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2 hrs ago | San Bernardino County Sun

Salvadorans to help with gang truce in Honduras

Two Salvadorans who mediated in a gang truce in their country that cut the homicide rate by at least 50 percent met Monday with gang leaders in Honduras, where they will help do the same.

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Related Topix: Honduras, World News, Religion

6 hrs ago | The Daily News Journal

Pope Francis after 100 days: A contrast to Benedict

VATICAN CITY a?? One-hundred days after becoming the first non-European pope since the eighth century, the main difference between Francis and his European predecessors is one more of style than of concrete action.

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Related Topix: Pope Benedict XVI, Religion

10 hrs ago | Denver Post

Pueblo prepares for resignation of Catholic bishop

The Cuban-born bishop was Pueblo's fourth bishop, serving there since 2009. The Pueblo Diocese covers 48,000 square miles and 53 parishes.

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14 hrs ago | The American Spectator

Can Liturgical Music Be Saved?

Remember the power ballad? It was a subgenre of rock music pioneered by Boston in 1976 and Styx a year later.

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18 hrs ago | The Times of Israel

Catholic activist killed for saving Jews set for sainthood

Rome - An Italian Catholic activist and journalist who was declared a Righteous Gentile for saving Jewish lives during World War II has formally been put on the road to sainthood by the Roman Catholic church.

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

WFMY 2 Greensboro

Youngest Inmate On Death Row To Leave Prison

That made the Gary, Ind., teen the youngest person ever in the state to face the death penalty.

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Related Topix: Prison, Death Penalty, Gary, IN, Religion

WTAQ-AM Green Bay

GB Diocese finds claim of priest abuse unsubstantiated

The diocese received the allegation of abuse of a minor against Father Justin Werner, a senior priest, back on April 20. The abuse, which Fr.

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WHDH

Gunman shoots man during Catholic mass in Utah

Police say a gunman walked into a Catholic church and shot a man in the back of the head during Mass on Sunday in Ogden.

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Nanaimo Daily News

US woman whose death sentence at age 16 drew global protests to be released from prison

An Indiana woman put on death row at age 16 for killing an elderly Bible school teacher is being released.

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Related Topix: Prison, Religion

The Daily Star

Three killed by explosion at Tanzanian opposition party rally

Wounded people lie on the ground as Roman Catholic nuns run for cover after a blast at the St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Roman Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania Sunday, May 5, 2013.

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Related Topix: Explosion, Religion, World News, Tanzania, South Africa

WJLA-TV Arlington

D.C. welcomes six new Catholic priests

Washington's Archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, ordained the six men on Saturday during a ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in northeast Washington.

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DFW Catholic

The End Of Catholic Schools?

Picture this: It wasn't easy, but you and your husband were able to set aside enough money so that you could remove your ten-year-old daughter from the public school and enroll her at a Catholic school where you expected her to get a good education in a wholesome moral environment.

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Related Topix: Religion, Law, Employment / Labor Law

Sat Jun 15, 2013

TwinCities

Teacher at Catholic school loses job over ex-husband's sins

A veteran teacher at a Catholic school has lost her job because school officials are worried her ex-husband, now serving a jail sentence for domestic abuse and stalking, will pose a danger to students and teachers when he is released.

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Related Topix: Domestic Violence (Domestic Abuse), Law, El Cajon, CA, Religion

My Mother Lode

Stockton bishop says diocese is almost out of cash

The Roman Catholic bishop of Stockton is warning parishioners that his diocese might run out of money before it has paid damages to all of the people who have sued over clergy sex abuse.

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Oxford Times

It's a marathon of Biblical proportions

The priest, of St Peter's Catholic Church, in Abbey Street, Eynsham, will be reading aloud as much of the Bible as possible in one day.

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Ledger-Enquirer.com

Pope taps trusted prelate to oversee Vatican bank

It's a key job that has been left vacant since 2011: The prelate oversees the bank's activities, attends its board meetings and, critically, has access to all its documentation.

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Related Topix: Pope Benedict XVI, Religion

Tony's Kansas City

TKC Breaking News!!! Snap Cites Catholic Feud Calling Out Kansas City Bishop Finn

Check the latest missive from SNAP citing the ongoing Catholic Church turmoil in the aftermath of a Kansas City sex scandal.

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Related Topix: Religion, Sex Scandal, Independence, MO

Fri Jun 14, 2013

The Huffington Post

Obama To Fill Key Vatican Post

The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will nominate Ken Hackett, the former president of Catholic Relief Services to be the United States' ambassador to the Vatican.

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Related Topix: US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Religion, University of Notre Dame

Free Republic

If Pelosi’s a “Practicing Catholic” Why ...

House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi made more eye-rolling comments yesterday when she called defending legal abortions to the point of opposing a late-term abortion ban 'sacred ground.'

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Seattle Times

Obama taps finance director as envoy to Denmark

President Barack Obama is tapping his former campaign finance chairman, an HBO executive and the head of a major Catholic charity to be U.S. ambassadors.

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Related Topix: 2012 Presidential Election, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Religion