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January 19, 2012
January 19, 2012

‘Commando crawl’ and all, priests train to be chaplains

FORT JACKSON, S.C. – As the soldier leaned out over a length of rope stretched 20 feet in the air over a net, he began the “commando crawl,” a careful, hand-over-hand movement across the rope to a wooden platform on the other side. The other men and women in his platoon waited on the ground...
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January 19, 2012

South Korean farmers lament eviction

PYEONGTAEK, South Korea – Seventy-year-old Susan Kim Soon-deuk has toiled for 50 years to transform a tidal mud flat into farmland, but the South Korean government has taken it from her. “I feel victimized by the government’s plan to convert our village to a U.S. military base. I suffered a lot in reclaiming fertile farmland...
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January 19, 2012

Celebration of the Arts showcases students’ talent

Four Mercy High School, Baltimore, students gently touched the ivory keys on shiny, black, baby grand pianos, filling the lobby of the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall with music as hundreds of visitors viewed various works of art from aspiring young artists. On April 9, some 350 students from about 50 Catholic schools in the archdiocese...
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese offers counseling benefits to employees

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has begun offering a new benefit for employees and their dependents that will provide help addressing personal issues like problems with relationships, stress, anxiety, depression and substance abuse. Launched on Nov. 1, the "Employee Assistance Program" (EAP) is run through ComPsych Guidance Resources and provides no-cost confidential assistance.
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January 19, 2012

Father Faley to speak about St. Elizabeth

Father Roland J. Faley, T.O.R., former Minister General of the Franciscans of the Third Order Regular and author of "Footprints on the Mountain," will speak on the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary during Masses on April 14 at 4 p.m. and April 15 at 10 a.m. at St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Highlandtown.
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January 19, 2012

Papal nuncio calls teachers ‘greatest artists’

While many may consider Michelangelo to be one of the greatest artists of all time, Pope Benedict XVI's apostolic nuncio to the United States told more than 8,000 Catholic educators their daily ministry surpasses the artistry of the great Italian Renaissance sculptor. Presenting the April 10 keynote address during the opening session of the National...
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January 19, 2012

Australian bishop promotes World Youth Day

At the final Mass at World Youth Day 2005 in Cologne, Germany, Pope Benedict XVI announced to the crowd that the 2008 World Youth Day will take place in Sydney, Australia. Since then the country has been planning for the big event. On April 10, Bishop Anthony Fisher, O.P., auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of...
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January 19, 2012

Maryland Catholics help CRS

Maryland Catholics donated more than $84,000 for the annual Catholic Relief Services collection and more money from the Archdiocese of Baltimore is expected to come in throughout the year. The mid-February second collection baskets sent out to parishioners in churches throughout the archdiocese will help CRS with its relief efforts for victims worldwide of earthquakes,...
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January 19, 2012

Limited child protection audits find compliance

WASHINGTON – Twenty-seven of 29 Catholic dioceses and eparchies audited in 2006 complied with the church's national standards for child protection programs and the prevention of and response to sexual abuse, says a report released April 11. However, four dioceses that were not found in compliance in 2005 refused to participate in the 2006 audit.
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January 19, 2012

For Africa’s future, educate women

UNITED NATIONS – The best and cheapest way to prepare Africa for a better future is to educate all its youths, especially girls and young women, Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican nuncio to the United Nations, said April 10. Addressing the 40th session of the U.N. Commission on Population and Development, the archbishop said that according...
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January 19, 2012

Pontifical university in Peru caught in dispute

LIMA, Peru – The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru has been caught up in a legal dispute over who controls it. The university, widely accepted as the leading academic institution in Lima, has built a reputation of liberalism and activism for human rights. It is built on property bequeathed by Jose de la Riva Aguero,...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinals, archbishop honor Baltimore Catechism

Like thousands of other American Catholics of his generation, Cardinal William H. Keeler knows why God made him. “To know, love and serve him," Cardinal Keeler told The Catholic Review, paraphrasing the often-repeated answer he memorized as a child from the famous Baltimore Catechism. The familiar passage from the catechism is just one of many...
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