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Champion of justice

During this Black Catholic History Month, it is fitting to acknowledge a woman marked by faith and who is not afraid to allow God to use her in the ministry of social justice within the judicial arena.
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Vatican says Anglican document delay not due to married priests issue

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has denied that the delay in publishing the apostolic constitution on Anglicans seeking admission to the Catholic Church has been caused by an internal Vatican debate over admitting married priests.
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Iraq war widow is Baltimore native

When Donna Gilmore looked at her newborn grandson, Cornell Winston Gilmore III, this past September, she thought about her husband.
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Pope will travel to northern Italy in May to see Shroud of Turin

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will join hundreds of thousands of pilgrims traveling to northern Italy in 2010 to see the Shroud of Turin, which many believe is the burial cloth of Christ.
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Officials in Chinese province continue to pressure, detain priests

HONG KONG – Local officials in China’s Hebei province continue to pressure priests to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
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Harford associate pastor: Embracing the ‘universality’ of the Church

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien received a community of Episcopal sisters and their chaplain into the Catholic Church in September, the liturgy was especially meaningful for Father Stephen Sutton.
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Promoting right to life requires fighting world hunger, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Defending the right to life requires promoting and establishing food security, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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In Rome, at home, we are Catholic

On most days in Rome, a haze settles over the city, and the din of traffic seems everywhere. On most Saturday evenings, such as the night before the canonization of five new saints, a peacefulness overtakes the Via della Conciliazione, the broad street leading to St. Peter’s Square.
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Inaugural Illuminate women’s conference attracts hundreds

Martha and Mary would have felt at home with the 300 women gathered at the feet of a fleet of teachers at the first Illuminate Women’s Conference Oct. 10, held at St. John Parish in Westminster.
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Major concerns remain unresolved in health reform bills, bishops say

WASHINGTON – None of the major health reform bills before Congress adequately addresses the concerns raised by the U.S. bishops in the areas of abortion, conscience protection, immigrants and affordability, said the heads of three major committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops Oct. 8.
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Spain’s bishops urge mass protest against abortion legislation

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s Catholic bishops are urging church members to protest abortion legislation that would allow girls as young as 16 to terminate pregnancies without parental consent.
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