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When Wayne Hipley speaks, parents listen – especially worried, clueless parents.

Vatican astronomer hunts for faith in Silicon Valley

VATICAN CITY – Engineers, scientists, and computer whizzes study or manipulate nature and machines to find sound, logical solutions to nagging questions and everyday problems.

Quintuplets teach couple lesson in patience

OLATHE, Kan. – It takes a village to raise a child. When Kate and David Brooks found out they were expecting for the second time, they had no idea how true those words would become for their family. Shortly thereafter, the couple found out that Kate was carrying not one, but five babies. Quintuplets.

CCHD collection to help the poor

As Americans gather around dining room tables this November to celebrate the feast of Thanksgiving, more than 37 million people across the United States will be living in poverty.

Vespers service celebrates music, liturgical ministers

St. Cecilia Evening Vespers, which will include a blessing of liturgical and music ministers, will be held at 7 p.m. on Nov. 11 at the Marikle Chapel at the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore.

Abuse reports in public schools are wake-up call

WASHINGTON – A recent series by The Associated Press illustrating the “widespread” extent of sexual abuse in the nation’s public schools and the failure of those in authority to stop it is a serious wake-up call for the nation say some officials.

Catholic university strengthens adobe homes in Peru

PACHACUTEC, Peru – Higinia Rupay remembers her terror as the ground began to heave and bricks from the neighbor’s wall crashed through the flimsy roof of her home.

Chaldean Catholics said key to boycott of Miller

DETROIT – Chaldean Catholic Bishop Ibrahim N. Ibrahim credited the support of Chaldean Catholics in metro Detroit for the success of a boycott of Miller Brewing Co. products that he said resulted in the company pledging to never again support events that insult and offend religious sensibilities.

Jesuit: Globalization is not just economics

TORONTO – If globalization is necessary and inevitable, then economic progress everywhere is connected ethically to development in countries like Zambia, said a prominent U.S. Jesuit.

Vatican official hopes Olympics will promote rights

UNITED NATIONS – A Vatican official said he hoped the 2008 Olympic Games in China would help promote international peace and respect for human rights.

Months after quake, cities see little progress

PISCO, Peru – At first glance, Freddy Sanchez appears to be one of the lucky ones. When a magnitude 8 earthquake struck this fishing port, his house remained standing while many of his neighbors’ homes and the church across the street collapsed.

Dead could be in purgatory, says Vatican official