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(updated 5/17/2013 3:28:38 PM EST)

• Vatican Legal: Church teaching doesn't change, but church laws can
  
  
• Sainthood cause of 16th-century Jesuit moves to Vatican
  
  
• Ripple effect continues five years after immigration raid on Iowa plant
  
  
• Pope calls for global, ethical finance reform, end to cult of money
  
  
• Researchers' embryonic stem-cell advance decried as morally troubling
  
  
• Archbishop says people returning to confession because of pope
  
  
• Pope says there are no part-time Christians; faith is a full-time job
  
  
• Vatican commissions art for display at Venice international exhibition
  
  
• Patroness, inspiration, intercessor: Mary is beloved in Latin America
  
  
• Syrian crisis part of Western geopolitical strategy, says patriarch
  
  
• Church is growing worldwide, especially in Asia, Africa, Vatican says
  
  
• Pope warns comfortable living causes 'gentrification of the heart'
  
  
• Comic book tackles wage theft with goal of empowering aggrieved workers
  
  
• Through blogs, Catholic moms share their faith as 'digital disciples'
  
  
• Sourpusses hurt the church's witness, mission, pope says at Mass
  
  
• Blind singer-pianist says he relies on God to be his eyes
  
  
• Belarusian kids with cancer find home away from home at St. Luke's
  
  
• Church spokesman: Catholics not divided by remarks over women deacons
  
  
• Pope tells sisters the church needs them, they need the church
  
  
• Minnesota family endures son's suffering with help from Mary
  
  
• How a postage stamp delivered one boy a dream of being a Swiss Guard