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Caption: Demonstrators who support and oppose a proposed Muslim community center hold signs in front of the site in New York. The 13-story, $100 million Islamic community center, which is to include a mosque, would be built near the former World Trade Center site. (CNS/Reuters)
Demonstrators who support and oppose a proposed Muslim community center hold signs in front of the site in New York. The 13-story, $100 million Islamic community center, which is to include a mosque, would be built near the former World Trade Center site. (CNS/Reuters)
Speakers of various faiths offer perspective on N.Y. mosque controversy

By Patricia Zapor
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Jewish, evangelical and Catholic speakers, some with backgrounds in national security and interfaith relations, called the controversy over plans to build an Islamic community center and mosque a few blocks from ground zero in New York "contrived" and likely to help those who would recruit potential terrorists.

"The individuals and organizations who are contriving this controversy seem to will that (a war with Islam) will come into existence," said Andrew Bacevich, a retired Army officer and professor of international relations at Boston University, in a Sept. 1 teleconference organized by the group Faith in Public Life. "It is absolutely imperative that we act together to deny them this."
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Caption: People pray during a Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City Sept. 1 to mark bicentennial celebrations of the country's independence from Spain. The main celebrant was Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City. (CNS/Keith Dannemiller)
People pray during a Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City Sept. 1 to mark bicentennial celebrations of the country's independence from Spain. The main celebrant was Cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera of Mexico City. (CNS/Keith Dannemiller)
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Editors: Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 40, No. 13 (Sept. 2, 2010):

-- The rewards and security that employers and society offer workers today for an honest day's work do not reflect the global economy of the 21st century, says Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in the U.S. bishops' annual Labor Day statement. It's time, he says, for a new social contract.

-- The head of the U.S. bishops' pro-life committee, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston, urges support for legislation that would permanently bar federal funding of abortion.

-- Are men's religious orders able to think creatively about consecrated life today? Archbishop-designate Joseph W. Tobin, a U.S. Redemptorist newly named second in command at the Vatican body that oversees religious orders, says the clergy sexual abuse scandal, an aging and reduced membership, and the demands of professionalism may have left the orders unable to comprehend the true nature of their crisis or to envision alternatives and opportunities.

-- Pope Benedict XVI appoints Italian Archbishop Velasio De Paolis, an expert in church law who specializes in religious institutes, to lead a major Vatican-mandated reform of the Legion of Christ.

-- Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone spells out the broad powers of authority Archbishop De Paolis will have in reforming the Legion of Christ.

-- In a letter to members of the Legion of Christ, Archbishop De Paolis says the Vatican's intervention was necessary to save the congregation and encourages its members to hold fast to their dedication to Jesus, saying they should not question their vocation but re-examine it in depth and renew it.
 
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