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By
John L. Allen Jr.
Fallout from revelations of collaboration parallels U.S. abuse
crisis.
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By
Joe Feuerherd
To be sure, the new Democratic majority in Congress is generally more
sympathetic to domestic antipoverty programs than their Republican
predecessors. But Washington’s faith-based antipoverty lobbyists
don’t expect miracles.
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By
Daniel Burke
In 2003, Jim Post, cofounder of Voice of the Faithful, asked a scholar
whether the Catholic reform group might merit a footnote in the 2,000-year
history of the church. “Maybe even a paragraph,” Post recalls the
scholar telling him with a smile.
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Balanced race and gender help churches grow, study finds
By
Religion News Service
Congregations interested in growing weekly attendance would do well to
make a plan for recruiting new members, becoming multiracial and making sure
serious conflict doesn’t take root.
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By
Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
PLO ambassador says U.S. works against its interests in
Mideast.
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Children of Don Quixote topple a couple windmills
By
Marc Mazgon-Fernandes
Less than a month after it first pitched tents for homeless people in a
gentrified section of Paris, a grass-roots movement has struck camp declaring
victory in a fight to make housing a right for all in France. After folding
their tents in Paris, members of the group known as the Children of Don
Quixote, set off for other European capitals to extend the campaign.
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Accountability and another Catholic scandal
The abrupt resignation of Archbishop Stanislaw
Wielgus as head of the Warsaw archdiocese in the wake of disclosures about his
collaboration with security forces during the communist era will probably be
lumped in the popular imagination under the heading “another Catholic scandal.”
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A toast to Maryknoll magazine
Maryknoll magazine, which has remained a staple of Maryknoll, the
U.S.-based Catholic missionary movement, celebrates its 100th anniversary this
year.
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“If people don’t like the product, they are likely to be
less generous. We have no power of compulsion.”
-- Archbishop Daniel Pilarczyk of Cincinnati talking about his
archdiocese’s debt and declining revenues
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It takes 100 hours
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Disorganized religion
By
Eugene Cullen Kennedy
The Episcopal and Roman Catholic church adopt different tactics for same
problem.
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By
Jerry Ryan
The glorious mess that was the early Christian church should be a sign
of hope to us today.
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Scottish bishop urges Catholics to oppose nuclear arsenal renewal
By
Simon Caldwell
A Scottish bishop has urged Catholics to oppose plans to renew Great
Britain’s nuclear arsenal.
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FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK
Airing out recent history
This seems to be the season, in the church, of bad news leaking out of
past eras. There is the sex abuse matter, of course, and more recently the
disclosures of accusations that church leaders collaborated with the Communist
Party in Poland in earlier decades.
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By
Marjorie Kowalski Cole
A few years ago, I wrote a poem late in November that began, “No
getting out of this box for six long months ...” Every winter the darkness
and the cold, but especially that darkness, reminding me, I suppose, of the
grave, would seep into my psyche, into my muscle fibers..
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Starting Point
By
James Stephen Behrens
A friend of mine is a teacher of special needs students. Most are
autistic. Some have physical handicaps. All share the one classroom, and they
all need some exercise in the morning. On sunny days, my friend told me, she
walks them around the block a few times. On rainy or cold days, she walks them
through the school corridors.
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By
Raymond A. Schroth
TV series about high school football critiques our society.
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Letters for January 19, 2007
Classifieds for January 19, 2007
News Briefs for January 19, 2007
People for January 19, 2007
Last Words
A memorable quote from this week's issue.
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