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Doctors remove pope’s cast, say wrist is healing well

VATICAN CITY – Doctors have removed the cast and wires from Pope Benedict XVI’s right wrist and said the healing process went perfectly.
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Prayer, fasting campaign planned for upcoming economic summit

PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Bishop David A. Zubik has urged local Catholics to be welcoming and offer hospitality and prayer when the city hosts the Sept. 24-25 Group of 20 summit focusing on the economic recession.
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Eagle Scout beautifies Fullerton parish

Benjamin Lelonek is to achieve the rank of Eagle Scout during a Troop 746 court of honor ceremony at St. Joseph in Fullerton.
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Archbishop O’Brien to move into Basilica residence

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and Cardinal William H. Keeler will soon have new homes. After two years in Baltimore, the archbishop is moving from a Sulpician apartment building in North Baltimore to the archbishop’s residence adjacent to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in downtown Baltimore.
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U.S. religious freedom watchdog adds India to its watch list

WASHINGTON - Increasing violence against religious minorities, particularly Christians, and the government’s inadequate response to that violence in 2008 prompted the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom to add India to its 2009 watch list of countries where conditions of religious freedom require close monitoring.
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Neighbor’s kindness influenced schools’ choice

The article about Nick D’Adamo Sr. and his son (CR, Aug. 6) struck a sentimental and nostalgic chord. I lived next door to Mr. Nick and his family in Baltimore from 1972 to 1988. I was 18 when we moved away. Twenty-one years later, my memories of Mr. Nick are still unmistakably fond. His smile...
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Two Indian dioceses close schools for week as swine flu spreads

PUNE, India – The Diocese of Pune closed its schools for a week and postponed several programs as swine flu spread throughout the western Indian city.
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Taiwanese Catholics help typhoon victims with food, shelter

WASHINGTON – Catholic bishops in Taiwan asked their people to pray for the victims of Typhoon Morakot, which dumped more than 80 inches of rain on the island the second weekend in August.
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St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore, and Baltimore City reach agreement

Father Richard T. Lawrence always looked at the many homeless living on St. Vincent de Paul’s parish park as people rather than a nuisance.
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No evil in generating real wealth

The article “Strength from gentle pope” (CR, July 30) came to a correct conclusion when it called us to study the encyclical. However, terms must be understood. If Tony Magliano understood the implications of “profit” and “improper means,” he would have realized that the present economic crisis is the antithesis of “the accumulation of money...
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A soldier’s grandmother points to Fatima

I read with some trepidation “Nuclear Weapons and Moral Questions: The Path to Zero,” a challenging article by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien; His connection being his ministry with the U.S. Military, mine having a grandson at Camp Lejeune, N.C.
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