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This Week in Origins

Contents of Origins CNS Documentary Service, Vol. 38, No. 12 (Aug. 28, 2008):

-- Political candidates should be held accountable for the immigration policy mess, says Los Angeles' Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, who says politicians should be asked how they would fix the broken system.

-- Vatican directives on the liturgical use of the term "Yahweh" require no changes in official liturgical texts used in the United States but could impact some music choices, says Bishop Arthur J. Serratelli of Paterson, N.J., who heads the U.S. bishops' worship committee.

-- Directives from the Vatican's worship congregation remind bishops' conferences that the term "Yahweh" is not to be used as the name of God in the liturgy.

-- In these tough economic times, Catholic social teaching challenges policymakers -- and voters -- to assess the large economic issues by their impact on the average working man and woman at home and abroad, says Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., in the U.S. bishops' annual Labor Day statement.

-- Had Pope Paul VI's 1968 encyclical on artificial contraception reached a different conclusion, it would have undermined all of the church's teaching on the dignity of the human person, says Bishop William E. Lori of Bridgeport, Conn.