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This Week in Origins

Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 39, No. 8 (July 2, 2009):

-- The U.S. bishops' conference says a 2002 statement by a group of Jewish and Catholic scholars is not an authoritative presentation of Catholic Church teaching on the church's mission and Catholic evangelization relative to Jews.

-- Pope Benedict XVI calls priests to a deeper interior renewal for the sake of "a more forceful and incisive witness to the Gospel" in a letter released for the Year for Priests.

-- Leaders from Catholic health care institutions, the labor movement and the U.S. bishops offer an agreed set of principles aimed at giving workers in Catholic health care a "free and fair" vote on union representation. "The pain and damage from past disputes is real," they say. "But in our hearts we know the contentious status quo diminishes all of us."