News
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Regulars
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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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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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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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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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