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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – The 400-year-old case of Galileo Galilei and the Inquisition still serves as a valid warning that scientists should not presume to teach the church about faith and that the church must approach scientific discoveries with great caution, said the prefect of the Vatican Secret Archives.
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A fourth-century image of St. Paul the Apostle that Vatican archeologists believe is the oldest in existence is seen on the walls of the Santa Thecla catacomb beneath Rome in a undated photo released June 29. Experts of the Pontifical Commission for Sacr ed Archeology made the discovery June 19 in the catacomb. (CNS photo/Pontifical Commission for Sacred Archeology, Reuters)
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Talk about a grand finale.
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U.S. President Barack Obama holds a roundtable briefing with journalists from the Catholic press and the Washington Post in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington July 2. The briefing was held in advance of the president’s scheduled meeting with Pope Benedict XVI July 10 at the Vatican. (CNS photo/Lawrence Jackson, White House)
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By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama told a round table of religion writers July 2 that he continues to be profoundly influenced by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago, whom he came to know when he was a community organizer in a project partially funded by the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.
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Mourners pray outside the boyhood home of pop star Michael Jackson in Gary, Ind., June 25. Jackson, the child star turned “King of Pop,” who set the world dancing but whose musical genius was overshadowed by a bizarre lifestyle and sex scandals, died June 25. He was 50. (CNS photo/Frank Polich, Reuters)
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By Carole Norris Greene
Catholic News Service
Some people are insisting there were two Michael Jacksons – the iconic entertainer and a bizarre, very troubled individual.
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – For more than 100 years, Catholic social teaching has tried to help people face the world’s social, political and economic challenges with the power of the Gospel.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – There is a growing “religion gap” between older Americans and those under 30, according to a new Pew Research Center Social & Demographic Trends survey.
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By Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A Catholic commissioner on the U.S. Commission for International Religious Freedom has been elected its chairman.
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WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and a representative of the Archdiocese of Washington expressed opposition in late June to a provision in President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget that would permit taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia.
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Supporters of Honduras’ ousted President Manuel Zelaya run after soldiers and police fired tear gas during a protest in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, June 29. Some 1,500 protesters, some of them masked and carrying sticks, taunted soldiers and burned tires just outside the gates of the presidential palace in a face-off with security forces. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A Catholic aid official expressed concern about human rights in the country in the wake of a military coup, which he called the expected outcome of a political crisis.
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By Jordan Gamble
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Torture survivors and advocates implored Congress June 25 to investigate allegations of military torture of war prisoners, saying that the U.S. must be an example for other countries in respect for human rights.
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By Catholic News Service
DUBLIN, Ireland – The world of cyberspace is causing real-world problems for a growing number of married couples, according to research conducted by ACCORD, the Irish bishops’ agency providing care and support for marriage.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – A common understanding of the role the bishop of Rome played in the united Christianity of the first millennium is essential for resolving the question of the primacy of the pope in a united church, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Actress Farrah Fawcett looks up during a tribute to Aaron Spelling during the 58th annual Primetime Emmy Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles in this Aug. 27, 2006, file photo. Fawcett died June 25 after a long battle with anal cancer. She was 62. (CNS photo/Mike Blake, Reuters
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By Paula J. Beaton
Catholic News Service
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Sister Patrice Floyd remembers actress Farrah Fawcett as “a little first-grader with pigtails” at Christ the King School in Corpus Christ, Fawcett’s hometown.
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By Catholic News Service
RICHMOND, Va. – Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion is constitutional, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in a 6-5 decision June 24.
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Pope Benedict XVI visits what is believed to be the tomb of St. Paul during a vespers service in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome June 28. Closing the year of St. Paul, the pope announced that tests done on the presumed tomb of St. Paul in the basilica seem to confirm that it is the tomb of the first-century apostle. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
ROME – Closing the year of St. Paul, Pope Benedict XVI announced that tests done on the presumed tomb of the Apostle revealed the presence of bone fragments from a human who lived between the first and second century.
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By John Thavis
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – After 12 months of special liturgies, conferences, Bible reflections, indulgences, concerts and pilgrimages, the Year of St. Paul has left the Apostle a more clearly defined figure on the Catholic landscape.
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Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., addresses the annual meeting of the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management in Philadelphia June 25. He told the audience that the church's great communications challenge today is to keep the interest of people when they have so many places to turn for information. (CNS photo/Robert Lisak, courtesy of National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management)
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PHILADELPHIA – The church’s great communications challenge today is to “keep the interest of people who have so many places to turn,” Bishop Gerald F. Kicanas of Tucson, Ariz., told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.
