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January 19, 2012

Best prayer for Advent easy to find

What’s the perfect prayer for Advent? Ironically, it’s right under our noses. Most of us would concede that the greatest prayer is the Our Father, the Lord’s Prayer, the one Jesus personally taught us. Curiously, the perfect Advent prayer is the one we say at Mass right after the Our Father.
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January 19, 2012

Telling the tale Black Catholics in Baltimore

The coming of the Mill Hill Fathers to Baltimore was a landmark in the administration of Archbishop Martin Spalding. This group of priests was founded outside London by Cardinal Herbert Vaughan for the purpose of missionary work. On arriving in Baltimore, the black parish community of St. Francis Xavier was transferred from the care of...
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January 19, 2012

PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

St. Clement Mary Hofbauer School, Rosedale, invited Poe, the Baltimore Ravens mascot, to help raise money for St. Jude's Children’s Hospital. Students paid a dollar each to dress in Ravens attire and have photos taken with the bird.
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January 19, 2012

Grandmom coach keeps giving back

Mary D’Ambrogi no longer draws double-takes when she works a sideline at a sports event.
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January 19, 2012

Answers for the Aging: Advice for retirement planning

Question: My parents are in their 80s. They have been retired for 10 years. They have experienced their share of health problems, which have created some financial difficulties. Fortunately, we have a big family and we have been able to give them the financial support they need. My husband and I want to try to...
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January 19, 2012

Three Rosie the Riveters proudly remember World War II work days

In the early 1940s when women wore dresses instead of pants and worked inside the home, a phenomenon occurred – Rosie the Riveter applied for a job.
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January 19, 2012

School vouchers worth consideration

Educating our young people is crucial because they will be the movers and shakers in the coming generation. We should also be proud of the parochial elementary school system which has a proven record in preparing children for higher education and achievement in all walks of life. The Maryland Teachers Association has petitioned for years...
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January 19, 2012

More prayer and less rhetoric on life issues

I was extremely disappointed to read the angry letters from writers who are very upset by the election of Barack Obama. The majority of U.S. Catholics did not vote for Mr. Obama because he is “pro abortion.” I believe that I voted for a very moral man.
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January 19, 2012

Courage

To make a long story short: a priest of 11 years, I returned to my native Archdiocese of New York in 1976 with a doctorate in moral theology, all the while expecting I would be assigned to the faculty of our Archdiocesan Seminary of St. Joseph, Dunwoodie, in Yonkers. Such was not to be.
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January 19, 2012

Cyprian Rowe, leading African-American Catholic figure, dies at 74

WASHINGTON – Cyprian Lamar Rowe, a social justice activist, poet, author and leading figure in the African-American Catholic community in the U.S., died Nov. 25 at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson, after a long illness. He was 74.
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January 19, 2012

Congolese Catholics ask Canada to help stop war in their country

OTTAWA – A delegation of Congolese Catholic leaders appealed to Canada to help stop the war in their central African country.
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January 19, 2012

Keep focus on FOCA

The letter “Don’t be fooled by venomous writers” (CR, Nov. 27) attacked four of the five letters published in the Nov. 20 issue, which expressed anger and concern over legalized abortion. Three of those four letters addressed the Freedom of Choice Act. The letter falsely claimed one of the letter writers was praying for the...
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