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    <title>The Georgia Bulletin - All News</title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Sister Built Bridge For Atlanta’s Asian Refugees</title>
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        <description> Cultural enrichment instructor Quyen Nguyen, standing, teaches the youth class words and phrases in Vietnamese as (clockwise, from left) Huy Thang Dang, Lucas Long, Dong Bach, Sandra Nguyen, Tan Bach and Kevin Nguyen listen and look over their material. (Photo by Michael Alexander) CHAMBLEE— Sister Christine Truong My Hanh...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Tornadoes Exact Deadly Toll; Region Needs Prayers</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2013/05/23/tornadoes_exact_deadly_toll_region_needs_prayers/?s=</link>
        <description> OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS)— Even after the initial death toll was cut by more than half, the human and material devastation of a string of tornadoes that buffeted areas of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City May 19-20 was incalculable. “Our first concern is for the victims who have lost their...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title> What Would Mother Teresa Do?</title>
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        <description>“What a great idea,” I thought when the email came around. The pro-life group at our church would be providing a meal for a parenting class run by the Pregnancy Center of Decatur. Volunteers were asked to deliver the meal on a Thursday at 5 p.m. to a place in...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>What I Have Seen and Heard</title>
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        <description>Move your tassels to the left! With that announcement, hundreds of our Catholic high school seniors have succeeded at moving from being students at our local schools to becoming alumni thereof. The widespread use of a mortarboard and the accompanying tassel perhaps has Catholic clerical roots. Some believe that the...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Lo Que He Visto Y He Oido</title>
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        <description>¡Muevan sus borlas al lado izquierdo! Con este anuncio, cientos de nuestros estudiantes católicos en su último año de secundaria habrán concluido exitosamente su etapa de estudiantes en nuestras escuelas locales y se convertirán en egresados para siempre. El amplio uso que se le ha dado al birrete y a...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>A Redesign For The Georgia Bulletin</title>
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        <description>It’s time for a change at The Georgia Bulletin. I’m happy to announce that with the July 4 issue, we’ll unveil the latest version of The Georgia Bulletin: a fresh, new print edition and the launch of a matching website. This is a project that has been in the works...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Eight Priests Celebrate Ministries Of 25, 50 Years</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2013/05/23/eight_priests_celebrate_ministries_of_25_50_years/?s=</link>
        <description> Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, center, poses with the 2013 silver and golden jubilee priests. They include (l-r) silver jubilarians Missionaries of the Nativity of Mary Father Jaime Molina and Conventual Franciscan Father John Koziol, golden jubilarian Msgr. Frank Giusta, silver jubilarians Father Philip Ryan and Dominican Father Bruce Schultz...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Archbishop Hosts Priests From Class Of 1973</title>
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        <description> Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, center, is joined by 11 priests from his May 9, 1973 ordination class on the occasion of their 40th anniversary. All of the priests, except one, are from the Archdiocese of Chicago. (Photos by Michael Alexander) ATLANTA— Forty years ago they were the class of...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Gosnell’s Conviction Shows ‘Ugliness Of Abortion’</title>
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        <description> Dr. Kermit Gosnell is shown in a courtroom artist sketch during his sentencing at Philadelphia Common Pleas Court in Philadelphia May 15. Gosnell was sent to prison to serve three life terms without parole for murdering babies during late-term abortions and for other crimes at his squalid clinic. In...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Inspiration, Intercessor: Mary Beloved In Latin America</title>
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        <description> A pilgrim carries an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe during celebrations marking her feast day, Dec. 12, 2012, outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City. Mary is associated with everything from national identity in Mexico to the mother earth in Chile to the national...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Looking Back... May 1963</title>
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        <description>The Georgia Bulletin issue of May 23, 1963, includes a front-page story expressing concern over the health of Pope John XXIII. Vatican officials announced May 21 that he would go on retreat within a few days. No authoritative comment was made publicly about the pope’s health, but all private audiences...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Archdiocesan Schools Affirmed By Certification Team</title>
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        <description> SMYRNA— A visiting team of 10 Catholic school educators has unanimously recommended the Archdiocese of Atlanta Catholic schools for district-wide accreditation by AdvancED. It was the culmination of a great deal of self-scrutiny by the Catholic school system. The Office of Catholic Schools, along with each individual school, had...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Boy Scouts in archdiocese among a few to earn national designation</title>
