voice for social and economic justice to a global context". - www.coc.org

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  10. Opinion - WWJD about a friend who had an abortion?  

    24-Aug-2009

    One of my youngest daughter's friends marked the summer after her high school graduation by getting an abortion. And I have to admit that the next time I saw her friend, whom I have known since she was a little girl and who has always been welcomed like one of our own, I treated her coolly. Except that, while she was visiting with my daughter, she suddenly felt nauseous, and then feverish. - Valerie Schultz @ America Magazine

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  11. Multimedia - USCCB on the Roman Missal 3rd edition  

    24-Aug-2009

    USCCB Committee on Divine Worship Chairman, Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli, explains the coming Third Edition of the Roman Missal. - Divine Worship Committee @ USCCB

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