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Catholic Relief Services has provided food and water to more than 100,000 earthquake victims in Haiti; Agency has also provided "medical aid to thousands" [2/4]

Researchers discover that some diagnosed as 'vegetative' are "able to answer questions internally" [2/4]

'Historic event': Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos to celebrate Solemn Pontifical Mass at high altar of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception [2/4]

Priests For Life ad pulled from Canadian TV; Station claims the 'tastefully-done ad' is "too graphic" [2/4]

Vatican officials deny claims regarding false documents that led to editor's resignation [2/4]

Pope Benedict's message for Lent speaks of justice; Holy Father says "Before the justice of the Cross, man may rebel for this reveals how man is not a self-sufficient being, but in need of Another... Conversion to Christ, believing in the Gospel, ultimately means this: to exit the illusion of self-sufficiency in order to discover and accept one's own need - the need of others and God, the need of His forgiveness and His friendship. So we understand how faith is altogether different from a natural, good-feeling, obvious fact: humility is required to accept that I need Another to free me from 'what is mine', to give me gratuitously 'what is His'. This happens especially in the Sacraments of Reconciliation and the Eucharist. Thanks to Christ's action, we may enter into the 'greatest' justice, which is that of love, the justice that recognises itself in every case more a debtor than a creditor, because it has received more than could ever have been expected" [2/4]

Ridiculous: 'Catholic' college in CA names scholarship after PP director and PP volunteer; College's website calls PP director "the soul of goodness" [2/4]

Bad news: President Obama may have opportunity to appoint two more pro-abort Supreme Court justices by 2012 [2/4]

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