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February 14, 2012
By Carol Glatz
ROME (CNS) – Catholic bishops should find out what is keeping sex abuse victims around the world from coming forward, said Bishop R. Daniel Conlon, chairman-elect of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on the Protection of Children and Young People.
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February 14, 2012
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -– As a sectarian conflict in Syria intensified, Pope Benedict XVI called on all Syrians to begin a process of dialogue and reminded the government of its duty to recognize its citizens’ legitimate demands.
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February 14, 2012
By Francis X. Rocca
ROME (CNS) – Cardinal-designate Timothy M. Dolan of New York said Feb. 13 that President Barack Obama’s revision to the contraceptive mandate in the health reform law did nothing to change the U.S. bishops’ opposition to what they regard as an unconstitutional infringement on religious liberty.
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February 14, 2012
By Simon Caldwell
MANCHESTER, England (CNS) – A “deeply intolerant” militant secularism is taking hold of Western societies, said a senior British government minister heading a delegation to the Vatican.
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February 13, 2012
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Love of God nurtures love of neighbor, especially in people with vocations to the priesthood or religious life, said Pope Benedict XVI in his message for the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. Continue reading →
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Feb. 8, 2012
By Bridget Kelly
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Poverty, violence, police corruption and disrespect for human life are mortally wounding Honduras, the country’s cardinal told the nation’s president and top government officials.
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February 7, 2012
By Mary Shovlain
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – In his Lenten message, Pope Benedict XVI called on the faithful to be concerned for one another and “not to remain isolated and indifferent” to the fate others.
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February 6, 2012
By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Wealthier religious orders should share their resources with struggling religious communities, said the prefect of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life.
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February 6, 2012
By Carol Glatz and Cindy Wooden
ROME (CNS) — A Vatican cardinal will lead a penitential vigil to show contrition for the sexual abuse of children by priests and for the actions of Catholic officials who shielded the perpetrators from justice.
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February 6, 2012
By Francis X. Rocca
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In an unusually public rebuke of a high-ranking colleague, Vatican officials dismissed as baseless the accusations of “corruption and abuse of power” made in letters by an archbishop who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States.
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