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• March 12, 2010 Catholic Health Association spent over $1 million lobbying on health-care reform

  The Catholic Health Association (CHA) spent over $1 million on lobbying in 2009 as the group pushed for passage of health-care reform legislation. The CHA, an umbrella group that represents the

• March 12, 2010 Pope will skip Alpine vacation this summer

  Pope Benedict XVI has decided not to take a vacation in the Italian Alps this summer, choosing instead to spend all of his vacation time at the summer papal residence on Castel Gandolfo. The Pope,

• March 12, 2010 Does the Devil cause abuse? Easier explanations are available, columnist notes

  Father Gabriele Amorth, the longtime exorcist of the Rome diocese, has drawn widespread attention this week for suggesting that scandals in the Church are related to the active presence of the Devil

• March 12, 2010 India: police thwart Hindu plot to vandalize Catholic cathedral

  Police in Satna, in central India, stopped a group of about 60 Hindu militants that was seeking to enter the city's cathedral of St. Vincent on March 12. The group, which was protesting alleged

• March 12, 2010 Chinese 'underground' priest unshaken by arrest

  A Chinese priest of the "underground" Catholic Church has been arrested for the crime of organizing a camp for 300 students. Father John Baptist Luo was unmoved by the threat of imprisonment. "I'm

• March 12, 2010 Priests are not social workers, Pope says

  A Catholic priest cannot be reduced to a "social worker," Pope Benedict XVI told a group of priests in Rome on March 12. Adopting that model of priestly ministry, he said, runs "the risk of

• March 12, 2010 Pope welcomes German bishops' response to scandal

  Pope Benedict XVI met on March 12 with Archbishop Robert Zollitsch of Freiburg, the president of the German bishops' conference, to discuss the burgeoning sex-abuse scandal in that country. The

• March 12, 2010 New US bishop donated kidney to parishioner

  A parish priest who recently donated a kidney to a parishioner has been named an auxiliary bishop. “It's been a tremendously rewarding experience,” said Msgr. Mark Seitz, one of two

• March 12, 2010 Scotland: Marriages at lowest level since 1893

  The number of marriages in Scotland has fallen to the lowest level since 1893, while the marriage rate has fallen to the lowest level since 1855. “In such an aggressively secular society it is

• March 12, 2010 North Carolina parish’s music minister faces 30 years for child porn

  The former music minister of a Catholic parish in western North Carolina faces 30 years in prison after he pled guilty to a charge of producing child pornography. According to court documents, Paul

• March 12, 2010 Sri Lanka: Archbishop Rajinth establishes 1st Catholic monastery

  Sri Lanka’s leading prelate has founded the first Christian monastery in his largely Buddhist nation. Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, who served as secretary of the Congregation for Divine

• March 12, 2010 Cardinal blasts condom vending machine at Roman high school

  Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the Pope’s vicar for Rome, has criticized a decision by a Roman high school to install condom vending machines for students. The machines “cannot be approved by Rome's

• March 12, 2010 6 Muslim employees of Christian agency murdered in Pakistan

  Throwing grenades, between 15 and 20 armed men stormed a World Vision office in northwestern Pakistan on March 10. The suspected Taliban members then robbed the staff, killed six aid workers, and

• March 11, 2010 Obama White House downgrades religious freedom, former official charges

  A former State Department official points out that while President Obama has claimed that religious freedom is a priority for his administration, he has not acted on that claim. The president is