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January 19, 2012

After 503 years, Vatican Museums open doors to public at night

VATICAN CITY - For the first time in half a millennium, the doors of the Vatican Museums were open to the public at night.

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January 19, 2012

Three US-based theologians reappointed to international commission

VATICAN CITY – Three theologians who teach in the United States were appointed to second terms on the International Theological Commission, an advisory board to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

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January 19, 2012

Father Kitko remembered as compassionate, tireless

Father Joseph F. Kitko, the former pastor of Resurrection of Our Lord in Laurel and an indefatigable worker even in retirement, died July 23.

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January 19, 2012

Indiana Jones and the Christian catacombs? Not quite

VATICAN CITY (CNS) - Sometimes a job is just a job, even when from the outside it looks like it involves the stuff of an Indiana Jones movie.

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January 19, 2012

Migrants make significant contributions to host countries, pope says

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI described migration as “a social phenomenon of epoch-making proportions” in his social encyclical, “Caritas in Veritate” (“Charity in Truth”).

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January 19, 2012

Faithbook: Church dips into Internet social networking waters

“The Archdiocese of Baltimore has added you as a friend.”

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January 19, 2012

Heard but not seen: Catholic voice actor leads an animated life

WASHINGTON – Jim Cummings didn't exactly study his chosen career field during his 12 years of Catholic schooling, but he certainly honed his craft.

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January 19, 2012

Israel stops distributing booklet claiming Vatican-Hezbollah ties

JERUSALEM (CNS) - Booklets claiming that the Vatican helped organize tours of the Auschwitz concentration camp for Hezbollah members to teach them how to wipe out Jews were distributed to Israeli soldiers for several months before Israeli military officials suspended the distribution.

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January 19, 2012

Obama’s nominee to be ambassador to Vatican faces Senate committee

WASHINGTON (CNS) - U.S. Sen. Any Klobuchar, D-Minn., described theology professor Miguel Diaz as someone capable of narrowing gaps between communities and called his life a "modern-day immigrant success story."

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January 19, 2012

Terry: Catholics have responsibility to defy government on abortion

WASHINGTON – If coverage of abortion is not excluded in health care reform legislation, Catholics should refuse to pay their taxes, anti-abortion activist Randall Terry said.

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January 19, 2012

Health care must be universal, says USCCB letter to Congress

WASHINGTON – Health care is a matter of human life and dignity, a bishop wrote in a July 17 letter to Congress on behalf of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.

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January 19, 2012

To pope, humans more than just ‘units’ to be used, says ethicist

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI “has a vision of the human person that transcends seeing us as economic units or raw units to be used for biotechnical development,” said John Haas, president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.

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