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SPRINGFIELD – With one-time gifts and pledges received by the Diocese of Springfield as of May 7 totaling $504,567.24 the first week of the active phase of the Annual Catholic Appeal (ACA) was completed. WORLD
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Latin is online at the Vatican. Without fanfare, the Vatican's www.vatican.va site has made hundreds of papal and other documents available in a new Latin-language section. WORLD SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS) – A Brazilian jury acquitted one of the ranchers accused of ordering the assassination of U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang in 2005. NATIONAL WASHINGTON (CNS) – In a budgetary move meant to maintain ministries and meet the needs of a growing Catholic population, the Archdiocese of Miami will reduce funding for financially strapped parishes and schools. REGIONAL
PITTSFIELD – An effort to reach a mediated settlement in a complex lawsuit brought by the Diocese of Springfield against its insurance carriers have not yet succeeded, attorneys told a Superior Court judge here April 30. NATIONAL WASHINGTON (CNS) – Bishops in Connecticut and Seattle marked the feast of St. Joseph the Worker May 1 with calls to welcome immigrants and encourage broad immigration law and policy reforms. NATIONAL
HONOLULU (CNS) – Theological consultors to the Vatican Congregation for Saints' Causes have ruled that the cancer cure of a Hawaiian woman was due to Blessed Damien de Veuster's intercession, Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva announced April 29. NATIONAL WASHINGTON (CNS) – Catholic aid agencies were assessing the humanitarian situation in Myanmar after a cyclone hit the Southeast Asian country and killed thousands. NATIONAL
LA CROSSE, Wis. (CNS) – Wisconsin's bishops are calling for "reasonable standards for the protection of human life and dignity" in an April 29 pastoral letter addressing embryonic stem-cell research. MOVIE
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NEW YORK (CNS) – "Son of Rambow" (Paramount Vantage) is a rollicking but also touching chronicle of boyhood friendship set in 1980s Britain. NATIONAL
WASHINGTON (CNS) – More than 1,000 stamp collectors, alumni, faculty and students flocked to Mount St. Mary's University in Emmitsburg, Md., April 26 to celebrate as the U.S. Postal Service issued a new 27-cent stamped postal card that pays tribute to the bicentennial of the second-oldest Catholic university in the country. WORLD Pope says trip to U.S. was opportunity to give, receive hope, faith
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give -- and to receive -- a witness to the power of hope and faith. TOP
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BOSTON (CNS) – Meeting victims of clergy sexual abuse at the papal nunciature in the nation's capital during his six-day U.S. visit was a moving experience for Pope Benedict XVI, said Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley of Boston. |
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SPRINGFIELD – Pilgrims from the Diocese of Springfield gathered April 24 in the Holy Spirit Chapel adjacent to St. Michael’s Cathedral to prepare for their trip to the 49th Annual International Eucharistic Congress to be celebrated next month in Quebec City, Canada. NATIONAL
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QUEBEC CITY (CNS) - Organizers of the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress are keeping a spiritual focus while planning all the programming, accommodation, food and logistics for thousands of pilgrims. NATIONAL Illinois bill would allow detainees access to religious counselors CHICAGO (CNS) – Mercy Sisters JoAnn Persch and Pat Murphy didn't know too much about the system faced by immigrants who are about to be deported when they started praying outside the Broadview detention center last year. REGIONAL
CHICOPEE – St. Patrick School, here, the first Catholic school in the diocese to be staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph, will not reopen in September because of low enrollment. WORLD
VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI appealed to the world community to be merciful and generous by offering aid and working to relieve the suffering caused by Cyclone Nargis, which killed tens of thousands in Myanmar. WORLD
QUEBEC CITY (CNS) - Organizers of the 2008 International Eucharistic Congress are keeping a spiritual focus while planning all the programming, accommodation, food and logistics for thousands of pilgrims. NATIONAL L.A. Archdiocese puts schools up as collateral to settle abuse cases WASHINGTON (CNS) – Seven high schools owned and operated by the Archdiocese of Los Angeles were used as collateral to secure loans to help the archdiocese pay its share of the $720 million settlements with victims of clergy sexual abuse. WORLD SAO PAULO, Brazil (CNS) – A Brazilian jury acquitted one of the ranchers accused of ordering the assassination of U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang in 2005. NATIONAL
WASHINGTON (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI accepted the resignation of Archbishop Harry J. Flynn of St. Paul and Minneapolis May 2. WORLD
ROME (CNS) – The drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 60 years ago and its adoption by almost every country in the world demonstrate that all peoples can recognize some basic common principles, said the U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. NATIONAL NEW HAVEN, Conn. (CNS) – Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. visit impacted public attitudes toward the pope, the church and people's willingness to live their faith more fully, according to a poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus. WORLD
BEIJING (CNS) – Catholics in China prayed for God's blessing on the Olympic Games as the Olympic torch arrived in Hong Kong en route to the capital Beijing. |
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REGIONAL PITTSFIELD – An effort to reach a mediated settlement in a complex lawsuit brought by the Diocese of Springfield against its insurance carriers have not yet succeeded, attorneys told a Superior Court judge here April 30. |
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