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February 9, 2017

Movie Review: ‘The Comedian’

With Robert De Niro as insult comic Jackie Burke, this is where funny has gone to die – cringing the entire way.
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Vatican official speaks at U.S. bishops’ bioethics conference

The head of the Pontifical Council for Life urged the U.S. bishops to stress the human dimension that is under threat of being ignored in the continued search for technological progress.
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Amen: Can Big Brother make you virtuous?

A government can’t make its citizens virtuous by bribing them or threatening them with punishment.
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Family Night with the Blast includes local Catholic products, Archbishop Lori

Archbishop William E. Lori will be present for the Baltimore Blast's Feb. 17 Archdiocese of Baltimore Family Night.
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Church needs religious orders’ courage, witness, pope tells superiors

The pope expressed concern about newer religious communities he described as "restorationists."
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Archdiocese of Baltimore releases financial report for Fiscal Year 2015-2016

Coming on the heels of a fiscal year that saw a 3 percent increase in parish offertory giving and increased support for the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s total operating income increased by nearly $2.2 million.
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Trying to decide when to panic (Part One)

I’m trying to decide when to panic.Standing where I am (somewhere in the middle, I suppose) I turn to face my friends on the left and panic is pretty much all I see. Well, panic and its more sober, productive, currently-popular relation: resistance. I see people who are more than
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Trying to decide when to panic (Part Two)

I used to think of myself as the stubborn, brave, independent type – the type who spoke the truth and stuck up for the oppressed no matter the consequences. After all, I was a kid who stood up to bullies. I regularly stick up for myself. I used to make
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