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Clerical abuse expert welcomes 'marked drop' in US claims

06:20 pm | ROME, ITALY, Feb 7, 2012 (CNA/EWTN News).- One of the Catholic Church’s leading experts on clerical abuse says he welcomes a significant drop in the number of cases being reported in the United States – but won’t rest until that figure reaches zero. 
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Abuse survivor praises Pope for listening to victims

An Irish woman who was abused by a priest in her youth told an international symposium on clerical abuse that Pope Benedict is a model of how to listen to victims.
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Archdiocese of Panama urges conflict resolution with local tribe

The Archdiocese of Panama City called for dialogue to resolve the violence between the government and the local Gnöbe bugle Indian tribe which has left one person killed and 42 wounded.
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Appeals court rules Prop. 8 unconstitutional

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that California’s Proposition 8 unconstitutionally defined marriage as a union between a man and a woman, clearing the way for a possible U.S. Supreme Court hearing on “gay marriage.”
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Pope says renewal requires ‘Christ-like’ response to abuse

Pope Benedict XVI called upon bishops to respond in a “Christ-like” manner to clerical abuse as part of a “profound renewal” of the Church.
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Army silences military archbishop on contraception mandate

The archbishop who oversees American Catholic military chaplains worldwide claims the U.S. Army violated his rights by stifling a pastoral letter condemning the Obama administration's contraception mandate.
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Pope urges faithful to overcome selfishness with Lenten charity

The Catholic Church must demonstrate the power of love and show the limitations of an individualistic worldview, Pope Benedict XVI taught in a Lenten message released two weeks before Ash Wednesday.
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Peruvian bishop says Church will always reject abortion

The president of the Peruvian bishops' conference says the Church will always defend life and reject abortion even if this stance conflicts with society.
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Chapter Thirty-Two - Elizabeth: A Holy Land Pilgrimage

by Cheryl Dickow

Elizabeth: A Holy Land Pilgrimage is available in paperback and on kindle and is being reprinted on Catholic News Agency with author’s permission. Cheryl’s non-fiction book is called Our...
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The Catholic Church and the Girl Scouts: A scandalous mess

by Mary Hasson

Sometimes even the Washington Post gets it right. Last week the pastor of St. Timothy’s Catholic Church in Chantilly, Virginia, made national news. He banned the Girl Scouts from his parish...
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The silent treatment

by Anthony Buono

Have you ever given or received the silent treatment? Chances are good that most of you have. I think this AT&T commercial about the silent treatment is very clever and will give you a good...
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Religious liberty and the well-formed Catholic

by Sr. Joan L. Roccasalvo, C.S.J.

In 1937, Robert M. Hutchins, then the president of the University of Chicago praised the Catholic Church as having “the longest intellectual tradition in any institution in the contemporary...
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February 8, 2012

Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time

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Mk 7,14-23

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First Reading:: 1 Kings 8:22-23, 27-30
Gospel:: Mk 7:1-13

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St. Josephine Bakhita »

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Mk 7,14-23

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