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Focus April 30, 2009Voice of the Faithful Focus – A brief update highlighting issues and successes as we work together to Keep the Faith, Change the Church. America Magazine, a Jesuit weekly, is the latest to add its voice to call to review mandated celibacy. In an editorial out this week, the Catholic magazine says it's time for the Catholic Church to discuss letting priests marry, suggesting that prayer for vocations is no longer an adequate response to the priest shortage in the United States. The Voice of the Faithful National Priest Support Working Group has been exploring this issue. For more information and to follow along in the discussion, you can visit their website. After meeting with representatives of Canadian clergy abuse victims at the Vatican, Pope Benedict said he regretted the decades of abuse inflicted on the Native American children by clergy. He went on to say that acts of abuse cannot be tolerated in this society and prayed that all those affected would experience healing. Stories we are following..... Minnesota native named as the new Archbishop of St. Louis. Parish merges are said to be likely in Indiana in a hope to cover for the shortage of priests Two grandfathers answer God's call to the priesthood.
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