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Bishops’ committee says professor’s book misrepresents Catholic faith

WASHINGTON – In a detailed critique, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine has concluded that a 2007 book written by Fordham University theology professor Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson “contains misrepresentations, ambiguities and errors” related to the Catholic faith.
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Charities, parishes struggle to keep pace in slow economy

Not so long ago, Oredolapo Roberts lived in a four-bedroom house, owned a successful business and drove her kids around in a new Chevy Tahoe.
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Iraqi Christians were safer under Saddam

VATICAN CITY – Although Iraq has a democratic government, Iraqi Christians were safer and had more protection under former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, said the future head of the Vatican’s interreligious dialogue council.
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Missionaries of Charity provide guidance, haven to Baltimore children

The Missionaries of Charity, the order of religious women founded by Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, came to Baltimore in 1992, establishing the “Gift of Hope” in the former St. Wenceslaus Parish convent.
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Story behind the photo: School Sister affected many in Baltimore

Media outlets enjoy feedback – especially when it sheds light on a subject. In the Oct. 23 issue of The Catholic Review, a tribute to the School Sisters of Notre Dame included a photo of an unidentified member of the order. The day after publication, an e-mail arrived from Gerard A. Kreft, a parishioner of...
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Excess TV bad for Americans individually and collectively

WASHINGTON – Every so often, you may have an opinion about some issue. You know in your heart that it’s so, but you rarely have the material to back up your belief – or suspicion, as the case may be.
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Paulist campus minister and film reviewer dies

Paulist Father Phillip J. Cunningham, a former Catholic chaplain at The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore and a film reviewer for The Catholic Review, died March 11 at age 88.
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188 Japanese martyrs beatified at Mass in Nagasaki

VATICAN CITY – Christian martyrdom is the fullest expression of human freedom and reflects the supreme act of love, said a top Vatican official at a Mass beatifying 188 Japanese martyrs.
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Interreligious dialogue called critical to solving ‘family problems’

NEW YORK – Problems among Christians, Muslims and Jews are “family problems,” because the three traditions, sharing an ancestor in Abraham, have much more in common than what divides them, said the Italian founder of a monastery community in the Syrian desert.
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Acknowledge the abundance in our midst

Virtually everything we take for granted in our lives would seem like a “miracle” to most of those who have lived centuries before us.
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At 25, pastoral letter on peace set goals that remain unfulfilled

WASHINGTON – May 3 marked the 25th anniversary of the U.S. bishops’ pastoral letter on peace, “The Challenge of Peace: God’s Promise and Our Response.” In contrast to the highly public process that led to its adoption, the document’s silver anniversary passed with hardly any notice.
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Few buses transport students to Catholic schools, costs and geographic spread cited

As a young girl in the late 1960s, Nancy Perlman boarded a school bus near her Rodgers Forge home five mornings a week that delivered her safely to nearby St. Pius X School. It was a luxury for which her parents happily paid, in addition to the annual tuition for the Catholic education the now...
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