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...addition, Nobel Prize Laureate Bishop Desmond Tutu and Dubois Professor of the Humanities Henry Louis “Skip” Gates Jr., among others, have joined the Unite Against AIDS Summit Advisory Board...
...approximately 5:30 p.m., a Cambridge resident reported that her two juvenile daughters were approached by a male approximately 40 years old, who made sexually explicit comments to them while they were at 710 Bishop Allen...
...aren't the only ones helping fill the pews in the Charlotte diocese. Mexican immigrants are the fastest-growing group, and Hispanics as a whole make up half the diocese's 300,000 Catholics. Thousands of Vietnamese and Filipino Catholics are settling in too. "I've wondered often how bishops in the Northeast handled the waves of immigration in the 19th and 20th centuries," says Bishop Peter Jugis, 47, who took over the diocese in 2003. "It's exciting." It also transcends demographics: the newcomers are practicing a more conservative Catholicism than their brethren in many other parts...
...church is being born again in the cradle of born-again Christianity--the South. The Catholic population in Charlotte is growing almost 10% a year, and the ratio of newly ordained priests to parishioners there is 1 to 7,000, more than seven times as high as Chicago's. Bishop Jugis last year blessed five new churches in the diocese...
...head of the church," said a priest based in Rome. "But he's more of a figurehead. He's not making the day-to-day decisions anymore." Insiders say the Pope, for example, increasingly rubber-stamps the recommendations of Giovanni Battista Cardinal Re, head of the Congregation for Bishops, who submits names for each new bishop to be appointed...