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Pope says online social networks can help spread the Gospel

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI invited Christians to join online social networks in order to spread the Gospel through digital media and discover “an entirely new world of potential friendships.”
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Subway ads in New York offer riders first step to heal after abortion

NEW YORK – Riders on 1,000 New York City subway cars are seeing advertising messages aimed at being a first step toward healing for the many people affected by abortion.
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Bishop discusses finding Jesus in HIV/AIDS care

KAMPALA, Uganda – Although no easy answers can be found in the suffering of people affected by HIV/AIDS, God is with them and their caregivers, said a South African bishop. “There are no easy answers to the suffering of the people, and those who tell the poor and the sick that there is a cure...
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Bishops condemn bomb blast in Manila, say it could be part of plot

MANILA, Philippines – Catholic bishops have condemned a deadly bomb attack on a bus in Manila’s business district, warning it could have been an attempt to destabilize the government.
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Baltimore woman professes final vows

Sister Maria del Fiat Miola was studying abroad in Italy during her junior year at Columbia University when she encountered a group of women at St. Peter’s Square who would change her life.
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Italian bishops insist on air time to rebut BBC program

VATICAN CITY – Church officials must have an opportunity to comment on-air if Italy’s state-run television airs a British documentary about the priest sex abuse crisis, said an Italian bishops’ conference official. “We do not want any censorship,” Bishop Giuseppe Betori, general secretary of the Italian bishops’ conference, told reporters May 22 in the midst...
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Faith leaders hold ‘service of cleansing, healing’ at site of shooting

TUCSON, Ariz. – Gathering at the site of the Jan. 8 mass shooting outside a Tucson Safeway, a group of community faith leaders performed “a service of cleansing and healing” Jan. 20, sprinkling the area with blessed water “to reverence and reclaim the space.”
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Spanish prelates say class teaches alternatives to traditional values

MADRID, Spain – Spanish church leaders have said a new government-mandated class teaches alternatives to traditional values.
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Mission Health Partners names executive director

Representatives of St. Agnes HealthCare in Baltimore and St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson announced May 16 that Patrick F. Mutch has been chosen as executive director of Mission Health Partners, the multi-institutional health-care collaborative formed by two Baltimore hospitals early this year. Mr. Mutch, a parishioner of St. Ann in Baltimore, will be responsible...
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Vatican did not tell bishops to cover up abuse cases, spokesman says

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official downplayed a 1997 Vatican letter to Irish bishops about handling cases of clerical sex abuse, saying the letter did not tell bishops to keep the cases secret from the police.
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Greed helped cause global financial crisis, say two Vatican officials

VATICAN CITY – The global financial crisis has been caused in part by greed and is likely to have grave repercussions on the world’s poor, said two Vatican officials.
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Loyola College names new vice president

Dr. Timothy Law Snyder, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Fairfield University in Connecticut has been named vice president for academic affairs at Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore. Beginning this summer, Dr. Snyder will oversee all academic functions at Loyola, including the operation of undergraduate and graduate programs in its two divisions....
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