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January 19, 2012

Ms. Gillespie Goes To Washington: Loyola graduate working for House Speaker Boehner

Two days after she graduated from Baltimore’s Loyola University Maryland May 21, Maura Gillespie was working for the third most powerful person in the United States.

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January 19, 2012

Assisted-suicide advocate Jack Kevorkian dies at age 83

WASHINGTON – Jack Kevorkian, dubbed “Dr. Death” for his longtime advocacy of assisted suicide and his role in assisting in the deaths of 130 people, died June 3 at age 83 in a hospital in the Detroit area.

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January 19, 2012

Pope urges nations to promote moral education, protect family, life

ZAGREB, Croatia – Pope Benedict XVI used his apostolic journey to the Croatian capital to encourage nations to build their communities on Christian values and to support the traditional family and the sanctity of life.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican official urges corporate responsibility, protection of women

VATICAN CITY - Multinational corporations have often ignored human rights, environmental regulations and labor laws in their business practices around the world, causing “exceptional damage” in underdeveloped countries, a Vatican official said

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January 19, 2012

Initiative launched to share Christian, Jewish, Muslim pulpits

WASHINGTON – It will happen for just one Sunday in June, but on that day, dozens of houses of worship across the United States will open their pulpits to clergy from the other two Abrahamic faiths to read from their scriptures.

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January 19, 2012

Norbertine priest honored for a lifetime dedicated to catechetics

DE PERE, Wis. – Through all his years as an author and as an educator, Norbertine Father Alfred McBride has invited people to grow in their faith and in their relationship with God.

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January 19, 2012

Church must find more effective ways to evangelize, says pope

VATICAN CITY – New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said.

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January 19, 2012

Belgian abuse victims file class-action suit against church

GHENT, Belgium – More than five dozen victims of clergy sexual abuse have filed a class-action suit against the Catholic Church – including the Holy See – for failing to prevent the abuse.

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January 19, 2012

U.S.-based child protection expert says Irish church at ‘tipping point’

DUBLIN – A leading international expert on child protection warned that the Catholic Church in Ireland is at “tipping point” and appealed for bishops and religious superiors to fully cooperate with the church’s own watchdog.

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January 19, 2012

Famed Kentucky abbey part of Trappists’ effort to promote vocations

TRAPPIST, Ky. – Since the 1940s when acclaimed writer and contemplative Father Thomas Merton drew the world’s attention to the Trappists’ Abbey of Gethsemani in Nelson County, men have come from around the world to join in its ritual life of prayer and work.

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January 19, 2012

John Jay report not just about mistakes in 1960s, says sex abuse expert

WASHINGTON – Even before the report examining the causes and context of clergy sexual abuse in the United States was released May 18, media reports keenly honed in on one possible cause of abuse cited in the study: the social upheaval of the 1960s.

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January 19, 2012

June deemed Abortion and All Acts of Violence Awareness Month

NEW YORK – The National Black Catholic Apostolate for Life has declared the month of June to be Abortion and All Acts of Violence Awareness Month.

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