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Is the U.S. moving in the right direction overall?

Yes, I feel optimistically it is
No, I feel things are going sour
Maybe, I'm not worried
I don't know
I don't care
 
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Thursday, August 28, 2008


Bishops say Pelosi misrepresented abortion teaching in TV interview

WASHINGTON. The chairmen of the U.S. bishops' pro-life and doctrine committees criticized House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, saying she "misrepresented the history and nature of the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church on abortion" in a nationally televised interview Aug. 24. Pelosi, D-Calif., who is Catholic, said in an appearance that day on NBC's "Meet the Press" that church leaders for centuries had not been able to agree on when life begins. An Aug. 25 statement by Cardinal Justin Rigali of Philadelphia and Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn., said the church since the first century "has affirmed the moral evil of every abortion." 
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Percentage changes small, but numbers up for poverty
in United States

 

Catholic gospel music
making a joyful noise
unto the Lord

WASHINGTON. Figures released Aug. 26 by the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that, while the number of Americans in poverty last year rose over 2006 levels, the percentage increase was not statistically significant. Try telling that to America's newly poor, said Candy Hill, senior vice president for social policy and government affairs at Catholic Charities USA. "We have 800,000 more people living in poverty, including 500,000 more children" and 200,000 more senior citizens, Hill told CNS shortly after the figures were released. 
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WASHINGTON. It may seem as if gospel music has been with us all our lives. But the genre didn't begin until Thomas A. Dorsey, widely regarded as the father of gospel music, changed his tune. A blues pianist who once recorded the raunchy "Tight Like That," which sold an amazing 7 million copies, he dabbled in what were at the time called "evangelistic songs," getting two of them published in the Gospel Book, a publication of the National Baptist Convention. Dorsey took credit for coining the term "gospel songs" -- church music
with a blues underpinning.
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'Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis' 


The Eucharist is not just a static gift of Christ's body and blood but also an active gift of Christ's continuing work among us. The Eucharist enables believers to share in Christ's sacrifice, uniting all members of Christ's body and inviting the whole of humanity into unity with one another. 

'The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2'        

NEW YORK. "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" (Warner Bros.) finds friends Tibby (Amber Tamblyn), Lena (Alexis Bledel), Carmen (America Ferrera) and Bridget (Blake Lively) -- last seen as high school sophomores -- reuniting, albeit briefly, after their first year of college. 

Historical study of Jewish children hidden from Nazis has some gaps



In researching "Hidden Children of the Holocaust," Suzanne Vromen studied church and Jewish records, and interviewed 16 women and 12 men who were hidden as children in Belgian convents, and eight nuns and one priest involved in the rescues. 





 

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Catholics encouraged to pray novena in weeks leading up to election


Catholic law-school students get experience with death penalty cases

Historian collects stories of life in immediate aftermath of Katrina

Bishop expects 200,000 pilgrims to attend papal Mass at Lourdes

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