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January 19, 2012

Giving thanks one of four prayer forms

Thanksgiving might be considered the perfect holiday in the calendar’s lineup. No shopping for gifts, no wrapping required, no cookie-baking necessary, and most folks are treated to an extra day off from work to round out a perfectly good four-day weekend.
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January 19, 2012

Bon Secours Spiritual Center offers calming effect

Some groups that visit the Bon Secours Spiritual Center (BSSC), Marriottsville, request the Rocking Chair Room.
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January 19, 2012

Franciscans to repair Nazareth’s Annunciation grotto

JERUSALEM – The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, which coordinates Christian pilgrimage sites, will close the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation for four months for conservation work on the grotto’s rock.
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January 19, 2012

Anti-poverty program distributes $9.5 million in grants

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development, the U.S. bishops’ domestic anti-poverty program, is awarding more than $9.5 million in grants this year to support local projects that working to eliminate the root causes of poverty in the United States. The grants totaling $9,578,000 will be distributed to 314 projects in 46 states, the...
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January 19, 2012

Scholars troubled by remarks on Muslim dialogue

VATICAN CITY – After 138 Muslim scholars wrote to top Christian leaders highlighting shared religious values as a basis for working together for peace and understanding, a Vatican official raised questions about the possibilities for dialogue with Muslims.
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January 19, 2012

Rain blocks Philly Regatta for NDP Crew team

Leaving home hours before sunrise on Oct. 27, 14 members of the Notre Dame Preparatory School’s crew team were traveling north to compete in the Thomas Eakins’ Head of the Schuylkill Regatta. It’s an annual trek for the Towson Blazers’ club team but this year, the boats never hit the water.
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January 19, 2012

Cards celebrate water polo win

The Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, Cardinals dominated the competition on Oct. 27 during the MIAA water polo championships. No one could touch them, making it seven straight MIAA championship titles since 2001.
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January 19, 2012

Boonsboro children dress up for saintly parade

The saints came marching into Boonsboro Oct. 29 when 75 children – some wearing colorful flowing robes, angel wings or halos – paraded around town dressed as their favorite saints.
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January 19, 2012

Grotto of Lourdes retreat inspires holiness

When a group of ninth graders disembark at the National Shrine Grotto of Lourdes, Emmitsburg, for a day-long retreat Nov. 9, they will have an opportunity to breathe in fresh air, take in the magnificent mountaintop scenery and achieve a spiritual cleansing.
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January 19, 2012

Kidney recipients, now friends, train for transplant games

Mike Gahagan jokes that one of his kidneys is Irish and the other Polish. Actually, the kidneys aren’t his. The Irish organ belongs to his brother and the Polish one came from his wife.
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January 19, 2012

During wildfires, parish houses disabled evacuees

Fifty-eight residents of a Catholic care facility for developmentally disabled adults were among the hundreds of thousands of San Diego County residents displaced by the region’s wildfires.
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January 19, 2012

New Moscow archbishop to work with Orthodox

MOSCOW – Russia’s new Catholic archbishop has pledged to improve cooperation with the Russian Orthodox Church, while rejecting proselytism and helping resolve the country’s “pressing problems.”
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