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January 19, 2012

Thurmont parish celebrates Labor Day with fun

THURMONT – Just as Jane Sprague finished heaping creamy globs of homemade potato salad into a large bowl, it was time to fill another – and then another and another. Hundreds of hungry visitors had gathered in the parish hall in eager anticipation of the chicken dinner at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Thurmont...

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January 19, 2012

In new book, Columbia parishioner recounts ordeals in Vietnam

Hai Dang Nguyen’s world was crumbling around him in April 1975. The Communists were on the verge of completely overrunning South Vietnam and Mr. Nguyen knew he had to get his family out of the country.

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January 19, 2012

Brother James Horan, S.J.

A funeral Mass for Brother James Horan, S.J., will be offered Sept. 3 at St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore, at 11 a.m. A wake will be held at 10 a.m. Brother Horan, a Jesuit for 53 years, died of cancer at the University of Maryland Medical Center Aug. 29. He was 76.

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January 19, 2012

Houma-Thibodaux feared Louisiana diocese hit hardest by Gustav

NEW ORLEANS – Though it appeared Sept. 2 that the Archdiocese of New Orleans sustained minimal damage to its buildings and operations from Hurricane Gustav, New Orleans Archbishop Alfred C. Hughes feared the Diocese of Houma-Thibodaux was battered the hardest of Louisiana’s seven dioceses during the Labor Day-weekend storm.

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January 19, 2012

Mexicans protest increasing kidnap rate

MEXICO CITY – Manuel Ramirez last saw his daughter Monica in December 2004, shortly before she was kidnapped in this sprawling metropolis of more than 20 million people.

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January 19, 2012

Democratic Party courts Catholics, other faith-based voters

DENVER – The Democratic Party has made a concerted effort to court faith-based voters and party officials are happy to see religion come out of the closet at the Democratic National Convention.

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January 19, 2012

McCain selects Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as running mate

WASHINGTON – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, selected by Sen. John McCain Aug. 28 as his vice-presidential running mate, won the praise of Catholic leaders earlier this year for embracing the arrival of her fifth child, born with Down syndrome in April.

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January 19, 2012

St. John the Evangelist School remains tie that binds in Hydes

Sharon Kilby couldn’t hold back her tears. As she stood with her daughter, Sherry Ruckowicz, and 3-year-old grandson, Devin, in the back of St. John the Evangelist in Hydes, pride and memories overwhelmed her.

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January 19, 2012

New tabernacle places Eucharist in proper view

A new tabernacle at St. Margaret, Bel Air, was dedicated Aug. 24 during a Mass celebrated by Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, eastern vicar, and concelebrated by Monsignor G. Michael Schleupner, pastor, and Father Jesse L. Bolger, associate pastor.

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January 19, 2012

Retired Redemptorists moving to Timonium

Elderly and infirmed Redemptorist priests and brothers will be relocating from Saratoga Springs, N.Y., to the Baltimore Archdiocese, as the religious order recently signed an agreement to lease the fifth floor of the Pangborn Wing of Stella Maris in Timonium.

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