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        <description> Tommy Treat , the leader of Scouting in the Atlanta Archdiocese, reported good news. The Boy Scout program was notified it had received the National Catholic Committee on Scouting Quality Diocese award every year since its inception in 2002. Out of 197 dioceses in the country involved with Scouting,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Young artist wins $1,000 for St. Joseph School and she gets free burritos for a month.</title>
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        <description>Congrats to McKinley Roth . The student at St. Joseph School, Marietta , won a $1,000 donation to her school as her top prize in Willy’s Mexicana Grill T-shirt design contest. Willy Bitter , founder of the restaurant, visited McKinley, 9, of Marietta, in her classroom at the school, with...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Catholics and Jewish students learn about each other’s faiths</title>
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        <description>The Davis Academy seventh-grade class hosted 150 seventh-grade peers and their teachers from Marist School to provide a forum for understanding more about each other’s religious traditions. The Davis Academy is a Reform Jewish day school, for students through eighth grade.   In small groups, the students discussed each other’s faiths...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Young women spend a year in service to others </title>
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        <description>Three women with ties to the Atlanta area have spent a year in volunteer service. Two recent graduates of the University of Georgia in Athens and members of the Catholic Center at UGA served with the Franciscan Volunteer Ministry, an organization of lay people whose members live together in faith...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Brothers earn Boy Scouting’s highest rank at St. Peter Chanel</title>
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        <description>Brothers Matthew and Joseph Hill earned the rank of Eagle Scout in Troop 1134, sponsored by St. Peter Chanel Church, Roswell. It is Boy Scouting’s highest rank. They are the sons of Jeffrey and Anna Hill. Joseph, 13, is an eighth-grade student at Queen of Angels School, Roswell. He is the...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Roswell Valedictorian Latest In Family At Georgia Tech</title>
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        <description> Erin Flynn ROSWELL— Erin Flynn always gravitated toward math and science and now reaches for the stars, career-wise, as valedictorian at Roswell High School. Flynn will attend the Georgia Institute of Technology in the fall where she plans to major in material science engineering, aspiring to build, one day,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>At Pentecost, Pope Shares Personal Stories Of His Faith</title>
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        <description> VATICAN CITY (CNS)— With humor and passion, Pope Francis shared highlights of his personal faith journey and explained some key points of his teaching to an enthusiastic crowd of representatives from Catholic lay movements. Celebrating a vigil on the eve of Pentecost with an estimated 200,000 people singing, chanting...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title> ‘Taste Of Life’ Fundraiser To Benefit Living Room</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2013/05/23/taste_of_life_fundraiser/?s=</link>
        <description> ATLANTA— Taste of Life, the annual food and wine tasting event benefiting Living Room, Inc., a nonprofit agency that helps low-income families and individuals affected by HIV acquire and maintain safe and affordable housing, will be held Saturday, June 8, from 8 to 10 p.m. at Holy Cross Church,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Order of Malta Honored With Celebrate Life Award</title>
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        <description> ATLANTA— The Advice and Aid Pregnancy Problem Center, Atlanta’s only Catholic crisis pregnancy center, focuses at the core on its mission of protecting the rights of the unborn. Through the introduction of both health and educational options, the center offers ongoing support and assistance to mothers in crisis and...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Ford’s “The Searchers”: Connection And Redemption</title>
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        <description>Roger Ebert, who died recently and was perhaps the most important 20th-century apologist for cinema as both popular entertainment and serious art form, said of the relationship between movies and our collective imagination: “We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls.” Binx Bolling,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>New Disabilities Leader Focuses On Abilities, Inclusion</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2013/05/23/new_disabilities_leader_focuses_on_abilities_inclusion/?s=</link>
        <description> ATLANTA— Maggie Rousseau dove right into the hubbub that is Toni’s Camp. It’s a “marvelous evangelical opportunity to spread love,” she said about her introduction to the annual weekend retreat camp in the Atlanta Archdiocese that attracts about 100 people with disabilities. “It’s such a faith-building environment.” Rousseau was...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Matt Maher Marks CD Release With Local Concert</title>
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        <description> Matt Maher and his band appear at All Saints Church’s Studio ONE, where they performed songs off his latest compact disc, “All The People Said Amen.” Maher kicked off a 15-city North American tour on April 29 to promote the new music. (Photos by Michael Alexander) DUNWOODY— Playing to...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>On The Deck To Kick Off May 30</title>
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        <description> ATLANTA— On The Deck, a Catholic college ministry bringing together college-age students from all over Atlanta for the summer, will have its kickoff gathering on Thursday, May 30, at the Catholic Center at Georgia Tech, 172 Fourth St., NW, Atlanta. The group will meet every Thursday through Aug. 8...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>New Face In The Vocations Office</title>
