Recent top stories:

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(updated 5/9/2008 10:19:17 AM EST)

• Pacing the pope: Pope's seclusion is prudence, not disappearing act
  
  
• Barber at CUA retires with many friends after 47 years on campus
  
  
• Many new U.S. priests are in their 30s and foreign-born, study says
  
  
• Quebec cardinal never dreamed mission area would be his home province
  
  
• Cardinals, bishops to be among Americans at eucharistic congress
  
  
• Liturgy, stem cells, sex abuse among topics at bishops' June meeting
  
  
• Brazilian court acquits rancher accused of ordering U.S. nun's murder
  
  
• Priest calls for new strategies to keep young adults in church
  
  
• Lebanese parish prepares young Iraqi refugees for first Communion
  
  
• Church recognizes 17th-century Marian apparitions in France
  
  
• Doctor calls spirituality key to dying patient's quality of life
  
  
• Pope expresses deep sadness over cyclone's destruction in Myanmar
  
  
• Vatican theologians see miracle in Hawaiian woman's cancer cure
  
  
• Some Latin American politicians grounded in Catholic social teaching
  
  
• Some Latin American politicians grounded in Catholic social teaching