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January 19, 2012

Year for Priests event draws requests from Catholics seeking change

ROME – As thousands of priests arrived in Rome for events marking the end of the Year for Priests, two other groups of Catholics arrived with some very specific requests.

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January 19, 2012

Jesuits urge Haitian government to make plans to fight hunger crisis

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haiti’s bishops and a group of Jesuits in the country called on the government to put in place short- and medium-term plans to address the hunger crisis driven by a hike in world food staples.

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January 19, 2012

Monsanto’s 475-ton seed donation challenged by Haitian peasants

WASHINGTON - Advocates for Haitian peasants said a U.S.-based company’s donation of up to 475 tons of hybrid vegetable seeds to aid Haitian farmers will harm the island-nation’s agriculture.

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January 19, 2012

Peruvian villagers fear eviction in Amazon land conflict

BARRANQUITA, Peru – The knock at Father Mario Bartolini’s door came a little after 8 p.m. April 10. On the porch stood Robert Romero Rios, his face creased with worry and his rubber boots caked with mud.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican supreme court upholds closing of 10 Boston parishes

WASHINGTON – The Vatican supreme court has denied the appeals of parishioners trying to save 10 parishes in the Archdiocese of Boston from closing, according to a spokesman for a group fighting the closures.

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January 19, 2012

Cardinal Keeler honored for resolving new Catholic-Jewish tensions

WASHINGTON – While presenting Cardinal William H. Keeler with a special honor April 14 in Washington, leaders of the Anti-Defamation League said the retired archbishop of Baltimore recently alleviated tensions between Jews and the Vatican.

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January 19, 2012

Justice attorney backs Vatican’s claim of immunity from abuse lawsuit

WASHINGTON – In one of two cases that seek to draw the Holy See into U.S. courts over liability for sexual abuse by priests, the Obama administration’s solicitor general said lower courts were wrong to conclude both that an abuser was acting within “the scope of his employment” and also that as his “employer,” the...

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January 19, 2012

Fire damages roof of St. Timothy parish center

WALKERSVILLE – Only a few months before St. Timothy, Walkersville, parishioners expected to occupy their new parish center, an April 9 fire may have delayed their plans.

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January 19, 2012

Back to the future? Reform may return Catholic health care to its roots

WASHINGTON – Although the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act will undoubtedly have profound consequences for the nation’s hospitals and physicians, its exact effects remain unclear – and dependent on rules still to be written.

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January 19, 2012

Five minutes with the pope

The Catholic Review posed the question, “If you had five minutes with Pope Benedict XVI, would what you say to him?”

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January 19, 2012

Catholic funeral said for groundbreaking singer-actress Lena Horne

NEW YORK – Lena Horne, the groundbreaking African-American singer-actress, received a Catholic funeral May 14 at a church on Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

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January 19, 2012

Speakers at memorial Mass recall Buckley’s deep faith

NEW YORK – Mourners remembered William F. Buckley Jr. at an April 4 memorial Mass as a man of deep faith and unfailing confidence in the Catholic Church who brought people to believe in God and inspired vocations to the priesthood.

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