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        <description> SMYRNA— Adam Lindenau was recently appointed the associate vocations director, working with director Father Tim Hepburn to help young people in the Archdiocese of Atlanta discern God’s will in their lives. The 22-year-old lives in Dunwoody and attends All Saints Church, Dunwoody. Engaged to be married on July 6,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Annual Mass To Honor Couples Married 50, 60 Years</title>
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        <description> JOHNS CREEK— Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory will honor couples married in 1963 and 1953 at the annual golden/diamond wedding anniversary Mass. This year’s anniversary Mass, recognizing marriages lasting 50 and 60 years, will be held on Saturday, Oct. 5, at 12 p.m. at St. Brigid Church in Johns Creek....</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Majority of priests in new survey dislike Roman Missal translation</title>
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        <description>WASHINGTON (CNS) -- A majority of U.S. priests said they dislike the translation of the Roman Missal introduced at Advent 2011, a new survey found. Overall, 59 percent of responding priests said they disliked the new English translation of the third edition of the Roman Missal. At the same time,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Impact of sequestration felt outside of Washington political arena</title>
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        <description>CHARLES TOWN, W.Va. (CNS) -- When Misael Santamaria thinks about how well the Head Start program at St. James Catholic Church prepared his older child for the West Virginia public school system, he thanks God it was available for his younger daughter before sequestration cuts eliminates spots for eligible preschoolers....</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Judiciary Committee approval moves immigration bill on to full Senate</title>
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        <description>WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform expressed optimism and hope for a law to pass this summer after the Senate Judiciary Committee May 21 finished wading through 300 proposed amendments -- accepting about a third of them -- and passed the massive bill on to the full Senate....</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Court to hear case on constitutionality of prayers at public meetings</title>
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        <description>ROCHESTER, N.Y. (CNS) -- The U.S. Supreme Court in the fall will hear oral arguments in a case from upstate New York about the practice of praying at open public meetings. One of the questions the high court may consider is what steps a municipality should take to ensure the...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Be salt of the earth, not 'museum Christians,' pope says at Mass</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called to be the salt of the earth, and if they don&#039;t share the flavor of their faith, hope and love with others, they are simply &quot;museum Christians,&quot; Pope Francis said. &quot;Salt has meaning when it gives flavor to something. Salt kept in a...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Pope reappoints Cardinal Vallini as vicar for Rome</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Two months after he said he wanted time for dialogue and prayer before fully confirming or appointing top officials, Pope Francis reappointed Cardinal Agostino Vallini as his vicar for Rome. The pope is the bishop of Rome, but as Pope Francis&#039; letter appointing Cardinal Vallini, 73,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Spain's bishops urge Catholics to be more proactive passing on faith</title>
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        <description>MADRID (CNS) -- Spain&#039;s bishops urged Catholics to be more proactive in passing on the faith to children. Raising children &quot;has always been a difficult but rewarding task. It demands common efforts by all those engaged in passing on the faith, to adapt and apply it in each diocese, parish,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Vatican financial investigator says laws, roles will be strengthened</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The director of the Vatican&#039;s Financial Intelligence Authority said the Vatican will further amend its finance-related laws in the coming months, increase screening of account holders at the Vatican bank and continue assessing the potential risk that accounts could be used for money laundering and the...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>El Salvador's leader gives pope bloodstained relic of Archbishop Romero</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis received a bloodstained relic of slain Archbishop Oscar Romero as a gift from El Salvador&#039;s President Mauricio Funes Cartagena. Funes had told the media before his May 23 trip that the primary aim of his visit with the pope would be to express his...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Bishops: South Africa's plan to charge tolls for existing roads immoral</title>
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        <description>CAPE TOWN, South Africa (CNS) -- Charging motorists to use existing roads is immoral, and the new toll-road system in South Africa should be suspended immediately, said the justice and peace department of the Southern African Catholic Bishops&#039; Conference. South Africa&#039;s Parliament is set to pass a bill that will...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Pope might visit Philippines for 2016 eucharistic congress, says prelate</title>
