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Apostolic Visitation of U.S. Religious Concludes

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Mother Mary Clare Millea, ASCJ, Apostolic Visitator for Institutes of Women Religious in the United States, held a concluding workshop last week for the religious who assisted with on-site visits to congregations of women religious, signaling the end of the years-long visitation.

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UK Bishop: Don't Rub Off Your Ashes!

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist Catholics around the world will be receiving their ashes tomorrow to mark the start of the Lenten season, and a UK bishop is asking all to refrain from rubbing off their ashes so that they can "take the sign of the cross" to all those they will meet during the course of the day.

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Vatican and Bishop of Islamabad Mourn the Murder of Catholic Minister in Pakistan

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

Church authorities are expressing shock and sadness over the killing of Shabhaz Bhatti, Pakistan's lone minister for minorities, who was gunned down in a hail of bullets as he left his mother's home in Islamabad yesterday morning.

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USCCB Joins Growing Outcry over Obama DOMA Decision

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist The office of the General Counsel for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has joined a host of other groups from across the country who are decrying the president's decision on Wednesday to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) because he personally believes it to be unconstitutional.

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Quake Leaves Diocese of ChristChurch "Out of Action"

By Susan Brinkmann, OCDS Staff Journalist

A magnitude 6.3 earthquake that struck ChristChurch, New Zealand on Feb. 22 and left at least 75 dead, seriously damaged the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament and put the diocese of Christchurch "out of action."

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