Latinos seen as voting group key to outcome of presidential election

WASHINGTON – As pollsters and political analysts try to predict the outcome of the election, Latino voters have become a target for intense attention – by tea-leaf readers as well as the candidates.
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Oregon court’s ruling on frozen embryos raises ethical problems

PORTLAND, Ore. – An Oregon divorce ruling that frozen embryos can be considered as property confirms an outcome predicted and feared by Catholic leaders decades ago.
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Synod on Bible can ‘change Catholic culture,’ says Ottawa archbishop

VATICAN CITY – The world Synod of Bishops on the Bible “is meant to change Catholic culture,” said Archbishop Terrence Prendergast of Ottawa.
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Clergy, residents pray for peace in Cherry Hill

Teach the children well, so they may learn the ways of God before the ways of the gangs.
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Students handle business at hand despite economy

The stock market is ebbing and flowing, banks are seeking bailouts and businesses across the country are struggling.
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Pope urges doctors to respect patients’ value, dignity

VATICAN CITY – Whether a patient wants physicians to do everything possible to save his or her life or simply wants ordinary care, doctors must form a “therapeutic alliance” with each patient, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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CRS helps Sudanese refugees fight Egypt’s school-system hurdles

CAIRO, Egypt – The kids chasing a pigeon on a school patio in a crowded Cairo neighborhood have the usual childhood dreams of growing up to be doctors, teachers or engineers. The hurdles they face, however, are anything but ordinary.
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Gospels give framework for vocation ministry, says conference speaker

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Gospels provide a framework for Christian life and vocation ministry, said a speaker at the National Religious Vocation Conference’s biennial convocation Oct. 9-13 in Louisville.
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School Sisters celebrate 175 years of ministry

At a time when a rising tide of secularism threatened the church’s existence in Germany, a young Bavarian woman took a stand for her faith that would touch the lives of millions throughout the world for 175 years.
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Indulgences available at St. Paul

During the Year of St. Paul, which concludes June 28, 2009, pilgrims who visit St. Paul in Ellicott City may obtain a special plenary indulgence (remission before God of the temporal punishment of sin).
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Parish celebrate feasts of All Saints, All Souls

Across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, parishes will mark All Saints’ Day Nov. 1 and Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), Nov. 2.
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Law of God will prevail

Everything we do in life is controlled by law. Law governs our lives from the moment we are conceived, and the law governs the probate of our estate after our death, and law controls everything between conception and death.
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