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Faith-based investors to apply ‘green’ index in investment decisions

WASHINGTON – The Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility said Feb. 5 it would use an index measuring how “green” publicly traded corporations are to help it make investment decisions and push for more eco-friendly business practices.
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Cardinal criticizes idea of fatherless babies in bill

LONDON – A British cardinal has criticized proposals to allow lesbians to become joint legal parents of children created for them through in vitro fertilization.
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Bill aimed at repealing Defense of Marriage Act gets U.S. Senate hearing

WASHINGTON – Legislation pending in both houses of Congress would repeal the 15-year-old Defense of Marriage Act, allowing legally married same-sex couples to take advantage of the same benefits married heterosexual couples receive under federal law.
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Gov. O’Malley calls for up or down vote on death penalty

Calling the death penalty “an expensive and utterly ineffective tool in deterring violent crime,” Gov. Martin J. O’Malley implored members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee to allow his proposed capital punishment ban to reach the floor for a vote by the full legislative body.
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Father Leo Patalinghug to appear on EWTN

Father Leo Patalinghug, director of pastoral field education at Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, will be the featured guest on EWTN’s Life on the Rock program Nov. 29. The live broadcast is scheduled for 8-9 p.m.
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Former Curley principal named Georgia bishop

Conventual Franciscan Father Gregory Hartmayer, principal of Archbishop Curley High School during the mid-1980s, has been named Bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in Georgia.
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Jesuits’ Oregon province, facing abuse lawsuits, files for bankruptcy

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon province of the Society of Jesus filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Feb. 17 citing a number of pending lawsuits over clergy sexual abuse claims.
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Churches join for ecumenical World AIDS Day service

For the past several years’ parishioners of St. Cecilia, Baltimore, have paid homage to men and women living with HIV/AIDS and those who have died as a result of the virus with a special service on World AIDS Day.
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Vatican reports budget surplus for 2010, says worldwide giving down

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican reported a budget surplus for the first time in four years in 2010, but said contributions from Catholics and dioceses around the world had gone down.
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• Father says miracle kept him alive after heart attack

Joseph Roberts says he’s still around because of a miracle – or maybe two or three.
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Archbishop Wuerl hopes pope’s visit will energize faith

WASHINGTON – Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl said he hopes Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the nation’s capital next spring will deepen the faith of Catholics in the Archdiocese of Washington and give them new energy.
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Archbishop calls for political will to end ‘scourge’ of nuclear weapons

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Nuclear weapons have “threatened humanity” for far too long and the world’s leaders lack the political will to remove “this scourge,” said the Vatican’s ambassador to the United Nations.
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