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January 19, 2012

Baltimore Catholic schools to receive $3.5 million

A Baltimore-based Jewish foundation is pledging $3.5 million to Catholic schools in Baltimore in an effort to boost enrollment and attract even more financial support for urban-based Catholic education. In a Dec. 14 event at the Catholic Center in Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler of Baltimore and Donn Weinberg of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg...
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January 19, 2012

National leaders say spirituality a key component of Catholic Daughters

WASHINGTON – Libby Ramirez, who just completed two years as the national regent of the Catholic Daughters of the Americas, and her successor, Joanne Tomassi, said that beyond all the worthwhile programs members carry out, spirituality is the most important part of the organization.
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January 19, 2012

Ship visitors are lifeline to AOS ministry

Imagine living away from family and friends for months, facing isolation, depression, and loneliness while working backbreaking, sometimes 24-hour shifts on a container ship in foreign ports; sometimes with insufficient food, nothing to foster spirituality, delayed paychecks, meager entertainment and limited recreational time. Such is the reality for some merchant marines who labor intensively on...
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January 19, 2012

One Baptism, Many Cultures

We, baptized people, are very diverse, culturally speaking, within this great Catholic Mother Church that makes her way to God in the U.S.A. But what do we really mean by the word “culture” in our context?
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January 19, 2012

Religious leaders declare hope for Mideast, urge strong U.S. role

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Leaders of 29 national Christian, Jewish and Muslim organizations issued a joint call for the Bush administration and the new Congress to make Arab-Israeli-Palestinian peace a top foreign policy priority. Peace is "an essential of faith" in all three religious traditions, they said.
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January 19, 2012

British government removes online petition protesting pope’s visit

LONDON – The British government has removed from its website a petition protesting Pope Benedict XVI’s Sept. 16-19 visit to England and Scotland.
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January 19, 2012

Faith, determination inspire St. Athanasius parishioners to open hearts, wallets

When fund-raising efforts to restore the old church at St. Athanasius, Curtis Bay began in 2005, life-long parishioner Helen Swinko imagined it would take years before she would see the place where she received her first Communion utilized
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January 19, 2012

Revised sex abuse norms at a glance

VATICAN CITY – The revised Vatican norms dealing with sexual abuse of minors by priests and other “more grave crimes” against church law contain several changes from the previous version published in 2001.
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January 19, 2012

A basic guide to elements of Islam

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- With an estimated 1.2 billion followers, Islam is the second largest religion in the world. Islamic organizations say there are an estimated 6 million to 7 million Muslims in the United States; of those, 85 percent are U.S.-born.
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January 19, 2012

North Belfast priest says dialogue can help resolve parade tensions

DUBLIN – Fresh intercommunity dialogue is needed to resolve the difficulties surrounding controversial parades in Northern Ireland, said a Catholic priest in Belfast, Northern Ireland, following the most serious outbreak of sectarian rioting in many years.
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January 19, 2012

St. Jerome Emiliani

St. Jerome Emiliani, born in Italy in 1481, is the patron saint of abandoned children and orphans. He became a priest in 1518 and began to devote much of his time to helping orphans, especially during a plague in 1528. He founded orphanages, a hospital and a shelter for women.
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January 19, 2012

Blend of technology, theology gives Catholics inspiration on the go

TIVERTON, R.I. – With the simple tap of a touch screen, Father Jay Finelli has embraced an alternative way to spread the good news.
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