Synod, saints, shroud all on papal calendar for 2010

VATICAN CITY – As Pope Benedict XVI says goodbye to 2009, his 2010 calendar is already being filled.
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University buys former corporate property to expand research institute

DAYTON, Ohio – With the purchase of 115 acres, the University of Dayton plans to move its expanding research institute into a building that formerly housed the world headquarters of a global technology company.
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Catholics in northwestern Vietnam celebrate Christmas freely

YEN BAI, Vietnam – Catholics in three northwestern provinces of Vietnam were able to celebrate Christmas freely amid signs of a growing thaw in church-government relations.
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Nashville Diocese establishes Tennessee’s first all-Hispanic parish

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Just two years after he blessed Our Lady of Guadalupe Church as a mission of St. Edward Parish, Nashville Bishop David R. Choby dedicated it as the first independent Hispanic parish in Tennessee.
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Franciscan Holy Land official is confident about movement toward peace

JERUSALEM – Although a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians may not be reached in 2010, Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, said he believed there would be movement in that direction.
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Extension Society commits $3 million to seminarian education

CHICAGO – The Catholic Church Extension Society has awarded more than $3 million in grants to educate 509 seminarians from the most underfunded dioceses in the United States during the 2010 fiscal year.
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Pope Benedict XVI confers honorary title of Monsignor on nine Baltimore priests

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, archbishop of Baltimore, announced Dec. 30 that Pope Benedict XVI has conferred the honorary title of Monsignor on the following nine priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore:
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Father Ward to head Edgewood parish

After nearly a decade as pastor of Our Lady of Hope in Dundalk, Father John B. Ward is taking a new assignment as pastor of Prince of Peace in Edgewood effective Jan. 1.
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Bishop says Nazareth Christians joyful about find of Jesus-era house

JERUSALEM – Auxiliary Bishop Giacinto-Boulos Marcuzzo of Jerusalem said the Christian community in Nazareth was joyful at the recent discovery of the remains of a first-century dwelling.
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Faith helps where economy falters in Oregon lumber towns

PORTLAND, Ore. – In the heyday of Santiam Canyon’s lumber enterprise, laborers without college degrees could work at any of eight or nine mills, supporting families of four, five or six.
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2009 in Review: Apostolic visitation of US women religious moves toward 2010 visits

WASHINGTON – The apostolic visitation of U.S. religious communities of women continued to move forward as 2009 came to a close with plans being drawn up for visits to congregations by official representatives of the church to begin in the spring.
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