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Cuban Bishops’ Aide: Time for Change With US

March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A spokesman of the Cuban bishops’ conference says he thinks “it’s time for a change” in Cuba-United States relations as both countries have new presidents.
Orlando Márquez in an editorial in the Havana diocese’s newspaper “Palabra Nueva” (New Word), urged both Raúl Castro and Barack Obama to get past the distance of recent [...]

Mar

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Kids Made-to-Order: Science Gone Awry

March 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment

A Los Angeles-based fertility clinic offering would-be parents a child made-to-order — complete with the desired skin tone or hair color — is an example of science when it is not put at the service of the good, says Bishop Elio Sgreccia.
The retired president of the Pontifical Academy for Life spoke to [...]

Mar

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Rome Marks Montana Death Penalty Vote

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A Montana state Senate decision to abolish the death penalty was marked in Rome on Monday — the Colosseum was lit up to celebrate another step toward the end of capital punishment.
The Senate’s decision last month still has to pass through the state’s House of Representatives and be signed by the governor [...]

Mar

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Truckers Considered a Type of “Vast Parish”

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Truckers face particular professional challenges, and thus have a special need for the Church, affirmed the secretary of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Travelers.
Archbishop Agostino Marchetto said this Monday in an address on the pastoral care of truckers in Europe, during a meeting organized by the European Association with tolled [...]

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Pope Urges Pastors to Uphold Faith’s Simplicity

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Benedict XVI is urging priests to know the hearts of their parishioners, and to help them discover the Word of God and put it into practice in their daily situations.
The Pope affirmed this in a meeting last Thursday with parish priests of the Diocese of Rome, a Lenten tradition, in which he [...]

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