What’s in that March Madness food?

Just because it’s March Madness doesn’t mean you have to go crazy with food. Millions of Americans will be munching on potato chips, gooey dips, chicken wings and more – washing it down with beer and soda. But what’s really in those foods? Take a look. It might make you switch to celery sticks and...
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Colon cancer screening can save lives

Father Joseph McDonough figured it’d be a routine procedure.
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Medinger is respected as visionary leader

Readers of The Catholic Review were lucky to have Daniel Medinger as editor of the newspaper for nearly 25 years, “Amazing Run” (CR, Feb. 19). His first priority was always news from parishes and schools that would be of interest and value to readers.
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Father Daly was off the mark on commodities traders

Re “The Common Good” by Father Peter J. Daly (CR, March 12), I have lived my life with the attitude of looking out for the next guy and believe most people do the same. Saying that, I have to agree with CNBC commentator Rick Santelli and the so-called risk-taking commodities traders.
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Needy Catholic students must be made a priority

Recent letters to the editor discussed the goal of making Catholic schools “affordable and accessible” to non-Catholics. Donald Reitz (CR, March 12) raises several issues. Is it prejudicial to deny non-Catholics access to Catholic schools? Of course, it is – otherwise public taxes would be used to fund Catholic schools and they would be called...
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People, Places, Things

During an immersion week in February, nine Calvert Hall College High School students and faculty travelled from Baltimore to the heart of the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana to live at the De La Salle Blackfeet School for a week, entirely immersing themselves in the culture of the Blackfeet Indians.
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Oregon sees highest assisted-suicide toll ever; Washington law begins

PORTLAND, Ore. – Oregon’s annual report on assisted suicide showed that doctors helped 60 patients take their lives in 2008. That marked the highest annual total since the Oregon Death With Dignity Act went into effect 11 years ago.
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Pope’s condom comments latest chapter in sensitive church discussion

YAOUNDE, Cameroon – Pope Benedict XVI’s declaration that distribution of condoms only increases the problem of AIDS is the latest and one of the strongest statements in a simmering debate inside the church.
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Archbishop pushes for full repeal of Maryland’s death penalty

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien reiterated his support for the repeal of Maryland’s death penalty during a House of Delegates Judiciary Committee hearing in Annapolis March 17.
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Archdiocesan Irish Catholics celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

Irish eyes were smiling inside an overflowing St. Patrick Church in Baltimore City March 17.
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‘Superstar’ actor makes playing Jesus his life’s work

WASHINGTON – Remember seeing “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the movies in 1973? Back then, a 29-year-old fellow named Ted Neeley played Jesus in the film setting of a Tim Rice-Andrew Lloyd Webber rock opera.
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