YWCA leadership award presented to college president

Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.
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Archbishop disputes use of his words by Roman Catholics for Sen. Obama

DENVER – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Denver is disputing the use of his words on a Web site run by the group Roman Catholics for Sen. Barack Obama ‘08 to justify support for a candidate who supports keeping abortion legal.
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SEC sues Washington Archdiocese’s CFO for alleged fraud while at AOL

WASHINGTON – J. Michael Kelly, chief financial officer of the Archdiocese of Washington, is among eight former America Online executives who have been named in civil lawsuits filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with an alleged accounting scheme that inflated the company’s reported advertising revenues.
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Doctrine with calmness and clarity

Last week’s Catholic Review related the return to the Church after many years of the best-selling novelist Anne Rice – make that Anne O’Brien Rice (no relation)! Married to an atheist in her late teens and now 66, she described most of her adult life in terms of “despair, guilt and search for meaning and...
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St. Wenceslaus is ‘beacon of hope’ in Baltimore

One by one, the banners were carried to the altar of St. Wenceslaus on May 18.
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Esperanza Center gives hope to immigrant clients

As Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien prepared to bless Catholic Charities’ Esperanza Center in Fells Point May 20, he described it as “one of the many jewels” he has inherited as Baltimore’s archbishop.
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Governor to sign marriage bills

Despite a written plea from Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien for Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to veto two domestic partnership bills, the governor was expected to sign the controversial measures into law as The Catholic Review went to press May 20.
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Suit seeks minimum of $250,000 in damages from Catholic Online

WASHINGTON – A prosecutor in an upcoming civil trial is seeking a minimum of $250,000 in punitive damages from Catholic Online, a California media organization, and its president, who are accused of diverting funds intended for charitable causes.
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Vatican says 2005 document on gays applies to all seminaries

VATICAN CITY – In a clarification approved by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican said its 2005 document prohibiting the admission of homosexuals to the priesthood applies to all types of seminaries.
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Priests newly ordained for Chicago Archdiocese are all foreign-born

CHICAGO – None of the 11 new priests the Archdiocese of Chicago ordained May 17 were born in the archdiocese, or even in the United States.
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Sister still wears POW bracelet 40 years after war

Most people don’t recognize what the plain, nickel-plated bracelet is circling the right wrist of Sister Stacy Gunnip, S.S.N.D. They think it’s an ID bracelet.
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Memorial Day may have begun with a small, touching moment

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.
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