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Father Caamano, Opus Dei’s U.S. vicar in the 1980s, dies

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. – Father Raphael Caamano, a Spaniard who was the U.S. head of the Opus Dei personal prelature from 1980 until 1988, died May 21 of cancer at his home in Chestnut Hill. He was 82. A funeral Mass was celebrated May 23 at St. Lawrence Church in Brookline. Father Caamano was buried...
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Company offers electronic rosary with late pope’s voice leading prayers

VATICAN CITY – An Italian company is offering an electronic rosary with the voice of Pope John Paul II leading the prayers.
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Bishops’ document on election goes high tech in podcast, video format

WASHINGTON – Ask Catholic teenagers if they’ve read a recent document by the U.S. bishops and you might get a blank look.
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An estimated 50,000 recite rosary at Rose Bowl

PASADENA, Calif. – Southern California’s largest rosary recitation in more than 50 years offered a broad cross-section of ages and ethnicities in the local Catholic Church, and a link to a storied tradition. Some 50,000 people at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena May 19 prayed the rosary during the Rosary Bowl, an event sponsored by...
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Do we need an Advent intervention?

It’s Advent again, my friends. This is a time for us to prepare ourselves for the return of Jesus. One might ask, aren’t we to be doing that daily? I agree that we should. We get caught up in everyday living, however, and this takes us away from what we as Catholic Christians should be...
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Cardinal says main priority is to help people suffering after Ike

HOUSTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston told archdiocesan employees Sept. 17 that in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike his “major preoccupation right now” is the number of people who are lacking food and water and facing “difficulties with gasoline and lack of power.”
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Diplomats learn Vatican’s unique, complex global role

VATICAN CITY – In early May, the Vatican opened its doors to 18 diplomats from Mediterranean and Middle Eastern countries with significant Muslim populations. The young diplomats were attending a May 7-27 introductory course on the Vatican, Vatican diplomacy and the Vatican’s approach to Catholic-Muslim and intercultural dialogue. “We saw beautiful rooms in the Vatican...
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Mercy Medical’s Bunting Center boasts state-of-the-art technology and spiritual touches

When other city hospitals relocated to the suburbs in the middle of the last century, leaders of Mercy Medical Center made a conscious decision to keep the Catholic hospital in downtown Baltimore.
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Some Ecuadorean priests urge Catholics to vote against constitution

LIMA, Peru – A conflict between Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Catholic Church leaders in the country’s biggest city has grown more pronounced as a referendum nears on the new constitution.
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‘Lemon-aid’ stand keeps Libertytown parishioners cool

Nine-year-old Ashlyn Thomas has always dreamed of opening a lemonade stand outside her house in Libertytown, but there was never enough foot traffic on her street to justify it. That’s not a problem at her home parish of St. Peter the Apostle in Libertytown where hundreds of people gather for Sunday Masses every week. With...
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Green Bay bishop becomes first in U.S. to approve Marian apparitions

CHAMPION, Wis. – Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay has approved the Marian apparitions seen by Adele Brise in 1859, making the apparitions of Mary that occurred some 18 miles northeast of Green Bay the first in the United States to receive approval of a diocesan bishop.
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Political literature gets two arrested at basilica

Two demonstrators were arrested for trespassing at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore Sept. 14.
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