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Caption: Maura Buckley, a teacher of deaf people and a catechist from Dublin, Ireland, speaks at a conference on
Maura Buckley, a teacher of deaf people and a catechist from Dublin, Ireland, speaks at a conference on "The Deaf Person in the Life of the Church" at the Vatican Nov. 20. Pope Benedict XVI addressed the meeting, lamenting the serious lack of public programs and measures to address the needs of deaf people. (CNS/Paul Haring)
U.S. bishops gather at national shrine in Washington for jubilee Mass

By Mark Pattison
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception -- the largest Catholic church in the United States and one of the largest Catholic churches in the world -- is celebrating its 50th anniversary but it is still a work in progress, as are the people who worship there, said a West Virginia bishop who was once the shrine's rector.

"Even as it still looks to the construction of this major dome over us this evening and countless other physical projects to make this an ever more beautiful building, these stones would speak about how this church and every church in Christendom is a 'work in progress,'" said Bishop Michael J. Bransfield of Wheeling-Charleston, W.Va.
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Caption: Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington uses a censer during a Nov. 19 Mass marking the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington uses a censer during a Nov. 19 Mass marking the 50th anniversary of the dedication of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington. (CNS/Bob Roller)
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THIS WEEK IN ORIGINS

Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 39, No. 25 (Nov. 26, 2009):

-- Chicago's Cardinal Francis E. George, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, discusses ministry, authority and church unity in a speech to the U.S. bishops' fall meeting.

-- Rising hunger caused by the world economic crisis only underscores the weaknesses of current food security mechanisms and the need for reforms aimed at promoting greater solidarity among nations, Pope Benedict XVI tells the U.N. World Food Summit.

-- What can Mary contribute to contemporary intellectual life? asks Marianist Father James L. Heft, a University of Southern California religion professor.

-- Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington, Va., says the death sentence of convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad -- recently executed by the state of Virginia -- should have been commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole.

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US political parties are marked by hypocrisy, says former papal aide
Joaquin Navarro-Valls, who served as Vatican spokesman for Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI, said both major U.S. political parties "run campaigns that are inspired by an asymmetrical ethics" in which a rule or ethical principle applies in one instance, but not in another.
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Recalling the great European cathedrals of the Middle Ages, Pope Benedict XVI at his weekly general audience said that the contemplation of art and beauty offers a special way to commune with God.

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Church-run reconciliation workshops in Zimbabwe that include lessons in political participation are drawing large crowds, say church officials in the southern African country.

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