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Top stories for week of March 07, 2010

• March 08, 2010 Natural disasters give cause for reflection, Pope tells Sunday audience

  "The possibility of conversion demands that we learn to read the events of life in the light of faith," Pope Benedict XVI said at his midday audience on Sunday, March 7. The Pope said that it is

• March 08, 2010 German Church faces pressure as abuse inquiry broadens

  Pressure is mounting on Church officials in Germany to provide a thorough accounting of sex-abuse complaints. And the country's justice minister, Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, has criticized

• March 09, 2010 Cardinal Levada: ‘Union with the Catholic Church is the goal of ecumenism’

  In a lengthy address delivered in Canada on March 6, Cardinal William Levada, prefect for the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, stated that the reception of communities of Anglicans into

• March 09, 2010 Vatican rejects 'wall of silence' charge on sex-abuse complaints

  The Vatican has released a statement defending Church responses to sex-abuse complaints, and rejecting the charge by a German cabinet member that the Vatican was building a "wall of silence" on the

• March 09, 2010 Nigerian massacres: a 'horror' but not a religious conflict

  The Vatican has expressed "concern and horror" at the mass killings of Christians in Nigeria. A March 9 statement from the Vatican press office made the point that although the conflict in

• March 10, 2010 German bishops commission probe of abuse at choir school; Pope’s brother apologizes

  Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, who directed the cathedral choir in Regensburg from 1964 to 1994, has apologized to victims of sexual abuse at the choir’s boarding school. Msgr. Ratzinger has said that he

• March 10, 2010 Archbishops Dolan, Listecki reluctant to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians

  Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York told an Albany television reporter on March 9 that he does not favor denying Holy Communion to Catholic politicians who support abortion and same-sex

• March 10, 2010 Pope expresses horror at Nigerian massacre

  At the conclusion of his public audience on Wednesday, March 10, Pope Benedict XVI voiced his horror at the massacre of Christians in Nigeria and promised his prayers for the victims and their

• March 10, 2010 Vatican II did not create a new Church, Pope reminds audience

  At his public audience on March 10, Pope Benedict XVI argued that the Church remains the same throughout history. While new movements and reforms frequently arise, he said, they are born out of the