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		<title>Vatican downplays charges of financial &#8216;corruption&#8217;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Francis X. Rocca Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; Insisting on the Holy See&#8217;s continuing commitment to transparency and rectitude in economic affairs, the Vatican&#8217;s spokesman downplayed references to &#8220;corruption&#8221; in a letter apparently sent to Pope Benedict XVI by a Vatican official who is now apostolic nuncio to the United States. Jesuit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9301&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New questions, challenges confront Episcopal-turned-Catholic leader</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nancy Frazier O&#8217;Brien Catholic News Service BALTIMORE (CNS) &#8212; Father Jeffrey N. Steenson is finding that there are a lot of new roads to travel and new questions to resolve since his Jan. 1 appointment as head of the Houston-based Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter for former Anglicans who want to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9297&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Evangelization can never be just a marginal concern, pope says</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) &#8212; Evangelization must never be a marginal concern for the church, Pope Benedict XVI said. From bishops to religious and the lay community, &#8220;All elements of the great mosaic of the church must feel themselves strongly called on by the Lord&#8217;s mandate to preach the Gospel, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9295&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Prayers lifted at Migration Week Vigil</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southeast Texas gathered to pray for migrants at St. Anthony Cathedral Basilica Center, Beaumont, Jan. 24 for the National Migration Week Prayer Vigil. Guest speaker Jose Ahumada, leader of Zarza, a contemporary Christian band, spoke about the migration experience. “This is an important issue that is often overlooked or even ignored. These people, and I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9286&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Southeast Texans march for life</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[St. Anne, Beaumont, was packed with folks ready to take the pro-life message to the streets Jan. 22 at the Right to Life of Southeast Texas Annual Rally and Walk. Father Sinclair Oubre, director of Apostleship of the Sea, was the keynote speaker. “This is a complex issue and that’s fine because we, as humans, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9269&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Poll indicates strong majority of Americans OK abortion restrictions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) &#8212; A poll taken for the Knights of Columbus and Marist College in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., indicates a strong majority of Americans continue to want restrictions on abortion. According to the poll, 79 percent of those surveyed said they would not allow abortion after the first three months of pregnancy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9266&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beaumont celebrates Lunar New Year</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Parishioners at St. Joseph, Beaumont, celebrated the Lunar New Year Jan. 22 with a parish festival. Folks turned out in droves for good food, live music and the traditional Dragon Dance, meant to bring good luck for the year to all who put money in the dragon’s mouth.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9253&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retiro de los Catequistas</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[El sábado, 21 de enero del 2012 fue el retiro para los catequistas, &#60;&#60;Haced esto en conmemoración mía.&#62;&#62; Padre Neil Arce les ayudo a los participantes que se examinaran la acción de Dios en sus vidas. Dijo que como cristianos es importante que vivamos la encarnación de Cristo en nuestras vidas y mostrarlo a otras [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9244&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HHS delays, but does not change, rule on contraceptive coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:13:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Editors: Adds new material after third paragraph; other minor editing. UPDATED version of HHS-CONTRACEPTIVES of Jan. 20, 2012: By Nancy Frazier O&#8217;Brien Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) &#8212; Although Catholic leaders vowed to fight on, the Obama administration has turned down repeated requests from Catholic bishops, hospitals, schools and charitable organizations to revise its religious [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9241&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ruling over teacher&#8217;s firing could have far-reaching implications</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Patricia Zapor Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) &#8212; The direction the courts will take with other cases related to religious employment is far from clear, but the Supreme Court&#8217;s Jan. 11 ruling opens a whole track of possibilities. The decision in Hosanna-Tabor v. EEOC held that fired teacher Cheryl Perich could not sue under [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=easttexascatholic.com&amp;blog=8037053&amp;post=9238&amp;subd=easttexascatholic&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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