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January 19, 2012

Martyred Polish priest beatified at Mass in Warsaw in front of 140,000

WARSAW, Poland – A martyred Polish priest was praised for standing against the oppressive forces of communism when he defended human rights in his sermons during a beatification Mass in the Polish capital.
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January 19, 2012

Polish bishops rap rejection

WARSAW, Poland – Poland’s Catholic bishops criticized legislators’ rejection of proposed constitutional amendments that would have protected life from the moment of conception. “Arbitrary parliamentary arithmetic has won the upper hand over each person’s elementary right to life,” said the bishops in a statement April 13. “The church in Poland will go on supporting actions...
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January 19, 2012

Eucharistic Hospitality

Part two of the column that appeared in this space last week regarding the New York Times will appear in next week’s Catholic Review.
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January 19, 2012

China’s one-child policy takes toll on vocations

BEIJING – China’s one-child policy, begun nearly 30 years ago, still provides pastoral challenges and is taking a toll on vocations, said some Chinese church leaders. Auxiliary Bishop Paul Pei Junmin of Liaoning said that, in the past, the diocese used to have 20 young men and women enter the seminary and convent each year,...
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January 19, 2012

Interfaith coalition introduces new anti-violence projects

Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden looked around at various Baltimore city faith leaders May 27 and envisioned a day when violence wasn’t a way of life.
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January 19, 2012

Work must not just be about productivity, but charity

VATICAN CITY – The working world must not just be about competition and productivity; today’s workers must also make room for charity and defending human dignity, said Pope Benedict XVI. “Today more than ever it’s urgent and necessary” to live as Christians in the workplace and to become “apostles among workers,” the pope said. “Becoming...
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January 19, 2012

Shroud of Turin visit inspires archbishop, pilgrims

TURIN, Italy – A group from the Archdiocese of Baltimore led by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien joined a throng of pilgrims from around the world to see the Shroud of Turin during its 2010 exhibition.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop calls U.S. immigration policy ‘totally immoral’

MIAMI – Calling U.S. immigration policy toward Haitians “totally immoral,” Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami has urged “the powers that be” to grant temporary protected status to all Haitian migrants until the political and economic situation in their island nation stabilizes. He also pleaded for the immediate release from detention of 101 Haitians –...
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January 19, 2012

Priest-composer of ‘On Eagle’s Wings’ sees faith with new eyes after recovery from illness

ST. PAUL, Minn. – One of the duties of a priest is to minister to the sick and suffering. But when Guillain-Barre syndrome paralyzed Father Jan Michael Joncas and brought him close to death in 2003, the well-known liturgical music composer suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a ministry he knew well.
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January 19, 2012

French nun says life has changed since healing

AIX-EN-PROVENCE, France – The French nun who believes she was healed of Parkinson’s disease thanks to Pope John Paul II said her life had “totally changed” since that night two months after the pope’s death. Sister Marie-Simon-Pierre, 46, is working again, now in Paris at a maternity hospital run by her order, the Little Sisters...
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January 19, 2012

Floridians who make living from sea worried by effects of BP oil spill

ORLANDO, Fla. – Sal Versaggi is no stranger to battling disaster.
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January 19, 2012

‘Apostle of the Alleghenies’ up for sainthood

The sainthood cause for Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a former pastor of St. Joseph in Taneytown and St. Patrick in Cumberland, has been opened by the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Penn. Father Gallitzin, a Russian prince who was the second priest ordained in the United States and the first to receive all his holy orders in...
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