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Conference examines Homeland Security’s handling of immigration

WASHINGTON – Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was created as an umbrella agency, its handling of immigration-related situations came in for harsh criticism at an immigration law and policy conference May 20.
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Vatican hopes U.S. will lift Cuba embargo, archbishop says

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican consistently has criticized the U.S. embargo against Cuba and hopes the Obama administration will lift the restrictions, recognizing the fact that they cause untold suffering for the Cuban people, a Vatican official said.
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‘The goal is God,’ says new Pittsburgh Symphony music director

PITTSBURGH – Manfred Honeck, the new music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, said he has come to understand how God has worked in his life and led him to where he is.
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Builder shares memories of Kirkleigh Villa and 1926

Jay Leno flaunts his fleet of custom automobiles, and Imelda Marcos was infamous for her shoe closet.
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YWCA leadership award presented to college president

Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.
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Murdered Jesuits honored 20 years after their deaths in El Salvador

WASHINGTON – Twenty years after they were killed at Central American University in San Salvador, along with their housekeeper and her daughter, six Jesuit priests are being honored by the Salvadoran government, the U.S. Congress and Jesuit institutions.
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Minister apologizes to Catholics; some question if politics behind it

WASHINGTON – After the Rev. John Hagee, a San Antonio televangelist, sent a letter to the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights apologizing for any comments he made “that Catholics have found hurtful,” the league’s president, William Donohue, said that “the case is closed.”
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“While Rome Burns …”

“No one has to have an abortion. To all of those in crisis pregnancies, I pledge our support and our financial help. Come to the Catholic Church. Let us walk with you through your time of trouble. Let us help you affirm life. Let us help you find a new life with your child, or...
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Israeli ambassador emphasizes ‘smoothing things up’ at Vatican

ROME – Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican have a tradition of being press-friendly, and Mordechay Lewy is no exception.
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Churches working to ensure everyone is counted in 2010 US census

WASHINGTON – Churches have a crucial role to play in ensuring that everyone is counted on Census Day 2010, April 1.
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African Cardinal Gantin, former Vatican official, dies in Paris

VATICAN CITY – Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, a pioneering church figure for Africa and an influential voice at the Vatican for more than 30 years, died in Paris May 13 at the age of 86.
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Bishops respond to Rep. Kennedy’s criticism of health care stance

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., about the U.S. bishops’ role in the health reform debate.
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