New ‘Monologues’ play offers hope for healing after abortion

WASHINGTON – A play created by a member of a Minnesota theater company aims to be an alternative to “The Vagina Monologues,” a popular campus play but one that is often criticized for its sexual explicitness.
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Weigel shouldn’t dismiss Obama aspirations

Today, when the faintest wisp of optimism is a gift, it’s more than disappointing to read George Weigel, one of the nation’s sharpest Catholic minds, dismiss many of the president’s national aspirations as a “familiar litany of liberal … shibboleths.” (CR, April 23). I would prefer: Aspirations for peace yet unrealized, but worth the striving!
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Archbishop O’Brien leads pilgrimage to national shrine

Albert Vojik was awestruck as he stared at the gigantic mosaic of Christ in Majesty that looked down from the great dome of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
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‘Faith in flux’ study shows reasons why people leave their religions

WASHINGTON – On the heels of a study of the U.S. “religious landscape” released last year that showed a quarter of Americans had changed faiths, a follow-up survey has found an even greater rate of “Faith in Flux,” as the latest report is called.
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Pope creates five saints, says they hold lessons for economic crisis

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI canonized five new saints and said their dedication to the Eucharist, the poor and the world of work made them models for today’s Christians in an era of economic crisis.
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Paraguayan president apologizes for fathering three women’s children

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, a former Catholic bishop facing accusations that he fathered children with three women, asked the country’s forgiveness but said he would not resign.
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Consistent pro-life message needs re-work

Archbishop O’Brien wrote (CR, April 23) of the “powerful witness of the Church’s consistent pro-life voice” because the legislature passed a law restricting the application of the death penalty. I do not see the law coming from a powerful pro-life witness, but rather see the legislature extending some professional courtesy to murderers on death row....
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America is certainly a Christian nation

George Weigel (CR, April 23) correctly takes issue with President Barack Obama’s assertion, “that America is not a Christian nation.” However, Mr. Weigel incorrectly falls into the trap of President Obama’s doublespeak by accepting his use of the word nation and concludes that Obama’s statement is “true in one sense: the U.S. government does not...
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Roommates remember Parente as bigger than life

A message flashed across the screen of Julieanne Malley’s cell phone late last week. All she saw was that the sender was “Stephanie”
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Bishop Madden meets with city police commissioner

Auxiliary Bishop Denis J. Madden told Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III that the Archdiocese of Baltimore will continue to take a stand against violence in the streets.
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Catholic Review claims 15 awards

The Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association’s annual awards convention April 23-24 at Westin BWI Hotel in Linthicum highlighted The Catholic Review’s excellence.
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Archdiocese, parishes reach out to those in emotional pain

From Canton to Parkville, pastors say they are seeing parishioners struggle daily with economic issues.
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