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January 19, 2012

Roses and thorns: Pope lays achievements, concerns at feet of Mary

ROME – Laying a basket of white roses at the foot of a statue of Mary, Pope Benedict XVI said Catholics can lay everything at the feet of their heavenly mother.

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January 19, 2012

Papal visit on CUA campus excites Catholic students active in faith

WASHINGTON – Late-night talks with friends about life and faith are common in the dorm rooms of The Catholic University of America. Talking about the Catholic Church in class is pretty normal, too.

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January 19, 2012

Pope urges everyone to rediscover St. Therese’s autobiography

VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI called St. Therese of Lisieux’s autobiography, “The Story of a Soul,” a wonderful authentic “treasure” and invited everyone to read it.

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January 19, 2012

Austrian monks’ CD of Gregorian chant is topping pop charts worldwide

NEW YORK – They’re Austrian. They’re Catholic. They sing. That description might make readers think of “The Sound of Music” and the von Trapp family, but the singers in question are Cistercian monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey, a 12th-century monastery near Vienna.

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January 19, 2012

Pope steps up appeals for end to bloodbath in Iraq

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI stepped up appeals for an end to the bloodbath and hatred tearing apart Iraq.

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January 19, 2012

Anti-Muslim sentiment: Catholics say it reminds them of own experience

WASHINGTON – When Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., led the first Senate Judiciary Committee hearing examining the civil rights of American Muslims March 29, he held aloft a small yellow prayer book no bigger than his hand.

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January 19, 2012

Polochick keeps ‘Messiah’ true to Baroque era

Edward Polochick has been conducting Handel’s “Messiah” in Baltimore since 1982, but he never grows tired of it.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien tours Washington County

HAGERSTOWN – Standing beneath a large painting of the crucifixion at St. Ann in Hagerstown, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien challenged Washington County parishioners to “embrace” the crosses that come into their lives.

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January 19, 2012

Panelists: Welcome immigrants or lose them to other faiths, secularism

WASHINGTON – With the bulk of U.S. population growth coming among Hispanics, the Catholic Church must get out ahead in welcoming Latino newcomers or they will become involved in other institutions and activities instead, cautioned panelists at a conference on immigration and the church.

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January 19, 2012

Pope believes interreligious dialogue must consider cultural concerns

VATICAN CITY – Interreligious dialogue can and must be about the cultural consequences of one’s faith, not about the basic fundamentals of one’s religious convictions, Pope Benedict XVI said.

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January 19, 2012

“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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January 19, 2012

Oregon Jesuit province to pay $166 million to abuse victims

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Oregon province of the Society of Jesus has agreed to pay $166.1 million to about 500 people abused by Jesuit priests at schools in the Pacific Northwest in past decades.

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