The Search for Homegrown Priests
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As seminary enrollment has sagged, Chicago's Catholic Church is trying to recruit priests who reflect the diversity of their flock
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The globe-trotting priest from Connecticut drove a Jaguar, shopped at Bergdorf Goodman and bought jewelry from Cartier, all of it with money stolen from his church's coffers. By the time the parish finance council caught on, he had embezzled $1.3 million.
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ALBANY, New York  - Some are Catholics who see   their church as stuck in the past. Others are believers who   happen to be divorced, pregnant before marriage or gay. A few   just can't find a priest when they need one.
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Priests and estate agents are rarely mistaken for each other. The former have signed a contract with the Lord, while the latter, it is widely thought, are more likely to be in league with the devil
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By Aaron Nelsen ? The Brownsville Herald, The Brownsville Herald, Texas  Jun. 24--Frustrated with declining interest and ineffective methods of recruiting young people to their order of Catholic teaching, the Marist Brothers took a leap of faith into the Digital Age.
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Benedict XVIÂs visit to his home turf in Germany will be in some ways a survey of the remnant that is the European church.
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Detroit Catholic Cardinal Adam Maida is launching a controversial yearlong study of his 304 parishes and 138 schools in metro Detroit to prepare for mergers and closings, due mainly to the ever-worsening priest shortage.
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Mexico's Grim Reaper grows more popular among Mexican immigrants but becomes a headache for the Catholic Church
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Â· Archbishops to draw up historic covenantÂ· Conservatives see chance to crack down on dissent
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New plays by Michael Murphy and John Patrick Shanley explore the reaction of church members to suspected sex abuse by priests.
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MOUNT OMINE, Japan -- At 5 a.m. on a summer day already sticky with humidity, three dozen ascetic priests known as ''yamabushi&quot; -- ''those who lie down in the mountains&quot; -- have gathered at the foot of this mountain in southern Japan to pray before climbing its sacred slopes.
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BEIT LAHIYA, Gaza Strip -- An American priest and nun spent several hours yesterday at a militant's house that Israel has targeted for destruction, the first foreigners to join a weeklong standoff between Palestinian "human shields" and the Israeli Air Force.
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The cardinals of two of the most   important Roman Catholic dioceses in North America were accused   in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday of allowing a priest wanted for   multiple sex abuse to flee California for Mexico.
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LONDON-- More than 5,000 Catholics attend Masses every Sunday at Our Lady Mother of the Church, packing the old stone church so completely that loudspeakers were  recently installed outside so the overflow crowd can hear.
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William Skylstad was born on a table in the garage of his family&#39;s home in rural Omak, Wash. At 14, he left to attend a seminary in Ohio, and as a Catholic priest
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla. - A priest accused along with another clergyman of stealing more than $8 million from their church once griped that an audit of parish funds was "a waste" of money that "should be spent more wisely," newly released court documents show.  The Revs.
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A decree this month by Pope Benedict allowing wider use of the old Latin mass has spawned a veritable cottage industry in helping Roman Catholic priests learn how to celebrate the centuries-old rite.