Archdiocese’s Holy Childhood Association appeals to schools to help Haitian students

As part of a relief and response plan to Haiti’s victims of the recent devastating storms, The Holy Childhood Association (HCA) of the archdiocese’s Missions office is making a faith-filled appeal to archdiocesan schools for help in collecting school supplies.
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Nativity parishioner prepares to celebrate 100 years

Church of the Nativity, Timonium, parishioner Benilde Sansone still maintains two passions as she prepares to turn 100 – faith and food.
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Stories of Europe’s ‘secret sisters’ shared with those who helped

PITTSBURGH – Theirs is the great untold story of modern Europe – the “secret sisters,” who for more than 40 years under communism took their vows, lived out their calling and kept the faith alive, all in isolation and in constant fear of discovery.
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CRS evacuates workers from eastern Congo amid increased conflict

WASHINGTON – Although two Catholic Relief Services workers in eastern Congo have been evacuated to neighboring Rwanda amid the escalating conflict, they are planning to return to another part of the country as soon as possible to help with relief efforts, said a CRS official.
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St. Francis de Sales grows with Harford County

When visitors walk up to St. Francis de Sales in Abingdon for Mass, they are struck by a characteristic of the brick building: there is only one entrance to the church.
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Benedictine sisters celebrate golden jubilee

Benedictine Sisters Joanne Mastrogiacomo and Eileen Simms celebrated their golden jubilee, 50 years of monastic profession, Oct. 11 at the Carmelite Monastery Chapel in Towson.
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CRS evacuates workers from eastern Congo amid increased conflict

WASHINGTON – Although two Catholic Relief Services workers in eastern Congo have been evacuated to neighboring Rwanda amid the escalating conflict, they are planning to return to another part of the country as soon as possible to help with relief efforts, said a CRS official.
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Fordham gives ethics prize to Breyer despite protests

WASHINGTON – Jesuit-run Fordham University’s law school presented U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer with a prestigious ethics prize Oct. 29, despite a protest held outside the event and a call by a national Catholic organization to rescind the honor in light of the judge’s support for legal abortion.
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Pope says ‘first being’ created world intentionally

VATICAN CITY – The world did not emerge out of chaos; rather it was created intentionally by “the first being,” Pope Benedict XVI said.
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NDP wins with unparalleled pack

Who needs a star or two when you can deliver unparalleled pack running? Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, continues to make the point that cross country is a team sport, as the Blazers stuck together, figuratively and literally, to repeat at the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland championships Oct. 29.
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Stella Maris walks with families as they face hospice care

When James P. O’Conor Jr. was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and it became clear that treatment would not be successful, his younger brother took solace in the fact that James was able to spend his final days at Stella Maris.
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Catholics can find comfort in death, expert says

During her 30 years as a physician and pediatrician, Dr. Patricia Fosarelli has seen her fair share of death and mourning.
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