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January 19, 2012

Workers say even after decades, AIDS continues to challenge church

VIENNA – After three decades in which the AIDS pandemic has ravaged lives and communities around the globe, those struggling against the disease at the grass roots say AIDS continues to present difficult challenges to the Catholic Church.

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January 19, 2012

Apostolic Signature upholds right of bishops to close any parish

WASHINGTON - Canon law – the legal rules that guide church operations and decision-making – allows a local bishop to close any parish as long as his decision is made with the best interests of the entire diocese in mind.

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January 19, 2012

Airborne!

Forty years ago, I became a chaplain in the United States Army. That fact came home to me as I prepared a talk to be given last Saturday at Fort Myer, Va., to past and present members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade, the unit I served with in Vietnam in 1971.

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January 19, 2012

Take charge of your attitude

In the midst of the intense heat in mid-July I heard a line that reflected both good advice for coping with the heat, as well as good advice for coping with life. Allow me to give some background.

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January 19, 2012

Father Boadt, a leading scholar and former head of Paulist Press, dies

MAHWAH, N.J. – Paulist Father Lawrence Boadt, a leading Catholic biblical scholar and former CEO and president of Paulist Press, died at his residence in Mahwah July 24 after a long battle with cancer. He was 67.

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January 19, 2012

St. Louis woman’s cancer cure could be miracle for Blessed Chaminade

ST. LOUIS – Rachel Lozano sometimes feels a sense of disbelief that she could owe her life to a miracle.

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January 19, 2012

New Irish bishop says abuse scandal made church look in mirror

DUBLIN – In the wake of a series of clerical child abuse scandals, the country’s newest prelate, Bishop Liam S. MacDaid of Clogher, called on the people of his diocese to join him in “a repentant return to the well of salvation.”

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January 19, 2012

New division created in Department of Evangelization

Father John E. Hurley has a vision for the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s newly formed Department of Evangelization that is quickly taking shape.

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January 19, 2012

Rise in soldiers’ deaths hits close to home for Fort Campbell families

FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – At the July 21 Eagle Remembrance Ceremony for nine fallen Fort Campbell soldiers, families of those who made the ultimate sacrifice paused in front of portraits of their loved ones to embrace and wipe away tears while members of the standing room only crowd did the same.

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January 19, 2012

Papal charity donates $250,000 for Haitian school reconstruction

VATICAN CITY – A papal charity donated $250,000 for the reconstruction of a school in Haiti and as a sign of Pope Benedict XVI’s concern for the earthquake-devastated population.

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January 19, 2012

CRS raises awareness on rape in Congo

More than two years ago, a Congolese woman in her 40s was attacked and raped on her way home from selling produce at an Idjwi market. When she told her husband, they went to the village chief, who scolded the woman for resisting her two attackers.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore maternity home suspends operations because of finances

Sparrow House, Baltimore’s only maternity home for women in crisis pregnancies, suspended operations July 1 – a victim of a decline in financial support. The four women living at the house were relocated to other maternity homes throughout the state.

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