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March 22, 2012

Mount de Sales senior collects, donates first Communion dresses

Molly Wheltle experienced a “Feeding the 5,000” as she aimed to collect 20 first Communion dresses for the poor.
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Educators agree: alcohol, drug awareness starts at home

A conversation Megan Ritchey had with her mother nearly four years ago about alcohol made an impression.
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Lent: Opportunity to teach magnanimity

On March 22, 1959, when the oldest of the baby boomers were in their early teen years, poet Robert Frost appeared on the Sunday morning television news show, “Meet the Press.”
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Maryvale senior soars to new heights

BROOKLANDVILLE – Maggie Rampolla said pole-vaulting caught her eye during her freshman year at Maryvale Preparatory School, when she saw a photo in the school’s yearbook of a fellow student attempting the event with the school’s track and field team.
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Religious freedom: Not just Pakistan and China

Thirty-some years ago, I spent a fair amount of time on religious freedom issues: which meant, in those simpler days, trying to pry Lithuanian priests and nuns out of Perm Camp 36 and other GULAG islands. Had you told me in 1982 that one of my “clients,” the Jesuit Sigitas Tamkevicius, would be archbishop of...
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Fix unjust immigration laws rather than subvert them

I am well aware of my foreign heritage and the sacrifices my forbears made adjusting to the law and language of this land helping to make it a much desirable place to live. So, I find disturbing the insinuation that anyone opposed to illegal immigration is opposed to immigration.
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