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        <description>MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- Pope Francis might visit the Philippines in early 2016 to attend the International Eucharistic Congress in Cebu City, said Archbishop Jose Palma, president of the bishops&#039; conference. The Asian church news agency UCA News reported May 23 that Archbishop Palma said he had received a request...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Pope Francis to visit birthplace of his namesake on saint's feast day</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis will visit the birthplace of his namesake, St. Francis of Assisi, on the saint&#039;s feast day, Oct. 4. The Vatican confirmed the trip May 23. Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino of Assisi said he was thrilled about the visit and that it was &quot;a great sign&quot;...</description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Total love for Jesus is the measure of a man of God, pope tells bishops</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The depth of a bishop or priest&#039;s love for Jesus and his willingness to give up everything for God are the litmus test for how well the pastor is fulfilling his ministry, Pope Francis said. &quot;We are not the face of an organization or an organizational...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Tornadoes exact deadly toll; region needs 'a lot of prayers right now' </title>
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        <description>OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) -- Even after the initial death toll was cut by more than half, the human and material devastation of a string of tornadoes that buffeted areas of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City May 19-20 was incalculable. &quot;Our first concern is for the victims who have lost their...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>U.S. appeals court strikes down Arizona law banning late-term abortions</title>
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        <description>PHOENIX (CNS) -- The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has struck down an Arizona law banning abortions after 20 weeks. The Mother&#039;s Health and Safety Act, passed by the Arizona Legislature and signed by Gov. Jan Brewer in 2012, was originally upheld by a federal judge but subsequently challenged....</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Catholic college graduates urged to go out and change the world</title>
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        <description>WASHINGTON (CNS) -- At Catholic college and university graduations across the United States this May, the graduates were urged to make a difference in today&#039;s world, equipped with tools and experience from their college years. At the University of Notre Dame&#039;s May 19 graduation, New York Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan,...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Catholic organizations among those helping Oklahoma tornado victims</title>
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        <description>OKLAHOMA CITY (CNS) -- The Knights of Columbus, Catholic Charities USA and Catholic Charities of Oklahoma City are among the charitable agencies collecting donations and providing emergency services to help victims of a string of tornadoes that buffeted areas of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City May 19-20. Moore, an Oklahoma...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Judiciary Committee approval moves immigration bill on to full Senate</title>
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        <description>WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Advocates for comprehensive immigration reform expressed optimism and hope for a law to pass this summer after the Senate Judiciary Committee May 21 finished wading through 300 proposed amendments -- accepting about a third of them -- and passed the massive bill on to the full Senate....</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Selfishness is a downer, proclaiming Christ brings joy, pope says</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Selfishness only brings sadness and bitterness, while stepping outside of oneself to evangelize is the ultimate &quot;pick me up&quot; and source of joy, Pope Francis said. &quot;Let&#039;s live the Gospel with humility and courage. Give witness to the newness, hope and joy that the Lord brings...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Vatican denies pope performed public exorcism</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2013/05/22/news-7/?s=</link>
        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- When Pope Francis solemnly laid both hands on the head of a young man in a wheelchair and prayed intently over him for several minutes, he was not performing an exorcism, said the Vatican spokesman. The young man, who was among dozens of people in wheelchairs...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Pope says Christians must recognize good others do, work with them</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Christians are called to welcome and cooperate with the good accomplished by members of other religions or no religion at all, promoting a culture of dialogue and peace, Pope Francis said. &quot;We are all children of God -- all of us. And God loves us --...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>Vatican financial investigator says laws, roles will be strengthened</title>
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        <description>VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- The director of the Vatican&#039;s Financial Intelligence Authority said the Vatican will further amend its finance-related laws in the coming months, increase screening of account holders at the Vatican bank and continue assessing the potential risk that accounts could be used for money laundering and the...</description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
        <title>With no bishop, Shanghai priests concerned about Masses, pilgrimages</title>
        <link>http://www.georgiabulletin.org/world/2013/05/22/news-10/?s=</link>
        <description>MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- A Chinese priest who recently arrived in the Philippines said that, this year, he did not make his usual May trek up Sheshan hill outside Shanghai, where thousands of pilgrims offer special prayers to Mary, Help of Christians. Speaking to Catholic News Service on the condition...</description>
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