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Lord, please don’t hear this prayer – yet again

This past Dec. 28, I was jolted out of my morning fog at 8 a.m. Mass when the deacon offered this petition:
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Missionaries of Charity say their staffers in Haiti are safe

CALCUTTA, India – The Missionaries of Charity have expressed relief that their nuns working in Haiti are safe.
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Mount St. Joe basketball star is Notre Dame-bound

For four seasons, Eric Atkins has been a mainstay of Mount St. Joseph’s varsity basketball.
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New York doctor works to deliver care consistent with Catholic values

NEW YORK – “Catholic women in many communities feel they have no access to health care that is consistent with their values,” said the founding director of a new women’s medical center in midtown Manhattan that will provide “authentically Catholic” primary care, obstetrics, natural family planning and infertility treatment.
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Sister of Bon Secours takes ‘leap of faith’

Before she entered the Sisters of Bon Secours, Sister Bernadette “Bernie” Claps had a very successful career in social work, a nice town house that she lived in for 16 years and a great network of friends and colleagues. She had reached her 50s, loved life and thought for sure she was “pretty much settled.”
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Silence is consent on health care reform

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien released the following statement Dec. 24, after the U.S. Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill:
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Father Ward to head Edgewood parish

After nearly a decade as pastor of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk, Father John B. Ward is taking a new assignment as pastor of Prince of Peace in Edgewood effective Jan. 1.
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Estevez’s latest film about a father’s journey along Way of St. James

WASHINGTON - Actor and director Emilio Estevez, once a member of the 1980s “Brat Pack” of young Hollywood stars, is as of late a director, most recently of “The Way,” which stars his father, Martin Sheen. The movie deals with a man (Sheen) who completes a walk along the Camino de Santiago in Spain -...
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‘It’s not easy being green,’ but it’s part of God’s plan, says pope

VATICAN CITY – Visiting Australia in July gave Pope Benedict XVI an opportunity to develop further his creation morality, which he first explained in the northern Italian Alps a year ago.
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FBI report says religion not exempt from being target of hate crimes

WASHINGTON – According to a recent FBI report, religious groups are not exempt from being targets of hatred.
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Conscience rights should unite both sides on abortion, cardinal says

WASHINGTON – Protecting the conscience rights of health care providers should be an issue on which both supporters and opponents of abortion can agree, Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia said in a letter to members of Congress.
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Magliano not quite right

Tony Magliano (CR, Dec. 10) makes a plea for Catholics to get off the sidelines of the health care debate. He frames it as a “life-and death struggle”. Life, I presume, is the good that will come from its passage; death is the abortion and end of life provisions currently within it. He states that...
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