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Updated: March 11th, 2010
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CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Thursday, 11 March 2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Second Vatican Council's renewal of the Catholic Church was a sign of progress, not a sign of repudiating the past, Pope Benedict XVI said. "We know that after the Second Vatican Council some people were convinced that everything was new, that there was a new church, that the pre-conciliar church was finished and that we would have a completely different church," the pope said during his general audience ...
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CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Wednesday, 10 March 2010
ORLANDO, Fla. (CNS) — About 100 traditionalist Anglican parishes in the United States have decided to join the Catholic Church as a group. Meeting in Orlando, the House of Bishops of the Anglican Church in America voted to seek entry...
CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Tuesday, 09 March 2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — The Lenten call to conversion is not an attempt to make people feel bad about themselves, but to promote their true good, which is eternal life, Pope Benedict XVI said. Celebrating Mass March 7 at the Rome parish...
Monday, 08 March 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS) — When San Francisco passed an ordinance more than 13 years ago requiring agencies that contract with the city to provide spousal benefits to employees' domestic partners, then-Archbishop William J. Levada asked for a...
CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICE
Sunday, 07 March 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS) — U.S. bishops have called on the Senate to support the extension of favorable trade status for Haitian-made garments. In a Feb. 19 letter to senators, Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the U.S. b...
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CINDY WOODEN, Catholic News Service
Saturday, 06 March 2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Exceptions to celibacy for priests in the Roman Catholic Church can be puzzling, including for young priests enthusiastic about their vocation. The Pontifical Uni...
JOEUN LEE, Catholic News Service
Friday, 05 March 2010
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Church leaders in Pakistan have criticized their government for showing a "lethargic attitude" toward attacks on religious minorities. The government has, in effe...
Thursday, 04 March 2010
WASHINGTON (CNS) — New evidence of brain activity in patients judged to be in a persistent vegetative state should make physicians and neurologists more cautious in arriving at such ju...

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