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Church institutions in Pakistan threatened with bomb attack

LAHORE, Pakistan – A Catholic Church center in Pakistan’s cosmopolitan eastern city of Lahore has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack, one of a series of intimidating messages given to Christians as the country’s security crisis worsens.
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Benetton removes image of pope kissing Muslim leader

VATICAN CITY – Hours after the Vatican condemned an Italian ad campaign that depicted Pope Benedict XVI kissing a Muslim leader, the Italian fashion house Benetton withdrew the photo.
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Monsignor Burke celebrates 50 years of priesthood

Friends added their spin during a good-hearted ‘roast,’ but much of what one needs to know about Monsignor William F. Burke was provided during his homily at St. Francis of Assisi June 7.
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Cardinals, archbishop honor Baltimore Catechism

Like thousands of other American Catholics of his generation, Cardinal William H. Keeler knows why God made him. “To know, love and serve him," Cardinal Keeler told The Catholic Review, paraphrasing the often-repeated answer he memorized as a child from the famous Baltimore Catechism. The familiar passage from the catechism is just one of many...
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Pope grants congregation power to more easily laicize some priests

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has granted the Congregation for Clergy new powers to dismiss from the priesthood and release from the obligation of celibacy priests who are living with women, who have abandoned their ministry for more than five years or who have engaged in seriously scandalous behavior.
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More than 2,000 protest in St. Peter’s Square

ROME – More than 2,000 people protesting capital punishment marched through Rome to St. Peter’s Square on Easter morning. The Easter March, as it was called, was designed to put pressure on the Italian government to propose a moratorium on capital punishment at the U.N. General Assembly April 23. The April 8 march was organized...
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Baltimore native retires from post at Apostolic Penitentiary

VATICAN CITY – In almost six years dealing with the most sensitive and serious matters of individual conscience, U.S. Cardinal J. Francis Stafford said he has had the “enormous grace” of coming to a deep understanding of how central forgiveness is to the message of the Gospel and the mission and life of the church.
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Bishop Spencer honors veterans on Veterans Day

ELLICOTT CITY – In a Veterans Day homily at St. Paul in Ellicott City, Auxiliary Bishop F. Richard Spencer of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services challenged Catholics to never forget the needs of the nation’s veterans.
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Omaha institute celebrates Year for Priests with summer program

OMAHA, Neb. – In an effort to support Pope Benedict XVI's proclamation of the Year for Priests, a designated time to encourage and foster “spiritual perfection” in priests, the Institute for Priestly Formation will offer a 10-week summer program to equip diocesan seminarians and priests with ways to further guide the people of their parishes...
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Maryland bishops speak out for religious freedom

Concerned about threats to religious freedom in Maryland and beyond, the state’s Catholic bishops released a Nov. 9 statement challenging all Marylanders to “reaffirm the basic, foundational principles upon which our democratic society is built.”
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180 Years of Service Love and Dedication

On July 2, the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the first order of African American Sisters in the United States will celebrate their 180th anniversary of dedication, service and love to God and his people.
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Bishops to select Archbishop O’Brien’s replacement on international committee

WASHINGTON – Under conference rules since 2008, the new heads of committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops get to shadow the current chairmen for a year as chairmen-elect. But the new chairman of the Committee on International Justice and Peace will get no such break-in period.
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