Catholic News Headlines / Links [3-9-10]

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Vatican statement concerning abuse of minors in central Europe [3/9]

Feedback from Dominican Sisters' appearance on Oprah has been "overwhelmingly positive" [3/9]

Week-long course being held at Vatican to teach young priests "how to correctly administer the sacrament of confession" [3/9]

Women in many parts of the world suffer, but an "ideologically driven" push for gender equality may result in international conferences' and committees' documents that "link the achievement of personal, social, economic and political rights to a notion of sexual and reproductive health and rights which is violent to unborn human life and is detrimental to the integral needs of women and men within society" [3/9]

Physician-psychiatrist-professor affirms that priestly celibacy is "not [psychologically] dangerous at all" [3/9]

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