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Western and Central Maryland volunteers honored

Volunteers are often the unsung heroes of Catholic schools. In Central and Western Maryland, they are truly being celebrated.
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CCHD ends funding to ACORN over financial irregularities

WASHINGTON – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development suspended funding a nationwide community organizing group after it was disclosed June 2 that nearly $1 million had been embezzled.
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Tens of thousands of youths gather for two pre-march rallies, Masses

WASHINGTON – At the first youth rally and Mass for life to be held at the D.C. Armory, nearly 10,000 young people from across the country were urged Jan. 24 to more fully live their Catholic faith and embrace the culture of life promoted “by our soon-to-be-beatified Pope John Paul II.”
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Catechists find ties that bind at annual Institute

Hope has become a buzzword in 2008. The Archdiocese of Baltimore sent a clarion call, however, that it is not a passing phrase at its annual Institute for catechists.
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Exorcisms continue to pique Hollywood’s imagination

TORONTO – The exorcism began after Mass as the exorcist and several parishioners gathered around a troubled young man and started praying over him, recalls Father Joseph Muldoon, episcopal vicar of the Ottawa Archdiocese.
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Catholic Medical Association adds new life

Amid the business attire, networking and note-taking that marked the Catholic Medical Association’s 77th annual Educational Conference, Patrick Tomeny stood out.
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John Carroll senior books music star for senior project, Jan. 22 concert

John Carroll School student Allison Lozinak dreamt big for her senior project. She wanted to bring one of contemporary Christian music’s biggest stars, Matt Maher, to the school’s Bel Air campus for a concert.
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Be careful how you invest

What profit a man if he gains on Wall St., but suffers the loss of his soul? Many eyes were on the bail-out of our financial infrastructure, perhaps an appropriate concern for normalcy in a modern material world. However, the true long-term investor may realize that his portfolio should include stocks that appreciate in the...
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Pakistani prelate calls official’s remark on blasphemy law ‘setback’

BANGALORE, India – Catholic officials in Pakistan expressed disappointment after Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani reiterated there would be no amendment to the country’s blasphemy law, which makes insulting the Prophet Mohammed or the Quran punishable by life imprisonment or death.
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Oblate Sisters of Providence break ground on new facility

They devoted their lives to educating and ministering to others, often in some of the most troubled urban areas of the country. Now the retired and infirmed Oblate Sisters of Providence are getting a state-of-the art retirement facility that will allow others to minister to them.
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Iraqi youths, unable to get to Sydney, celebrate WYD at home

BEIRUT, Lebanon – When Iraqi youths were not granted visas for World Youth Day in Australia, Iraq’s Chaldean Catholic bishops decided they would bring World Youth Day to Iraq.
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Newly created Archdiocese of Baltimore school board begins work

School Sister of Notre Dame Kathleen Feeley doesn’t want to see a world without her passion, Catholic education.
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