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January 19, 2012

Cardinal calls Mexican court decision on marriage ‘aberrant judgment’

MEXICO CITY – Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City denounced a recent Mexican Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of a same-sex marriage law in the nation’s capital as an “aberrant judgment.”
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January 19, 2012

Traditional Interfaith service to center on blessings for 2007

Maryland Gov.-elect Martin O’Malley heads the list of participants expected at the 14th Annual New Year’s Eve Interfaith Service at St. Ignatius, Baltimore, Dec. 31. The traditional Jewish, Christian and Muslim interfaith service will begin at 8 p.m. with a 30-minute musical program, followed by prayers for blessings in the New Year.
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January 19, 2012

Allowing girl servers ended prejudice, inequality, says Vatican paper

VATICAN CITY - Permitting girls to serve at the altar marked the end of a form of inequality in the church and allowed girls to experience the formative power of directly assisting with the mystery of the Eucharist - the core of the Christian faith, said the Vatican newspaper.
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January 19, 2012

Christian dalits fast in India’s capital to protest for equal rights

Catholic laypeople have been fasting in India's capital for nearly two weeks to end discrimination against Christian dalits, or low castes without equal rights.Franklin Thomas, coordinator of the National Council of Dalit Christians, spoke to Catholic News Service about the hunger protest. The activists are reigniting the demand for Christian rights while the Indian Parliament...
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January 19, 2012

One Benedictine nun killed, two seriously injured in Virginia accident

ARLINGTON, Va. – Two members of the Benedictine Sisters of Virginia remained in critical condition Aug. 4 following an accident that killed another member of their religious community.
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January 19, 2012

Is shopping the ruination of Christmas?

Our lengthy "holiday season" driven by the consumer-confidence index and lasting for months is a bad idea, writes Stephen Kent. It all adds up to a festival of consumerism, he believes; it wrings the true meaning out of Christmas. But Liz Quirin says that in her family Christmas shopping is a happy time of being...
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January 19, 2012

Traditionalist Anglicans split over response to ordaining women bishops

LONDON – A group of traditionalist Anglican bishops has admitted that Anglo-Catholic clergy are sharply divided over how to respond to the ordination of women as bishops.
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January 19, 2012

St. Angela Merici

St. Angela Merici was born March 21, 1474, in Italy. At the young age of 15, she became a Franciscan tertiary and had a vision that she would inspire women in vocations. While making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, she became blind. Instead of going home, she continued on her pilgrimage. Afterwards, Angela Merici...
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January 19, 2012

Priest, 80, found murdered in Mexican state of Oaxaca

GUADALAJARA, Mexico – An 80-year-old priest was murdered July 28 in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, where church officials say attacks on prelates have become distressingly common.
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January 19, 2012

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

St. Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows was born in 1838 in Assisi, Italy. After a youth spent in society and chasing women, Our Lady led him to the Passionist Order. He devoted his life to prayer, devotion to Our Lady and contemplation of her sorrow over the suffering of Jesus. Pope Benedict XV lifted...
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January 19, 2012

Church-run dining room on the border serves deportees

NOGALES, Mexico – Victor Hernandez Martinez, a blacksmith with his own business near Seattle, was on his third day at the “Centro para Atenci›n a los Migrantes Deportados,” the Center to Help Deported Migrants, a few hundred yards inside the Mexican border from Arizona.
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January 19, 2012

St. Lea

St. Lea lived in the fourth century. After she became a widow, she went to a Roman monastery and would later become the superior there. Writing after St. Lea’s death, St. Jerome praised St. Lea for living such a devout life free of the things of the world. He proposed a life of renunciation.
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