Cardinal Dulles gives farewell speech as professor

NEW YORK – Warmth and congeniality characterized Cardinal Avery Dulles’s farewell address April 1 as the Laurence J. McGinley professor of religion and society at Jesuit-run Fordham University.
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Take me out to the ballpark – with the pope

The new Nationals Park in Washington, D. C., officially opened March 30. By the time Pope Benedict XVI arrives at the first “green” major league baseball stadium in the United States, the smell of peanuts and Crackerjacks will have permeated the air for only seven Washington Nationals home games.
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Mercy High’s president is committed to Catholic education

She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a...
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Stella Maris offers care in private rooms

Earlier this month, Stella Maris opened a new, 29-room nursing home unit that offers private rooms.
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Basilica Place residents contribute to the less fortunate

As a resident on a limited income at Catholic Charities’ Basilica Place Apartments Senior Housing facility in Baltimore, 73-year-old Herb Johnson doesn’t have a lot of change to spare.
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Allergic population on the rise, but so are medical advances

As a child, Wesley Cianchette of Baldwin dealt with severe asthma, and a host of environmental components could trigger attacks that left him breathless.
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World now has greater number of Muslims than Catholics

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said that, for the first time, the world’s Muslim population is greater than the number of Catholics.
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Bishop says he won’t go to Catholic college’s graduation

ERIE, Pa. – Erie Bishop Donald W. Trautman said March 31 he will not attend May graduation ceremonies at Mercyhurst College because of the school’s decision to allow Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton of New York to hold a campaign rally on campus April 1.
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At Vatican, pilgrims remember pope as man of peace

VATICAN CITY – Pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square to mark the third anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death remembered him as a man of peace and a pastoral father who inspired a whole generation of young people around the world.
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Pope to get ‘official papal skateboard’ from youths

NEW YORK – When Pope Benedict XVI returns to the Vatican, he’ll be toting a gift not generally associated with an 81-year-old pontiff. He’ll take home the “official papal skateboard,” a gift from the youths of New York.
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From Rome and about seminarians

This week finds me away from Baltimore and enjoying, absorbing the spiritual grandeur of Rome, the world’s Eternal City.
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Texas seminary rector named bishop of Shreveport

WASHINGTON – The rector of Holy Trinity Seminary in Irving, Texas, Monsignor Michael G. Duca, has been named bishop of Shreveport, La., by Pope Benedict XVI.
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