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August 9, 2012

Be not afraid of the adoption process

  When I listened to this NPR story, I had mixed feelings. I’m so happy that this beautiful family has adopted two daughters successfully. Hearing about their challenging journey to their second daughter, however, made me a little uneasy because of how it depicts the adoption process. Yes, adopting can be hard.
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Church of the Holy Spirit to open new parish center

After nearly three years without a parish center, parishioners and staff at the Church of the Holy Spirit in Joppa are more than ready for their new parish center to open.
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Jesuit Father Erhart, former hospital chaplain, dies

A funeral Mass for Jesuit Father Henry J. Erhart, chaplain at Greater Baltimore Medical Center in Towson from 1976 to 1992, will be offered Aug. 8 in Merion Station, Pa. He died Aug. 3 from pneumonia.
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Passing the Torch Series – Olympic Truth 3

  Collin was just seven months old when the 2010 Winter Games were held in Vancouver. Now, at the age of three, I feel obligated to explain the Olympics to him. So, I let him take a long nap on Friday so he could stay up to watch the opening ceremonies
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Sister Genevieve Kunkel, S.S.N.D., dies at 101

A memorial Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Genevieve Kunkel is to be offered at 10 a.m. Sept. 29 in the chapel at Villa Assumpta in Towson. Sister Genevieve died Aug. 6. She was 101 and had been a religious sister for 78 years.
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Holy smokin’ good barbecue

Father Leo Patalinghug reviews Mission Barbecue.
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What Congress XI meant to me

Kyle Taylor talks about his experience seeing thousands of black Catholics come together for National Black Catholic Congress XI in Indianapolis.
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Highlandtown parish booming one year after reconfiguration

Sacred Heart of Jesus–Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown is flourishing one year after becoming a bilingual parish.
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Seton Keough to welcome student with Down syndrome

Caroline Bodley threatened to cut her hair short and wear baggy clothes to look like the boy with Down syndrome at Baltimore’s Mount St. Joseph High School so she, too, could attend a Catholic school.
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Be a light in the darkness

Father Breighner talks about overcoming evil with good.
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Pastor made city a safer place

God filled Monsignor Damien Nalepa with passion for the Word of God and passion for the poor. He responded to that by serving wholeheartedly as a priest.
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Continuity

Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori talks about the opening of the Second Vatican Council.
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