Pope confirms he plans to visit the Holy Land in May

VATICAN CITY – Meeting American Jewish leaders who were on their way to Israel, Pope Benedict XVI announced Feb. 12 that he, too, was preparing to visit the Holy Land.
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Pope says Holocaust denial is ‘intolerable, unacceptable’

VATICAN CITY – Denying or minimizing the Holocaust “is intolerable and altogether unacceptable,” Pope Benedict XVI told a group of U.S. Jewish leaders.
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USCCB, CRS seek 1 million Catholics for global poverty initiative

WASHINGTON – Catholics across a broad spectrum of the church are being mobilized in a renewed effort to fight global poverty.
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Seminarians serve as sports chaplains at Mount St. Mary’s

Coaches may be charged with making sure athletes perform at their very best at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, but it’s seminarians who help nurture their spiritual well-being.
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Catholic colleges’ spirit of service leads graduates to Peace Corps

WASHINGTON – Jesuit-run Georgetown University has created a culture that helps students understand that serving others and being committed to something larger than themselves is important in life, according to one school official.
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Notre Dame offers prescription for shortage of pharmacists

Pharmacists do a whole lot more than fill prescriptions, and there’s greater demand for them now than ever before.
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Education meetings begin with sobering statistics

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien delivered sobering statistics of declining enrollment in Catholic schools Feb. 10 during a consultation meeting with more than 100 parish priests and pastoral life directors.
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Vatican conference will give intelligent design critical study

VATICAN CITY – An upcoming Vatican-sponsored conference on evolution will include critical study of the theory of intelligent design, which, organizers said, represents poor theology and science.
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Australian archbishop pledges church’s support to wildfire victims

CANBERRA, Australia – The head of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference said the Catholic Church would lend both spiritual and practical support to families victimized by a series of wildfires that left more than 180 dead in Victoria state.
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Hospitals won’t comply with unjust laws and won’t close, bishop says

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The Catholic Health Association’s board of trustees recently reaffirmed its opposition to any attempts by Congress or President Barack Obama to broaden abortion access and its commitment to keep Catholic hospitals open, Bishop Robert N. Lynch of St. Petersburg said in a Feb. 6 blog entry.
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Father John Nissel, S.J.

A funeral Mass for Jesuit Father John Nissel, a Baltimore native who served as a missionary in Japan, was held Jan. 28 at St. Ignatius Church on the campus of Sophia University in Tokyo. A memorial service will be held March 21 at 10 a.m. at St. Agnes Church in Catonsville. Father Nissel died Jan....
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