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Abuse crisis has shown clerics how deeply victims are hurt, bishop says

WASHINGTON – Bishops in the United States have learned that the injury to victims of priestly sexual abuse “is deeper than nonvictims can imagine” said the chairman of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People.
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Kagan’s career in academia, administration to come under scrutiny

WASHINGTON – Solicitor General Elena Kagan, the nominee to replace Justice John Paul Stevens on the Supreme Court, probably will face Senate confirmation hearings in late June.
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Finance reform hampered by politics, says former US ambassador

VATICAN CITY – Regulation of the financial industry is hampered by the political pressure the financial institutions put on governments and politicians, said a Harvard law professor and former U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
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Q&A with Daniel Schuster

Daniel Schuster, owner of Schuster Concrete Construction, has been at the heart of many discussions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore lately. Following Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s March announcement of the consolidation of 13 schools, Schuster took to the radio airwaves for advertisements critical of the decision
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Atlanta archbishop: Despite discouragement, it’s ‘high season’ for ecumenism

TAMPA, Fla. – Despite disappointment and discouragement voiced over the slower pace of ecumenical talks than in decades past, Atlanta Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory offered his view that it is “high season” for the ecumenical movement during an April 20 address in Tampa.
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Parents in USCCB-commissioned poll express concern over media content

WASHINGTON – Parents are concerned about the content of the media to which their children are exposed and are eager to exert more control over that exposure.
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Legal minds debate whether Obama executive order on abortion will stick

WASHINGTON – One of the biggest questions remaining as implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act begins is whether the executive order on abortion funding signed by President Barack Obama will be effective in stopping any expanded use of taxpayer funds for abortion.
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Church will act against sex abuse, pope promises victims

VATICAN CITY – Recalling a recent meeting with victims of sex abuse by clergy, Pope Benedict XVI reiterated his promise that the church was doing everything it could to end abuse.
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Bishop Malooly issues a statement on the passing of Archbishop Borders

April 19, 2010 --- (Wilmington, DE) --- The following is a statement from the Most Rev. W. Francis Malooly, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington, on the passing to eternal life of the Most Rev. William D. Borders, retired Archbishop of Baltimore:
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Harford parishioner makes a clean sweep

Growing up as a parishioner of St. Patrick, Havre de Grace, Mary Ann Lisanti learned to have a deep appreciation for the beauty of creation around her.
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Latin America begins feeling ripples of clergy sexual abuse crisis

LIMA, Peru - As clergy sex abuse scandals in Europe made headlines worldwide, bishops in Latin America expressed support for Pope Benedict XVI. But observers say it is just a matter of time before the upheaval that has struck the United States and Europe hits Latin America.
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Priest apologizes for not recalling letter about halting Murphy trial

ANCHORAGE, Alaska – A priest who was involved in the canonical trial of a priest accused of abusing deaf children decades ago has admitted he made a mistake when he said then-Milwaukee Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland never told him to halt the trial.
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