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By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – A legal expert from Jesuit-run Fordham University School of Law in New York was relieved the Supreme Court did not overturn the 2006 reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act, but he also believes the historic 1965 law was only given a stay.
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Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo speaks during an interview in Philadelphia June 18. She was in Philadelphia to promote “The Stoning of Soraya M.” and talk about the film and the significance the massive demonstrations in Iran. (CNS photo/Sarah Webb, Catholic Standard and Times)
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By Lou Baldwin
Catholic News Service
PHILADELPHIA – When Iranian-born actress Shohreh Aghdashloo was asked by co-director Cyrus Nowrasteh to consider the lead role in the movie “The Stoning of Soraya M.,” her immediate reaction was, “I’ve been waiting for this for 20 years.”
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By Carmen Blanco
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Despite growing numbers of Iraqi Christians fleeing their country to escape the violence and persecution, an Iraqi Dominican nun says she will remain in her country.
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By Mitch Finley
Catholic News Service
SPOKANE, Wash. – Five apple growers from northern Mexico paid a visit to their counterparts in western Washington and spoke to Catholic parishioners in the Spokane Diocese about their efforts to make a better living for themselves and local workers so they can stay home and not flee to the U.S. for jobs.
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By Catholic News Service
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – An African-American priest who graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1989 told the National Right to Life convention June 19 that he was “heartbroken” when he learned that Notre Dame planned to honor U.S. President Barack Obama at its 2009 commencement.
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In this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, a bluish nebula of glowing hydrogen expands out into the remains of a molecular cloud that collapsed to form massive stars. The former director of the Vatican Observatory, U.S. Jesuit Father George Coyne, sa id that life emerged on Earth through the process of stars caught in a cycle of collapsing and reforming. (CNS photo/NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team)
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By Carol Glatz
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Life emerged on earth thanks to a 12 billion-year-old process of stars caught in a cycle of collapsing, re-forming and collapsing again, said the former director of the Vatican Observatory.
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Sister Simone Campbell talks with Sayyid M. Syeed, national director of the Islamic Society of North America, at a June 24 interfaith event in Washington in support of universal health care. Sister Campbell, a Sister of Social Service, is the director of Network, a national Catholic social justice lobby. (CNS photo/Jessie Abrams)
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By Jessie Abrams
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Washington’s sweltering heat did its best to discourage people of faith from gathering at Freedom Plaza to participate in the Interfaith Service of Witness and Prayer for Health Care for All June 24.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – The “ambiguities” in a 7-year-old document from Catholic and Jewish dialogue partners are continuing to cause confusion, two committees of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said in a June 18 note.
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By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI offered his public support to the United Nations’ efforts to prevent the recruitment and deployment of child soldiers and said he prays each day for suffering children around the world.
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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Meeting in executive session in San Antonio, the U.S. bishops expressed “appreciation and support” for Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., especially for “his pastoral concern” for the University of Notre Dame.
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Ed McMahon speaks at The Catholic University of America’s Hartke Theater groundbreaking ceremony in 1967. McMahon, a Catholic who was a fixture on U.S. late-night television for 30 years, died June 23 at age 86. (CNS photo/courtesy of CUA archives)
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By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Known to millions for his trademark “Heeere’s Johnny” introduction as the longtime sidekick to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show,” entertainer and Catholic University of America alumnus Ed McMahon died early June 23 in Los Angeles at 86.
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Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl speaks at a prayer service in front of Metro headquarters in Washington June 23. The service was held to pray for those who died or were injured in the Washington subway system’s deadliest accident the day before. Nine were killed and almost 80 injured when a train collided into the rear of another June 22. (CNS photo/Rafael Crisostomo)
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By Richard Szczepanowski
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – One day after the deadliest accident in the history of Washington’s Metro subway system, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl gathered with Metro employees to pray for those who died or were injured in the incident.
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The “Choose Life” license plate celebrated its 10th anniversary in Florida June 10. It is the first official tag designed to encourage women with unplanned pregnancies to consider adoption as an alternative to abortion. (CNS/courtesy Choose Life, Inc .)
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By Carmen Blanco
Catholic News Service
WASHINGTON – Specialty license plates offer motorists a chance to express pride in sports teams, the military and a variety of organizations, and for the past 10 years a different kind of plate has promoted adoption as an alternative to abortion.
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