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January 19, 2012

Wall Street lawyer gave up high finance for death-row chaplaincy

WASHINGTON – Dale Recinella played the financing game like a fiddle, even working through Christmas one year to secure the complex arrangements to finance a new stadium for football’s Miami Dolphins.
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Vatican norms insist on ‘generous’ approval for use of Tridentine rite

VATICAN CITY – A new Vatican instruction calls on local bishops and pastors to respond generously to Catholics who seek celebration of the Mass according to the 1962 Roman Missal, commonly known as the Tridentine rite.
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House speaker challenged to uphold church’s teaching on the poor

WASHINGTON – More than 70 Catholic scholars and others have challenged Republican House Speaker John Boehner, a product of Catholic schools in his native Ohio, to uphold the church’s teaching on support for the poor.
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Parish ‘resurrects’ diseased tree by making crosses from its wood

READING, Pa. – St. Margaret Parish in Reading long enjoyed the shade of its 125-year-old giant elm tree.
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Mexican immigration officials fired in probe of migrant abductions

MEXICO CITY – The Interior Ministry fired seven top officials in charge of immigration matters in regions where the abduction of undocumented migrants by organized gangs has been rampant and local officials increasingly are being implicated as complicit in the crimes.
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Human rights’ report lists Vatican for failure to protect children

VATICAN CITY – Amnesty International named the Vatican in its annual report on human rights’ concerns for not sufficiently complying with international mandates on protecting children from abuse.
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Mount St. Joseph grad to call the Preakness

“He is well known around the Mount for his impersonations of teachers and during his spare time, you can most likely find him at the race track.”
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Vatican asked Australian bishop to resign six times before his removal

PERTH, Australia – Toowoomba Bishop William Morris was asked to resign six times by three Vatican congregations and Pope Benedict XVI before the pontiff finally insisted that he leave office May 2, said documents obtained by The Record, Perth archdiocesan newspaper.
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Sexuality is God-given gift for communicating true love, pope says

VATICAN CITY – The human body is a God-given instrument for communicating love, although it also can be used to inflict harm on others or for one’s own selfish pleasure, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Pelosi drops objection to Oregon Jesuit as House chaplain

WASHINGTON – House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has dropped her objections to House Speaker John Boehner’s intended nomination of an Oregon Jesuit priest as the next chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Catholic bishop says Egyptian police must respond quicker to violence

LONDON – Egyptian police must act more quickly against Muslim rioters, a Catholic bishop said after 12 people were killed and two churches burned in a night of violence.
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Archbishop to ordain 14 permanent deacons May 14

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will ordain 14 men to the permanent diaconate May 14 during a 10 a.m. Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
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