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Archdiocese tackles issues involved in ministering to multiple parishes

By • The Catholic Telegraph • 5/8/2008

CINCINNATI, OH (The Catholic Telegraph) - In a trend occurring in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and in dioceses across the country, more and more priests are serving two or more parishes as the number of active priests declines. How to effectively minister in this new environment was the topic of ...

�Sex-change� treatment for �transgender� kids? Hospital clinic draw moral criticism

By • The Anchor • 5/8/2008

BOSTON, MA (The Catholic Anchor) - A clinic at Children�s Hospital is providing powerful hormones to disturbed children who believe they should have been born the opposite sex. The Gender Management Service Clinic helps youngsters with real physical problems, but it also treats those �with no known ...

Dignity, not utility, must govern bioethics, says Catholic speaker in Stanford talk

By • Catholic San Francisco • 5/7/2008

PALO ALTO, CA (Catholic San Francisco) - Human dignity rises above all other considerations in biomedical research and health care and must govern ethical decisions in the lab and at the bedside, Dr. Edmund Pellegrino, the chairman of the President�s Council on Bioethics, told Stanford law students ...

Personal action key in global-warming fight, Purdue prof tells climate-change conference

By • The Catholic Moment • 5/5/2008

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (The Catholic Moment) � Like it or not, Americans are largely responsible for global warming. They form 4.5 percent of the world�s population, but they produce 25 percent of the carbon dioxide. Climate change is threatening the planet, and every person can do something about ...

Cleveland-area parishioners on mission trip build bridge of faith to Central America

By • Catholic Universe Bulletin • 5/5/2008

(Editor�s note: Editor Dennis Sadowski and his family traveled with parishioners from St. Basil the Great Parish, Brecksville, on their most recent mission trip to San Francisco de la Paz, Honduras, January 20-30.) More than 2,400 miles from home, Father Walter Jenne stood at the altar and looked ...

Lourdes national shrine in Ohio marks 150 years since Mary appeared to St. Bernadette

By • Catholic Universe Bulletin • 4/30/2008

EUCLID, OH (Catholic Universe Bulletin) - When Vincent Mancuso was 10 years old he was visiting Little Italy for the Feast of the Assumption when someone accidentally shoved him. He fell and the pair of scissors in his hand pierced his right eye, leaving him blind. The next month, his parents took ...

Take part in civic, social, political arena, conference speakers encourage Catholics

By • Catholic San Francisco • 4/29/2008

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (Catholic San Francisco) - Catholics should take part in the political and social arenas and employ Church social teachings as their guide more than look to Church leaders, much less to partisan campaigns, for easy answers to hard choices. That was an underlying message of ...

Humana Inc. to acquire OSF HealthPlans

By • Catholic Online • 4/29/2008

ROCKFORD, Il (The Catholic Observer) - Last month, Humana Inc. announced its intention to purchase OSF HealthPlans, a licensed managed care company with about 78,000 members, for $90.5 million. �For a period of time after the sale, the systems (and personnel) of OSF HealthPlans � are expected to ...

'Big Sunday' attracts big-hearted volunteers

By • The Tidings • 4/28/2008

LOS ANGELES, CA (The Tidings) - Big Sunday has come to mean Big Synergy. The largest citywide community service weekend in the country, Big Sunday is building meaningful community interactions across traditional ethnic, religious and social barriers. Originally the idea started out as Mitzvah Day ...

Nebraska Cornhuskers head coach Bo Pelini lends supports to Catholic radio expansion

The Catholic Voice • 4/25/2008

OMAHA, Neb. (The Catholic Voice) - As the May 26 deadline approaches for raising $2.5 million to purchase a 100,000 watt FM station, supporters of Catholic radio are getting fired up. Bo Pelini, head football coach at the University of Nebraska, threw his support behind the fundrais-ing campaign by ...