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Caption: Auxiliary Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Philadelphia reads a newspaper while enjoying a mild day in Baltimore Nov. 15. U.S. bishops were gathering in Baltimore for their fall general meeting. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Auxiliary Bishop Daniel E. Thomas of Philadelphia reads a newspaper while enjoying a mild day in Baltimore Nov. 15. U.S. bishops were gathering in Baltimore for their fall general meeting. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Bishops remember Salvadoran Jesuits on anniversary of 1989 murders

By Catholic News Service

BALTIMORE (CNS) -- The U.S. bishops added their collective voice to those of others in honoring the memory of the six Salvadoran Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter, all of whom were assassinated 20 years ago by a Salvadoran death squad.

Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y., chairman of the bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace, said in a statement issued Nov. 16 -- the anniversary date of the murders -- that the bishops joined many others in "commemorating the lives and work of the six Jesuits and their collaborators."

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Caption: Jan van der Hulst from Holland plays the trumpet in St. Peter's Square after Pope Benedict XVI led the Angelus Nov. 15 at the Vatican. Musicians with the band Kleintje Pils were visiting the Vatican with their bishop. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Jan van der Hulst from Holland plays the trumpet in St. Peter's Square after Pope Benedict XVI led the Angelus Nov. 15 at the Vatican. Musicians with the band Kleintje Pils were visiting the Vatican with their bishop. (CNS/Paul Haring)
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THIS WEEK IN ORIGINS

Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 39, No. 24 (Nov. 19, 2009):

-- The U.S. bishops urge the House of Representatives to keep federal funding of abortion out of health care reform.

-- Pope Benedict XVI creates new structures for welcoming former Anglicans into the Catholic Church in the apostolic constitution "Anglicanorum Coetibus."

-- The Vatican doctrinal congregation issues norms for creating and governing new structures for former Anglicans entering the Catholic Church.

-- Jesuit Father Gianfranco Ghirlanda, a Rome-based expert in church law, discusses the significance of new structures created by Pope Benedict for former Anglicans in a commentary distributed by the Vatican.

-- Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople traces the Christian roots of nonviolence, health care and environmentalism.

-- The bishops of Washington state report growing numbers of military veterans among the homeless and others helped by church agencies.

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