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It is a ‘shameful tragedy’ people go hungry in the world, pope says

VATICAN CITY – One of the most urgent and critical social problems afflicting the world today is the “shameful tragedy that one-fifth of humanity still goes hungry,” Pope Benedict XVI told members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
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Maryland Catholics urged to engage in immigration dialogue

The Maryland bishops launched a campaign Nov. 19 urging the state’s 1 million Catholics to engage in a faith-filled dialogue on immigration.
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On train ride north, hungry migrants grab sustenance from Mexican women

LA PATRONA, Mexico – The horn sounds and the ground rumbles, setting off a mad dash by a group of women armed with food and drink for the hundreds of hungry migrants riding atop “the train of the flies.”
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Panel: Politics at a defining moment for Catholic social teaching

WASHINGTON – The current political environment provides a defining moment for the interplay of Catholic social teachings on issues Congress is facing, according to a panel of Washington-area academics in a symposium organized by the Life Cycle Institute of The Catholic University of America.
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Geologist uses church documents to predict earthquakes

JERUSALEM – Ancient church documents, some of them from the Vatican archives, are helping an Israeli geologist plot earthquake patterns to determine when the next big earthquake is most likely to take place in the Holy Land.
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Perrella, 59, ‘lived what the Gospel preaches’

A man who tightened the fabric of the Archdiocese of Baltimore was remembered Oct. 1 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
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Catholic Review claims 15 awards

The Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association’s annual awards convention April 23-24 at Westin BWI Hotel in Linthicum highlighted The Catholic Review’s excellence.
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Middletown parishioners help New Orleans parish

A team of volunteers from the Holy Family Catholic Community in Middletown is helping a New Orleans parish ravaged by Hurricane Katrina get back on its feet.
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The church’s Marines: Maryknollers older, fewer, but still going strong

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Their numbers are down, their average age is up, and their last names are as likely to be Vu or Gonzalez as Kelly or O’Brien, but one thing that has not changed about Maryknoll priests and brothers in the past century is their commitment to live and work among the poor in...
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Air Force hopes scholarship draws more service chaplains

WASHINGTON – To help fill vacancies and meet the underrepresented faith needs of airmen, the Air Force is offering a scholarship for individuals who want to become service chaplains.
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