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“Global citizens” and U.S. politics

A Canadian friend recently alerted me to an international petition being organized by Avaaz.org, a “community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today.” (According to the organization’s polyglots, “‘avaaz’...means ‘voice’ or ‘song’ in...Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian.”) The petition asks “global citizens” around the world...
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USCCB, CHA officials encouraged about Obama’s address on health care

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama’s pledge to continue the ban on the use of federal funds for abortion and to maintain conscience protections for health care workers in any health reform legislation was welcomed by two officials of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and the president of the Catholic Health Association.
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After four centuries, Galileo to return to the Vatican

VATICAN CITY – Four centuries after he was called by church officials to retract teachings deemed suspect of heresy, the 17th-century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei will be returning to Vatican City.
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Legionaries’ letter to lay members details reforms order has made

WASHINGTON –The Legionaries of Christ have initiated a number of reforms since publicly acknowledging Feb. 4 that the order’s founder, Mexican Father Marcial Maciel Degollado, fathered a child, two U.S. Legionaries priests said in a letter to members of the order’s lay association, Regnum Christi.
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Erickson donates to Catholic organizations

Erickson Retirement Communities, the Baltimore-based senior housing developer that operates Charlestown and Oak Crest Village, donated $1.2 million to nonprofit organizations across the country last year.
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St. Margaret parishioner gives $100,000

Minutes after he gave away checks totaling $100,000 of his own money, Robert Melville just shrugged.
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Monsignor Cronin leaves a legacy of laughter in his wake

A funeral Mass will be offered March 5 for Monsignor James J. Cronin, a beloved pastor whose Irish wit and concern for his parishioners made him immensely popular.
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Bobby Flay throws down challenge to cooking priest, Father Leo

Father Leo Patalinghug is not the kind of guy who steps down from a challenge. The 39-year-old priest is a former national full-contact stick fighting champion, a black belt in tae kwon do and an 80s break dancer who can still bust the moves with the best of them.
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Vatican says baptisms using wrong words are not valid

VATICAN CITY – A baptism administered “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer and of the Sanctifier” is not a baptism at all, said the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Vote on gay clergy may cause rift in Lutheran denomination

WASHINGTON – A vote to permit the ordination of homosexuals in committed monogamous relationships for the United States’ largest Lutheran denomination may provoke a rift among its members and leaders.
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Cardinal hopes for new impetus in church-state relations

HAVANA – Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, said he hoped his six-day visit had helped give “new impetus to relations between the church and the government of Cuba.”
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Optimism about change spurs participants’ involvement in health event

WASHINGTON – Two participants in a nationwide teleconference organized by religious organizations that are supporting health care reform said they were optimistic that legislation will pass this year and that they don’t believe government funding of abortion will be a part of the bill.
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