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By Nancy Frazier O’Brien
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON -- Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., has reiterated his request that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius not receive Communion until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion, but said he will not ask eucharistic ministers to refuse to give her Communion.

The archbishop answered questions about his stand in the May 23 issue of The Leaven, archdiocesan newspaper, saying he had received “a significant number of pro and con communications” about his column in the newspaper two weeks earlier.

By Chaz Muth
Catholic News Service

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Catholic and U.S. Senate leaders applauded an agreement between Burger King Corp. and a farmworkers' organization signed May 23 to raise the price paid to laborers, which they hope will lead to an industrywide revolution in social responsibility.

Following a week at the negotiating table with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Burger King officials agreed to pay an additional penny per pound to the Florida farmworkers who harvest their tomatoes.

From Where I Stand by Joan Chittister, OSB	May 28, 2008
	Vol. 6, No. 2

This primary season, one of the strangest in history, is awash in nonconsequentials. It has swung back and forth between the statements of two pastors and the comments of two women, all of them at best secondary to the real issues of the time.

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Sr. Denise Coghlan talks about a movement to ban cluster bombs. (17 min.) If you don't see an audio player above, refresh your browser.

'Weapons that never stop killing'
An international conference taking place Dublin, Ireland, May 16-30, aims to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs, which Jacob Kellenberger, president of the International Red Cross, has called “weapons that never stop killing.” Tom Fox talks with Sister of Mercy Denise Coghlan who is attending the conference as a member of the Cluster Munitions Coalition is a global network of 200 civil society organizations working in over 70 countries to end the harm caused by cluster munitions.
Coghlan, an Australian, works in Cambodia, where the 26 million cluster bombs were dropped there in the 1970s are still claiming victims today. The Vatican and Catholic organizations, such as Jesuit Refugee Services, have been ardent supporters of efforts to ban cluster bombs.
Representatives of more than 100 states are attending the conference, although the United States, Russia and Britain -- some of the most prolific users of the small munitions -- are not attending.

Pope calls for strong, credible accord against cluster bombs

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

GENOA, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI called for a "strong and credible" international accord against cluster bombs, and he offered prayers for their victims around the world.

The pope made the remarks in the northern Italian city of Genoa May 18, on the eve of a major international conference on cluster munitions in Dublin, Ireland.

The Vatican repeatedly has called for a ban on cluster bombs, which scatter hundreds of submunitions or bomblets over a wide area. Most casualties of these weapons are civilian, and a high percentage of those killed or maimed are children.

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Sr. Denise Coghlan talks about a movement to ban cluster bombs. (17 min.) If you don't see an audio player above, refresh your browser.

'Weapons that never stop killing'
An international conference taking place Dublin, Ireland, May 16-30, aims to ban the manufacture and use of cluster bombs, which Jacob Kellenberger, president of the International Red Cross, has called “weapons that never stop killing.” Tom Fox talks with Sister of Mercy Denise Coghlan who is attending the conference as a member of the Cluster Munitions Coalition is a global network of 200 civil society organizations working in over 70 countries to end the harm caused by cluster munitions.
Coghlan, an Australian, works in Cambodia, where the 26 million cluster bombs were dropped there in the 1970s are still claiming victims today. The Vatican and Catholic organizations, such as Jesuit Refugee Services, have been ardent supporters of efforts to ban cluster bombs.
Representatives of more than 100 states are attending the conference, although the United States, Russia and Britain -- some of the most prolific users of the small munitions -- are not attending.

Pope calls for strong, credible accord against cluster bombs

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

GENOA, Italy -- Pope Benedict XVI called for a "strong and credible" international accord against cluster bombs, and he offered prayers for their victims around the world.

The pope made the remarks in the northern Italian city of Genoa May 18, on the eve of a major international conference on cluster munitions in Dublin, Ireland.

The Vatican repeatedly has called for a ban on cluster bombs, which scatter hundreds of submunitions or bomblets over a wide area. Most casualties of these weapons are civilian, and a high percentage of those killed or maimed are children.