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Washington, DC -- For years, the killing of teenagers made the headlines. Yet, research shows babies under one year are being murdered just as often. There's a troubling new trend developing in infant deaths: Infants are being murdered at a rate nearly equal to teenagers. A new study shows that in 2000, for every 100,000 babies born in the United States, roughly nine of them were murdered -- up from 8.4 per 100,000 in 1990 and 4.3 in 1970. Rosemary Chalk, a child abuse researcher for Child Trends -- the nonprofit group that produced the study -- said the infant...

I think of all the parishes closing because of a lack of priests and I have been part of the cause, part of the problem.A resigned priest on his deathbed By Frederick Heuser The doctor has just left my hospital room. I saw the sadness in his eyes as he tells me the bad news. The cancer had spread through most of my body and further treatment would be useless. He said he would put my wife in contact with the hospice program to make the time I had left as comfortable as possible. “As comfortable as possible”—that phrase...

Chinook yields five GIs’ bodies By Roel PareÑo The Philippine Star 03/31/2002 ZAMBOANGA CITY — A salvage crew has recovered from 1,200-foot-deep waters the bodies of five of the 10 American soldiers whose MH-47E "Chinook" helicopter crashed off Negros Oriental in February, a US military spokesman said yesterday. US army Maj. Cynthia Teramae, spokeswoman for the US Pacific Command Task Force 510, confirmed that the bodies of the five crewmen were recovered during ongoing salvage and recovery operations but declined to identify them. She said the Americans’ remains will be processed by the US military at the Gen. Benito Ebuen...