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By Catholic News Service
BALTIMORE (CNS) – The U.S. bishops voted Nov. 17 to approve a pastoral letter on marriage, despite the concern voiced by some bishops about the document’s pastoral tone and content. Nearly 100 changes in two rounds of amendments preceded the 180-45 vote in favor of “Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan” on the […]
Movies
In the disaster movie to end all fiasco flicks, a doomsday cataclysm results in billions losing their lives as the earth’s crust breaks apart, dismantling civilization and rearranging the continents. Director Roland Emmerich gives his special-effects wizards license to test the limits of the technically plausible and morally palatable, while asking moviegoers to take heart […]
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By Catholic News Service
BEAUMONT, Texas (CNS) – “We hope and pray that our soldiers do not die on the battlefields. Then something like this happens on one of our bases by a fellow soldier,” said Bishop Curtis J. Guillory of Beaumont about the Nov. 5 shootings at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas that left 13 dead […]
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By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON – Republicans won the two governor’s races up for grabs in 2009. In Virginia, voters elected a governor whose pro-life views had come under fire from his opponent. Bob McDonnell, a Catholic who graduated from Bishop Ireton High School in Alexandria, won with nearly 60 percent of the vote over his Democratic rival, R. […]
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By Katie Bahr
“Our job is not to tear down the things we hate. Our job is to build up the things we love.” That quote, from an Irish revolutionary dating back to the 1920s, is the motto that Frank O’Reilly, a parishioner of St. John the Baptist Parish in Front Royal, says he has tried to live […]
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By Nancy Frazier O’brien
WASHINGTON – Nearly six years after beginning the task, the U.S. bishops hope to conclude their work on the English translation and U.S. adaptations of the Roman Missal first introduced in Latin in 2002. The final five action items related to the missal will come before the bishops at their fall general meeting Nov. 16-19 […]
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By Andrea Slivka
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – Msgr. John Esseff, retired exorcist of the Diocese of Scranton, Pa., shared his experiences with demonic spirits in a talk to students at Bowling Green State University, but his main message for them was the power of Jesus within them. “Your power through him and with him and in him is […]
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By Catholic News Service
NEW YORK (CNS) – Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York have placed a friendly wager on the outcome of the 2009 World Series. The two longtime friends spoke the evening of Oct. 27 to settle the terms of the bet. If the Phillies win, Archbishop Dolan will ship […]
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By Gretchen R. Crowe
Father Mark E. Moretti, pastor of St. Thomas à Becket Parish in Reston, was just 9 years old when he received the first inclination that he should become a priest. The oldest of three children of John and Jean Moretti, Father Moretti was born on March 28, 1958, in Washington, D.C. – one of the […]
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By Katie Bahr
It was three years ago when Uma Krishnan says she first dreamed of the Virgin Mary. It was January 2006 and she was living in Singapore with her husband, Kumar, and her son, Karthi. In her dream she saw a “very humble lady” surrounded by candles. She and Kumar were devout Hindus and they knew […]
