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		<title>Chileans unite as earthquake survivors struggle to rebuild their lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Barbara J. Fraser
LIMA, Peru (CNS) &#8212; While news reports highlighted the looting and violence that followed Chile&#8217;s massive earthquake, they overlooked the solidarity among ordinary people struggling to rebuild their homes and lives, church workers said.
For two days after the magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Chile&#8217;s central coast Feb. 27, people were seen breaking into [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/chileans-unite-as-earthquake-survivors-struggle-to-rebuild-their-lives/</link>
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		<title>Anglicans&#8217; formal bid to join Catholic Church seen as &#8217;starting point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Pattison
WASHINGTON (CNS) &#8212; Although leaders of the Anglican Church in America have formally sought to join the Catholic Church, &#8220;we still have a number of questions&#8221; about how it would work, said the traditionalist denomination&#8217;s spokesman.
&#8220;What we Anglicans are looking for is full sacramental unity,&#8221; said the Rev. Jeffrey Monroe, Anglican Church in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/anglicans-formal-bid-to-join-catholic-church-seen-as-starting-point/</link>
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		<title>Homilies should be under eight minutes long, says head of synod office</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Carol Glatz
VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; Homilies should be no longer than eight minutes &#8212; a listener&#8217;s average attention span, said the head of the synod office.
Priests and deacons should also avoid reading straight from a text and instead work from notes so that they can have eye contact with the people in the pews, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/homilies-should-be-under-eight-minutes-long-says-head-of-synod-office/</link>
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		<title>God renews, does not reinvent church, pope says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Cindy Wooden
VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; The Second Vatican Council&#8217;s renewal of the Catholic Church was a sign of progress, not a sign of repudiating the past, Pope Benedict XVI said.
&#8220;We know that after the Second Vatican Council some people were convinced that everything was new, that there was a new church, that the pre-conciliar [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/god-renews-does-not-reinvent-church-pope-says/</link>
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		<title>Podcast: March 14, 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s issue reports on the diocesan collection for Haiti, one of the top collections in diocesan history. We also read about a nurse-volunteer who is working with Haitian quake victims. Pope Benedict XVI shares a Sunday Lenten message. Today&#8217;s Catholic interviews Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/podcast-march-14-2010/</link>
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		<title>Healing the wounds in Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Medical mission nurse assists quake victims
By Diane Freeby
SOUTH BEND — In the days and weeks following the disastrous earthquake that killed over 200,000 people in the impoverished nation of Haiti on Jan. 12, Dr. Scott Thomas and his wife Ann-Marie were waiting — waiting to hear when he might go there to help with medical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/healing-the-wounds-in-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Diocese rallies in support  of relief efforts for Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kay Cozad
FORT WAYNE — In the wake of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, killing thousands of people including the archbishop of Port-au-Prince, communities across the country and the world continue to rally in support of their rebuilding efforts. The Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend, in its legendary generosity, has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/diocese-rallies-in-support-of-relief-efforts-for-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Notre Dame president looks forward to working  with new bishop, strengthening culture of life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Freeby
NOTRE DAME — In a new year with a new bishop, the president of the University of Notre Dame is looking ahead. Holy Cross Father John I. Jenkins says he is looking forward, not only to working with Bishop Kevin C. Rhoades, but also to helping strengthen the culture of life on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/notre-dame-president-looks-forward-to-working-with-new-bishop-strengthening-culture-of-life/</link>
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		<title>Ethical and religious directives drive hospital mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Kay Cozad
FORT WAYNE — Bioethical issues, during the course of choosing appropriate medical care, challenge the desire to respect life from conception to natural death. Healthcare workers and administrators across the globe are diligent in their quest to address these issues.
One local healthcare administrator, Poor Handmaid of Jesus Christ Sister Carole Langhauser, addresses those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/ethical-and-religious-directives-drive-hospital-mission/</link>
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		<title>New options offer healthy alternative to contraception, IVF</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Diane Freeby
NEW HAVEN — Treating women’s fertility as a health issue, and not a disease to be “fixed” is one of the messages FertilityCare Centers of America, Inc., (FCCA) hopes to share during the upcoming Worldwide FertilityCare Week, March 21-27.
