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Catholic leaders cheer U.N. decision on peacekeeping force

WASHINGTON – The United Nations’ decision July 31 to send a peacekeeping force to the Darfur region of Sudan drew cheers from Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based confederation of Catholic relief, development and social service organizations.
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I have come to serve

It was 2 a.m. I was in the midst of a four-hour layover in the Anchorage, Alaska, airport, drowsy and sluggish and looking forward to my connection to Japan to visit our military members and their families. I was in no shape or mood for evangelizing, but off to the side sensed someone approaching.
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Speaker says best way to continue Rev. King’s mission is to love

GARY, Ind. – If you ask the question “What’s love got to do with it?” from the Tina Turner song, Vincent Guider replies, “Everything.”
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Veteran priest: future clerics should examine their motives

As Father Thomas T. Polk walked down the center isle of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, immediately following his 1967 ordination, the show of support from the many priests throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore reinforced his sudden status as a priest.
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Movie Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

NEW YORK - The fourth movie in the series inspired by the Disneyland attraction, “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” (Disney), spins a yarn that leads to the Fountain of Youth. No wonder it makes the popular franchise feel long in the tooth. While not a bust or a bore, “On Stranger Tides” would...
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Thy Perfect Light

Last Tuesday, the Vatican officially recognized the Epiphany of the Lord, or Three Kings Day, with Pope Benedict XVI celebrating the Feast (moved to the previous Sunday in Baltimore and many local Churches throughout the world) which marks the visit of the Magi who followed a star to a manger in Bethlehem in pursuit of...
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Pope says farewell to Alpine villages, heads to papal summer villa

LORENZAGO DI CADORE, Italy – Pope Benedict XVI left the Italian Alps July 27, flying to Rome and then driving to the papal summer villa at Castel Gandolfo. On the eve of his departure from Lorenzago di Cadore, the pope met with the mayors of the 22 small towns in the region and with the...
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Former St. Veronica pastor, a Josephite, dies

A funeral Mass was offered May 9 for Josephite Father Paul Banet.
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Buffalo businessman targeted Catholics in $17 million Ponzi scheme

WASHINGTON – Catholics were targeted by an 82-year-old Buffalo, N.Y., businessman accused of running a Ponzi scheme involving at least $17 million generated from investors who responded to ads in diocesan newspapers, federal prosecutors allege.
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Twin Cities lead nation in rate of volunteerism

WASHINGTON – Minneapolis-St. Paul led the nation in a new federal study that ranked volunteer rates among the populations of the nation’s major metropolitan areas.
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Mexican immigration officials fired in probe of migrant abductions

MEXICO CITY – The Interior Ministry fired seven top officials in charge of immigration matters in regions where the abduction of undocumented migrants by organized gangs has been rampant and local officials increasingly are being implicated as complicit in the crimes.
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Pope says world’s future depends on ethical solutions to poverty, war

VATICAN CITY – Saying the future of the world was at stake, Pope Benedict XVI called for major new efforts to reduce global poverty, end regional conflicts and restore ethics to global financial systems.
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