Professor assesses how well candidates ‘thump the Bible’

WASHINGTON – Presidential politics might seem like an unusual topic for an associate professor of Jewish civilization at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service to tackle.
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New U.S. ambassador to Vatican arrives in Rome

ROME – The new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican, Mary Ann Glendon, arrived in Rome Feb. 15 and said she looked forward to working with the Vatican on issues of religious freedom and religious tolerance.
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Colombian guerrilla group rejects church as mediator

BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombia’s largest Marxist guerrilla group said it would not accept the Catholic Church as a mediator in its armed conflict with the government. Raul Reyes, spokesman for the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, told the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina Feb. 14 that the Catholic Church was not acting impartially.
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IAAM names winter all-stars

The Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland named the following Catholic high school athletes winter sports all-stars.
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Young and Young Adult Pilgrimage slated for March 15

Martha Collinson quietly instructs a worker with developmental disabilities on how to glue two pieces of wood together. The production manager for Providence Center Inc. patiently shows him how to spread the glue several times, and when the pieces are securely clamped, she moves on to the sanding room. There workers are sanding wood inlaid...
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‘Women’s’ disease poses threat to men

One in two American women will suffer a fracture caused by osteoporosis, but men need to be worrying, too. One out of every four men older than 50 will suffer an osteoporosis-related fracture, but unlike women, men aren’t as aware of the disease and don’t take steps to prevent it.
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Australian prime minister apologizes to Aboriginal peoples

CANBERRA, Australia – Members of Parliament and visitors gave Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a standing ovation after he made a long-awaited apology to Australia’s Aboriginal peoples.
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Valentine’s dinner becomes affair of the heart for victims

ATKINS, Ark. – Assumption Church’s annual Valentine’s roast beef dinner became an affair of the heart for victims of a February tornado that swept through Atkins, killing four people and damaging or destroying more than 100 homes and businesses.
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San Antonio archbishop unhappy with Clinton rally

SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said he was “neither advised nor consulted” by St. Mary’s University officials when the school agreed to host a Feb. 13 evening rally for Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton sponsored by the group “Texas for Hillary.”
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Not all political issues of equal value, says Bishop DiMarzio

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – A “hierarchy of values” exists, which means not all political issues are of equal value, said Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio of Brooklyn. “Our faith must inform our political decisions,” he said, and Catholic voters are obliged to distinguish “between moral evil,” such as abortion, “and matters of prudential judgment,” such as tuition tax...
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Archbishop Burke seeks dissident priest’s reconciliation

ST. LOUIS – Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis said Feb. 5 that he is “safeguarding the unity of the church” by insisting that a suspended and excommunicated priest associated with the lay board of a suppressed parish meet with him.
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Cardinal suggests U.N. intervention to help solve crisis

BEIRUT, Lebanon – A Lebanese cardinal called the militant Islamic group Hezbollah a “true problem” and suggested U.N. intervention to help solve Lebanon’s political crisis.
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