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Nuns help London residents displaced by rioting

LONDON – Catholic nuns who live near London neighborhoods hit by riots are working with local authorities to help – and even counsel – homeless victims.
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HHS opens 30-day comment period on conscience protections rule

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is accepting comments until April 9 on its move to rescind a Bush administration regulation giving federal protection to the conscience rights of health care providers.
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Free Stroke Seminar

In honor of National Stroke Awareness month, St. Agnes, Baltimore, will host a free seminar, “new Rehabilitation Advances in the Treatment of Stroke,” May 15.
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Our Lady of the Mountains hits ground running

CRESAPTOWN – Nearly two months after Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien gave his approval to establish a unified Cumberland-area parish out of five existing ones, the new “Our Lady of the Mountains” parish is taking shape.
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Cardinal says new Obama stem-cell policy favors politics over ethics

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s executive order reversing the ban on federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research represents “a sad victory of politics over science and ethics,” Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said shortly after the March 9 signing of the order at the White House.
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MySpace page helps minister stay online with youth

When St. William of York, Baltimore, youth minister, Wayne Hipley, started his youth ministry career five years ago, he was told to “go where the kids are “– meaning find out what activities young people are interested in, what music they are listening to and what is “cool” and incorporate it into the youth group...
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Catholic agencies part of aid campaign in Horn of Africa

LUSAKA, Zambia – Catholic agencies are reported to be among the leading organizations providing humanitarian aid to the drought- and famine-ravaged Horn of Africa.
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Scout Mass honors hundreds of children, men and women

Sarah Jordan is the youngest member of the pastoral council at St. Brigid in Canton.
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Family, friends say farewell to New Jersey shooting victim

FLEMINGTON, N.J. – Hundreds of friends, classmates and family members filled St. Magdalen de Pazzi Church in Flemington for the April 24 funeral Mass for Michael Steven Pohle Jr., one of 32 victims of a student gunman who went on a shooting rampage April 16 at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. The Mass was celebrated...
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At funeral, Vatican official says nuncio was to get Vatican post

VATICAN CITY - At the end of the funeral for Italian Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the former nuncio to the United States, a Vatican official confirmed that Pope Benedict XVI had been planning to bring the archbishop back to Rome to take up an important post at the Vatican.
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California woman to be baptized by pope at Easter Vigil

WASHINGTON – This year, parishioners at St. Joseph Church in Modesto, Calif., are more excited than usual about Easter.
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Limbo reflects ‘restrictive view of salvation’

VATICAN CITY – After several years of study, the Vatican’s International Theological Commission said there are good reasons to hope that babies who die without being baptized go to heaven. In a document published April 20, the commission said the traditional concept of limbo – as a place where unbaptized infants spend eternity but without...
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