Here’s how to help

When someone you know loses a loved one to death, you want to reach out, but may feel unsure of what to say or do. Here is some advice:
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Mid-field adjustment: Soccer star becomes seminarian

Chase Hilgenbrinck was happily living his dream of playing professional soccer for the first-place New England Revolution when he turned the ball over to God.
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Are you being called?

So you think you have a vocation to the priesthood? Try these steps to conquer your fear or confusion.
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PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

For the second time, St. Pius X School, Baltimore, received the School of the Year Award from the Maryland Center for Character Education for the school’s Character Education program. This program promotes values and ideals to help students achieve their fullest potential and future success and to become better Christians and citizens in today's challenging...
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On Having an Agenda: a Great Blessing

A vast army of senior persons have to decide how to use their time. Our successes in health care have given us years – even decades – beyond the once-ironclad sixty-five, but they haven’t filled the potential void. Our generation once thought we could glide down the sunset slope, making use of the education that...
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Escaping from slavery: The journey to liberation

Beginning around 1840 and until 1860, the “Underground Railroad” operated to liberate slaves from enslavement in the South to freedom in the North. The conductors of the railroad were former slaves and white abolitionists. The most famous conductor was Harriet Tubman, who escaped from slavery in 1849. After obtaining her freedom, she returned to the...
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Prayer helps in dealing with loss

This column will appear a few days before the presidential election. Obviously, some of us will be exhilarated after the election. Our candidate(s) will win! Others of us may feel depressed after the election. Our candidate(s) will lose. Such reactions are normal. We live in a sports-dominated culture. We think in terms of wins and...
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Virtues: Gospel proclaimed through good works

“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things” (Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1803, quoting Phil 4:8).
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Boonsboro parishioner leads effort to remember troops

When he was in the hot desert serving his country near Fallujah, Iraq, getting a letter from home was always a much-welcomed diversion for Kevin Hurlbrink. Hearing about loved ones back in his hometown of Boonsboro helped give him strength, he said, reminding him how much he was loved.
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Gibbons alum provides rides, better opportunities with Vehicles for Change

A Buick Le Sabre may not be everyone’s dream car, but for Janice Birkhead, it is a lifeline.
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A tale of two counties in Anne Arundel

In mostly affluent Anne Arundel County, huge pockets of poverty persist. The divide formed the backdrop for an Oct. 27 town hall meeting at St. Bernadette, Severn, where a Johns Hopkins researcher presented stark contrasts between the haves and the have-nots.
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Mexican American Cultural Center evolves into Catholic college

SAN ANTONIO – What began in 1972 as the Mexican American Cultural Center has evolved into the Mexican American Catholic College.
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