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 Pace of parish closings quickens 
Several factors have converged to increase pace over the past 20 years.
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Bishops
urge G-8 to remember poor, address climate Catholic bishops in Group of Eight industrialized countries (including Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, below) have urged their nations’ leaders to remember the poor and address the issue of global climate change during the upcoming G-8 summit.  |
 Vatican urges U.N. not to forget world’s 1 billion hungry The international community must not forget the world’s poor as it strives to solve the global economic crisis, warned Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican’s nuncio and permanent observer to the United Nations. |
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finance report now available on web The independent auditor’s report for 2008 can be downloaded at www.oakdiocese.org/FS07-08.pdf. |
Teens,
young adults invited to rally, Mass at cathedral Youth rally and Mass with Bishop Salvatore Cordileone on Saturday July 25 will be the first major gathering specifically for young people since the cathedral opened. |
