Flu forces high school seminary to hold graduation behind closed doors

MOUNT CALVARY, Wis. – High school graduation is a long-awaited day for seniors, a time when they’re warned about tripping across the stage as they receive their diplomas in front of family and friends.
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Gibbons’ cricket team embarks on historic quest

On an overcast morning of May 16, as players from The Cardinal Gibbons School took the field, the familiar sounds of the game rolled across a sea of green grass: the crack of the bat, the slap of the ball hitting a leather glove, the click of bails being knocked off stumps …
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Ireland’s abuse report: Stories from victims, stories from employees

DUBLIN, Ireland – The report by Ireland’s independent Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse highlighted stories from victims of abuse at government-run institutions, but also presented testimony by priests and nuns who worked at the schools and orphanages.
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Father Muckerman dies at 92; known for Catholic press work, ministry

LIGUORI, Mo. – Redemptorist Father Norman Muckerman, a former editor of Liguorian magazine and a former president of the Catholic Press Association, died May 19 at St. Clement’s Health Care Center in Liguori after a long illness. He was 92.
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Vatican offers new look at King Henry VIII’s complicated divorce

VATICAN CITY – A meticulous restoration and reproduction of a precious document from the Vatican Secret Archives brings new attention to one of the most complicated divorces in history – that of King Henry VIII from his queen, Catherine of Aragon.
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CRS to assist host families caring for displaced Pakistanis

BANGALORE, India – Catholic Relief Services’ country representative in Pakistan said the agency will focus on helping families who are housing hundreds of thousands of Pakistanis displaced by an army crackdown in the northwestern part of the country.
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Curley dedicates $4 million arts building

Saying Baltimore’s Archbishop Curley High School was following in a long Catholic tradition, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien helped break ground on the school’s $4 million arts facility May 19.
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Only 48 Gazans attended papal Mass, say Holy Land church officials

JERUSALEM – Only 48 residents of the Gaza Strip – about half as many as originally reported – were able to attend the May 13 papal Mass in Bethlehem, West Bank, said Archbishop Antonio Franco, Vatican nuncio to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
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Irish church, government leaders welcome abuse report, express sorrow

DUBLIN, Ireland – Irish Catholic Church and government officials welcomed a report by an independent commission on child abuse and expressed sorrow about the incidents it documented.
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Catholic Charities names new leader as Smith retires

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and the board of trustees of Catholic Charities have named William J. McCarthy Jr. to succeed Harold A. Smith as executive director of the Baltimore-based outreach agency.
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St. Maria Goretti student donates hair, time

Maria Jones, a sophomore at St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown, recently cut her 12-inch pony tail to donate to Locks of Love.
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Oblate Father Lawrence Rosebaugh killed in robbery in Guatemala

GUATEMALA CITY – Oblate Father Lawrence Rosebaugh, a U.S. priest with a long history of taking risks to aid the poor and marginalized, was killed in a highway robbery in Guatemala May 18.
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