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March 13, 2012

Mount St. Mary’s protests HHS mandate in letter to president

Mount St. Mary’s University’s leadership wrote a sharply worded open letter to President Barack Obama in the March 12 Washington Post colaiming the new federal health care mandate compromises thier ability to provide health care in accord to their religious mission.
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Annual pilgrimage gets occupied

Baltimore Catholic youths are joining an Occupy movement – not that one, though. The Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage will be held March 31 with the theme, “Occupy Passion/Manifestar Cristo.”
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Young people well represented at March

Organizers estimated 2,500 people participated in the 33rd annual Maryland March for Life March 12, which is one of the larger crowds the event has drawn.
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Catholic teams in the Big Dance: Who has the best chance?

  The Jesuits might have more emotional investment in the NCAA men's basketball tournament than any other group in the country. Of the 68 teams vying for the national championship, six of them are from Jesuit colleges. Crieghton, Gonzaga, Loyola University Maryland, Georgetown, Marquette and Xavier are all run by the
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Chris Matthews and conflicted values

MSNBC photo   Chris Matthews, popular host of MSNBC’s ‘Hardball,’ was in town last week - plugging ‘Elusive Hero,’ his new book on President John F. Kennedy. During a public question-and-answer session following an appearance at the Enoch Pratt Free Library downtown, the tough-talking Matthews struck me as a bit conflicted. While he
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You May Like Them in a Tree

    Sam I Am would never have sold me on those green eggs and ham. I don’t hate eggs. I just don’t seek them out.     My sons, on the other hand, love eggs. Scramble them, fry them, add cheese or nothing, and our boys will gobble them down.   So most mornings...
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Godless rally coming to D.C.

   Earlier today I received an email about a rally that doesn't sound too dissimilar from the ones I have covered for years at the Catholic Review and CatholicReview.org. The main difference is that the March D.C. event is a gathering with a headline: "Celebrate living without God!"  The email statement said The Reason Rally...
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