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January 7, 2016

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, Baltimore native who worked for justice, dies at 87

Maryknoll Sister Helen Scheel, a Baltimore native who taught in the western United States and returned to her hometown to work for a third world advocacy project, died Jan. 4 at the Maryknoll Sisters Center in Ossining, N.Y
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Advice for Kim Kardashian (and other new moms of two)

Kim Kardashian and her husband, Kanye West, are shown in a file photo. (CNS photo/EPA) Hi, Kim. Congratulations on your new baby boy! I’m not going to do anything silly like ask how much sleep you’re getting or whether you’re cloth diapering or whether little Saint has his own fur
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Probing questions will help readers to ‘rediscover Jesus’

Heart is the key in “Rediscover Jesus.” He doesn’t preach; he doesn’t bludgeon. Rather, with a pastoral tone, Kelly speaks to readers’ hearts, guiding them in that journey, that rediscovery.
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Fordham professor’s slim volume offers insights on Flannery O’Connor

In eight brief chapters, “Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith” presents both the story of O’Connor’s life and the story of how she became, O’Donnell writes, “perhaps the most celebrated American Catholic writer of the 20th century – and justly so.”
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French bishops ask what has been learned since Charlie Hebdo attacks

One year after the attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, the nation’s bishops emphasized that religions must live and work together in society.
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Embracing a resolution that will last

Imagining change is easy. Implementing change is difficult. That’s why I question most resolutions. What you want is probably a good thing, but to reach that goal, you need to think of the journey as much as the destination.
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