FCCA is a nonprofit organization that has been established to promote the Creighton Model and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/new-options-offer-healthy-alternative-to-contraception-ivf/</link>
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		<title>News Around Indiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Catholic News Around Indiana
Compiled by Brandon A. Evans
Diocese of Evansville
Campaign to bring more Hispanic students into Catholic schools
By MARY ANN HUGHES (Message staff writer)
In November of 2009, a national task force commissioned by the University of Notre Dame launched a campaign to improve educational opportunities for the next generation of American Latinos by expanding their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/news-around-indiana/</link>
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		<title>Rejoice! God waits for us</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4th Sunday in Lent
Lk 15:1-3, 11-32
This weekend the Church observes Laetare Sunday, the name being derived from the first word, in Latin, of the Entrance Antiphon. The word is “laetare,” or “rejoice.” The Church rejoices that salvation, finalized in the sacrifice and resurrection of Jesus, is near.
To underscore this theme, priests may wear rose vestments. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/rejoice-god-waits-for-us/</link>
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		<title>Quiet and silent — Prayers for unity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this Year for Priests, we asked both a retired and an active priest to share with us their perspectives on priestly unity. Msgr. Lester died Feb. 20 and had submitted the reflection prior to his illness. 
Opening/Closing song: 
“Pan de Vida” (Gather Comprehensive, No. 848); “The Church’s One Foundation” (No. 661)
Opening prayer: 
Prayer for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/quiet-and-silent-%e2%80%94-prayers-for-unity/</link>
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		<title>Gratitude for Haitian relief collection</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My deep and heartfelt thanks to all the faithful of our diocese who contributed so generously to our special collection in January to assist the people of Haiti after the devastating earthquake there! As of March 2, we have collected $561,075 from our parishes. That is a tremendous contribution for the Church’s relief efforts in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/gratitude-for-haitian-relief-collection/</link>
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		<title>Parishes in and out of tsunami inundation zones go with the flow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Anna Weaver
HONOLULU (CNS) &#8212; While the large tsunami waves predicted to hit Hawaiian coastlines Feb. 27 turned out to be much smaller and left no damage, local Catholics took the threat seriously.
Many parishes canceled events and services, sent their priests to higher ground and took other precautions.
La Salette Father Efren Tomas, pastor of Christ [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/parishes-in-and-out-of-tsunami-inundation-zones-go-with-the-flow/</link>
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		<title>Simple lives of Christ, St. Francis remain examples today, pope says</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Sarah Delaney
VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; Pope Benedict XVI praised a 13th-century theologian and saint for emphasizing that the faithful should hold Christ and his teaching of poverty, chastity and obedience as a model for their lives.
In his weekly audience at the Vatican March 3, the pope talked about the spiritual and intellectual vigor of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/simple-lives-of-christ-st-francis-remain-examples-today-pope-says/</link>
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		<title>Same-sex marriage law prompts changes in agency&#8217;s employee benefits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Zimmermann
WASHINGTON (CNS) &#8212; Catholic Charities of the Washington Archdiocese has told staff members that a new same-sex marriage law in the District of Columbia has forced the agency to make changes to its health care coverage for spouses of employees.
&#8220;I am writing to you to inform you of an important change to our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/same-sex-marriage-law-prompts-changes-in-agencys-employee-benefits/</link>
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		<title>Keeping the faith</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Ann” shared with me a concern regarding her young adult children. Although raised in a committed Catholic home, they have recently been left feeling “cold” with the hypocrisy they see in the parish they attend. The son works in a club and regularly sees a lay church leader acting un-Christian-like in the bar — hitting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/keeping-the-faith/</link>
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		<title>Repent in Lent</title>
		<description><![CDATA[3rd Sunday of Lent
Lk 13:1-9
The Book of Exodus, the source of the first reading, is important because in general it provides an account of the Hebrews’ flight from Egypt, with all the misery that they endured there, to the land promised them by God.
In particular, this reading is important inasmuch as it tells of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/repent-in-lent/</link>
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		<title>Homily for Msgr. J. William Lester</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mass of Christian Burial, Feb. 25, 2010
He was the first priest of this diocese whom I met. The first among those beloved priests with whom my life would be intertwined forever in prayer, and pastoral care for our people — priests from whom I would ask so much, whom I would come to love as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.todayscatholicnews.org/2010/03/homily-for-msgr-j-william-lester/</link>
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