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Caption: A rosary hangs from a tree near where faculty and students of a Salesian mission school were hastily buried in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the Jan 12 earthquake. The Salesians, sponsor of the largest network of Catholic education in the country, were rethinking their programs following the devastating quake. (CNS/Tom Tracy)
A rosary hangs from a tree near where faculty and students of a Salesian mission school were hastily buried in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, following the Jan 12 earthquake. The Salesians, sponsor of the largest network of Catholic education in the country, were rethinking their programs following the devastating quake. (CNS/Tom Tracy)
Abuse cases show need for greater women's role, Vatican newspaper says

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- A greater presence of women in decision-making roles in the church might have helped remove the "veil of masculine secrecy" that covered priestly sex abuse cases, a front-page commentary in the Vatican newspaper said.

The article said that despite calls by popes and others for welcoming women into equal, though diverse, roles in the church, women have generally been kept out of positions of responsibility.
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Caption: Pope Benedict XVI greets people after arriving for his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 10. During the audience, he appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Pope Benedict XVI greets people after arriving for his general audience in Paul VI hall at the Vatican March 10. During the audience, he appealed for an end to violence in Nigeria. (CNS/Paul Haring)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 39, No. 39 (March 11, 2010):

-- Mormons and Catholics should stand together in defense of religious liberty as new threats to religious freedom arise in the United States, particularly in the areas of health care policy and the development of gay rights, Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. bishops' conference, tells a Brigham Young University audience.

-- San Antonio Archbishop Jose H. Gomez describes the challenges Christians face in proclaiming Christ to a new generation in a "de-Christianized" culture awash in many powerful competing messages.

-- Nineteen Catholic scholars of theology and history ask Pope Benedict XVI to slow the process of the sainthood cause of Pope XII pending further research on his role during World War II and the Holocaust.

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