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January 19, 2012

Eighth-graders create winning film on U.S. trade embargo

HIALEAH, Fla. – All they knew about the U.S. embargo on trade with Cuba is what they had heard from their parents and grandparents. They knew even less about filming a documentary.
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Sibling rivalry on the air

It was going to be quite a challenge for 16-year-old Cara Paul, a junior at Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville. She was getting ready to compete in the country’s longest running TV game show, “It’s Academic,” to be taped at Baltimore’s WJZ-TV.
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Bishop Malooly awards 35 archdiocesan Medals of Honor

In an April 13 prayer service and ceremony at St. Ann in Hagerstown, Bishop W. Francis Malooly, western vicar, will recognize the outstanding service of 35 Catholics in the central region of the western vicariate by conferring on them the archdiocesan Medal of Honor. The medal is made of lucite with the coat of arms...
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Turning stadium into cathedral for a day a challenge

WASHINGTON – Converting a baseball stadium into a cathedral for a day has been a monumental task. “We’re doing everything possible to turn the stadium into a holy and beautiful place,” Father Mark Knestout, director of the Archdiocese of Washington’s Office of Worship, told the Catholic Standard, the archdiocesan newspaper.
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No free-for-all: Papal visits follow tight framework

VATICAN CITY – When Pope Benedict XVI sits down with interreligious leaders in Washington April 17, the participants will follow a set program that leaves little room for surprises.
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Sibling rivalry on the air

It was going to be quite a challenge for 16-year-old Cara Paul, a junior at Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville. She was getting ready to compete in the country’s longest running TV game show, “It’s Academic,” to be taped at Baltimore’s WJZ-TV.
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Bishop Malooly awards 35 archdiocesan Medals of Honor

In an April 13 prayer service and ceremony at St. Ann in Hagerstown, Bishop W. Francis Malooly, western vicar, will recognize the outstanding service of 35 Catholics in the central region of the western vicariate by conferring on them the archdiocesan Medal of Honor. The medal is made of lucite with the coat of arms...
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Loyola Blakefield appoints new upper school principal

Anthony I. Day has been named new upper school principal of Loyola Blakefield, Towson, to succeed Christopher J. Post. Mr. Day is currently assistant principal at Regis High School, N.Y.
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Church official condemns fatal shootings of local journalists

MEXICO CITY – A church official in Mexico’s poor southern state of Oaxaca condemned the fatal shootings of two Triqui Indian community radio announcers, saying it was a crime of repression against independent media operators.
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Cardinal discusses use of slave labor during WWII

MAINZ, Germany – A German cardinal said a report detailing how the church used slave laborers during World War II was an “important building block” for reconciliation.
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Universities must teach church’s intellectual tradition

PITTSBURGH – In America and the world today, many people perceive religion and intellectual life as adversaries, but a major task of a Catholic university is to counteract this view by revealing the depth and riches of the Catholic intellectual tradition, according to Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago.
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John Carroll is poised for a repeat in 2008

The 2007 defending IAAM A Conference lacrosse champions, the John Carroll Patriots, are on a roll this spring, and their season just keeps getting better and better.
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