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By Dennis Sadowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The administrator of the Diocese of Charleston, S.C., said a pastor who told his parishioners they should refrain from receiving holy Communion if they voted for President-elect Barack Obama did not “adequately reflect the Catholic Church’s teaching” on abortion and conscience.
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By Eileen Casey
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Catholic Charities agencies across the country are finding that the nation’s growing unemployment rate is one more factor in their efforts to provide food, clothing and shelter to those in need.
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Joseph Sullivan fills out a form Nov. 7 at the Verdugo Jobs Center, a partnership with the California Employment Development Department in Glendale, Calif. According to the U.S. Labor Department statistics released Nov. 7, the jobless rate rose to 6.5 percent in October when employers fired 240,000 workers. (CNS photo/Fred Prouser, Reuters)
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By Carol Zimmermann
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Behind the grim statistics about the nation’s rising jobless rate are men and women who need help, according to Catholic Church officials and economists at Catholic universities.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church must strengthen its efforts to educate and assist lay Catholics involved in politics so that the positions they hold and the policies they promote reflect the values of the faith they profess, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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By Catholic News Service
UNITED NATIONS – People of faith can help build a brotherhood of humanity that can reach across international borders to achieve world peace, the president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue said in an address to the General Assembly.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – A German diocese plans to use inflatable churches to bring the Gospel to young people.
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Severely malnourished Sadiki Basilaki, 9, receives a mug of milk at a Catholic mission feeding center in Rutshuru, 50 miles north of Goma, in eastern Congo Nov. 13. Aid workers began feeding tens of thousands of people who had gone hungry during fighting in rebel-held areas of eastern Congo. (CNS photo/Finbarr O’Reilly, Reuters)
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By Catholic News Service
KINSHASA, Congo – A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing hostilities in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Members of the International Catholic-Jewish Liaison Committee expressed “deep regret over certain polemical and intemperate statements” being made about Pope Pius XII.
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By Catholic News Service
NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A mailroom and printing plant at the Knights of Columbus headquarters in New Haven remained closed Nov. 14 while the local FBI office investigated a white powder contained in an envelope mailed from California.
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By Jonathan Luxmoore
Catholic News Service
OXFORD, England – The head of the commission representing Catholic bishops from the European Union has demanded tighter rules for the world economy to correct a “distorted hierarchy of values” highlighted by the global financial crisis.
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By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
ROME – Italian Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini said the 1968 encyclical “Humanae Vitae” (“Of Human Life”) has cut off the church from many of the people who most need its advice about human sexuality.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
Despite some continued criticism that the translation is plagued by obscure wording and sentences that are too long, the U.S. bishops approved another lengthy section of the English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal Nov. 11.
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development cut off funding earlier this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, for reasons unrelated to the organization’s current troubles over voter registration and partisan politics, reported the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee on CCHD.
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By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service
Several pro-life groups held a candlelight vigil Nov. 11 near the Baltimore hotel where the U.S. bishops were conducting their fall general assembly, protesting statements made by some Catholic leaders who called the victorious campaign of President-elect Barack Obama a step forward in stamping out racism.
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A basket containing prayer cards for expectant parents sits next to a baptismal font at St. Gerard Majella Church in Port Jefferson Station, N.Y., Nov. 2. The U.S. bishops will vote on a new service to bless a child in the womb during their fall meeting in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Gregory A. Shemitz)
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – To fill a gap in existing prayer books, the U.S. bishops Nov. 11 overwhelmingly approved a liturgical service in English and Spanish for blessing children in the womb.
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama telephoned Pope Benedict XVI to thank the pope for his message of congratulations on his election victory.
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
Fears about laws and changes in regulations on abortion that might advance under a new Democratic-run Congress and White House are the central focus of a statement approved by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Nov. 12 during their annual fall meeting in Baltimore.
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – At a time of economic crisis, the U.S. Catholic bishops issued a statement Nov. 11 reminding people that “we are our brothers’ and sisters’ keepers. We are all in this together.”
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Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, president of The Catholic University of America, smiles during a commencement ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington in late May. Father O’Connell reported to the U.S. bishops Nov. 10 that the university has had a record fundraising year in 2008 and a record-breaking freshman enrollment. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The Catholic University of America has had a record-breaking year for freshman enrollment and for national fundraising, its president, Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, reported Nov. 10 to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Bishops pray the Our Father during Mass Nov. 10 at the annual fall meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. At right is Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Chicago. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
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By Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The historic significance of the election of President-elect Barack Obama dominated the opening address of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly Nov. 10 in Baltimore.
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Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, prepares Nov. 10 for the start of the opening session of the U.S. bishops’ general fall meeting in Baltimore. (CNS photo/Nancy Wiechec)
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By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE – The historic significance of the election of President-elect Barack Obama dominated the Nov. 10 opening address of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly in Baltimore.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – German-born Pope Benedict XVI said he still feels “pain for what happened” in his homeland in 1938 when Nazi mobs went on the rampage against Jews, an event that became known as Kristallnacht.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Two Italian nuns, both in their 60s, were kidnapped Nov. 10 in northeastern Kenya near the border with Somalia, the Vatican newspaper reported.
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People walk in front of the expanded St. John’s Catholic Newman Center at the University of Illinois in Champaign in early September. The center was dedicated Sept. 7, and features two new dormitory wings for 300 students as well as more space for minis tries to the 10,000 Catholic students on campus. (CNS photo/Tom Dermody, Catholic Post)
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By Eileen Casey
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Across the nation 476 Newman centers offer pastoral services to 11 million Catholic college students at secular universities.
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