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October 2012
October 31, 2012

Hurricanes, Halloween and Saints Jump Start “Year of Faith”

As October ends and November is upon us, there has been no shortage of opportunity for Catholics to begin strengthening our faith muscles as the “Year of Faith” moves into full swing.Today is Halloween, better known as the national holiday of candy. Little ghouls and goblins will likely be flooding the
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October 31, 2012

Let the light of Christ shine through you

A young boy was once asked what a saint was. The only saints he had ever seen were the saints in the stained glass windows in Church. So he replied very simply: “A saint is someone who lets the light shine through!”
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October 31, 2012

How you can help St. Frances Academy boarders

St. Frances Academy in East Baltimore opened the Father Joubert Boarding House for Boys Oct. 21. The house is a stone’s throw from the East Baltimore school. There are 11 boys living in the house, which had been home to the Christian Brothers, who had a mission at St. Frances. The homey
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October 31, 2012

Recent poll demonstrates urgent need for New Evangelization

The recent national poll of Catholics indicating the laity has more concern over economic and poverty issues than non-negotiable moral issues should be a wakeup call to American bishops that either they failed to adequately communicate the “social doctrine” of the Church or the laity and some theologians have decided to ignore it in favor...
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October 31, 2012

Statement on the teaching role of priests

Archbishop William E. Lori released a statement Oct. 31 on the teaching role of priests.
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October 31, 2012

American Catholic Church appears to have become more sheep than shepherd

It is tragic that it qualifies as national news when one Catholic bishop in Green Bay unabashedly urges his flock to vote according to the Church’s teachings on abortion and gay marriage: clearly stating that it’s sinful to vote for those who support those atrocities.
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October 31, 2012

Statement of Archbishop William Lori on the Teaching Role of Priests

I have been a priest for over 35 years. In that time, there is nothing I pray about more than the duty entrusted to me to preach the word of God. It is my first duty as a bishop, and it is the first duty of every bishop, priest and deacon. Preaching the word of...
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October 31, 2012

Charities, schools, parishes respond to ‘Frankenstorm’

Charities in Baltimore operated throughout the storm.
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October 31, 2012

Talleyrand and the hope for conversion

People regularly complain about the insincerity of our leaders, but none of them compares to the deceitfulness and hypocrisy of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord, simply known as Talleyrand, the spineless diplomat from revolutionary France. Yet, I believe one day he will be in heaven, and his life, therefore, relates an
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October 30, 2012

Reflecting on Hurricane Sandy and all the storms we face

 Our neighborhood used to be a thick pine grove before being developed in 1999. Some of the remaining pine trees border the back yards at the end of our court. As I watch the tall trees on the hill in our backyard garden dance and sway with the winds of
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October 29, 2012

Guest editorial: Same-sex parenting and sound science

The science used to cast homosexual parenting in a neutral or even positive light has proved unsound.
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October 29, 2012

Catholic Review Column: Question 4 and 6 and the New Evangelization

A few weeks ago, I joined a group of ecumenical leaders at Morgan State University in support of the Dream Act. A reporter covering the event asked me how the Church could support the Dream Act but be against legalizing same sex marriage. Weren’t we being inconsistent, he wanted to know. I told the reporter...
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