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US Bishops Launch Pro-Life E-Mail Campaign

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U.S. bishops are encouraging Catholics to send e-mails to legislators in the second step of a national pro-life action plan.
The first step was a postcard campaign promoted by the U.S. bishops’ conference throughout all the dioceses in January, in which citizens appealed to legislators for pro-life policies.
The e-mail campaign has the goal [...]

Mar

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Angola Prepares for Benedict XVI Visit

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The bishop of Viana, Angola, said that Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit to his country this month has inspired a flurry of preparations and hopes for political and personal peace.
Bishop Joaquim Ferreira Lopes affirmed this in an interview published Thursday by the Portuguese news agency Ecclesia, in which he spoke about the [...]

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Pope Gives Pastoral Tips Faced to Economic Crisis

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Benedict XVI is urging priests to face the economic crisis by speaking out against avarice on a large scale, and forming justice in the hearts of all people.
The Pope affirmed this in a meeting Feb. 26 with parish priests of the Diocese of Rome, a Lenten tradition, in which he answered their [...]

Mar

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Moriah, Tabor, Calvary: Darkness Can Be Radiant

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Biblical Reflection for 2nd Sunday of Lent 2009
By Father Thomas Rosica, CSB
Moriah. Sinai. Nebo. Carmel. Horeb. Gilboa. Gerizim. Mount of Beatitudes. Tabor. Hermon. Zion. Mount of Olives. Calvary. Golgotha. Mountains are often used in the Bible as the stages of important encounters between God and his people. Though we may have [...]

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Boom and Bust

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Aging’s Impact on the Economy
By Father John Flynn, LC
Concerns over the environment have given birth control advocates a new lease of life.
Paul R. Ehrlich’s 1968 book “The Population Bomb” sparked off a wave of neo-Malthusian pressures to lower population growth, but as the years passed, and the foretold disasters failed to eventuate, enthusiasm for population [...]