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Wisconsin priest joins caravan to Cuba

MILWAUKEE – In his 87 years, many memories have formed in Jesuit Father Bill Brennan’s mind.
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Bad bookworms: Precious library collection on Christian East risks ruin

VATICAN CITY – The Pontifical Oriental Institute has the best general collection in the world on Eastern Christianity.
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Buckeystown youths fast to help hungry

Sixteen hours since he last had a full meal, 15-year-old Evan Kadan’s stomach was growling and he wasn’t feeling like himself.
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Bishops might meet to discuss Chavez proposal

CARACAS, Venezuela – Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas said the Venezuelan bishops’ conference might have a special meeting to discuss Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s proposed constitutional reform. The proposal “concerns the life of the Venezuelan people, of the Catholics of Venezuela and the rights of everybody,” he said. The cardinal said Venezuelan Catholics should...
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Catholic experts: Japan disaster raises ethical questions about energy

LIMA, Peru – The ongoing nuclear plant disaster in Japan raises not only environmental and health issues, but ethical questions about energy use and the future of nuclear power, according to Catholic scholars and other ethicists.
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St. Timothy youths support Haiti

St. Timothy in Walkersville got to test out the acoustics in Lystra Hall of their new parish center Nov. 16 during an open mic night to benefit an upcoming teen service trip to their sister parish, St. Jérôme, in Haiti.
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Shortage of management could hamper nonprofits

WASHINGTON – Nonprofit organizations will face a serious shortage of senior leaders in the next decade unless efforts are made now to recruit and retain outstanding managers, a consultant to nonprofits told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.
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Canadian baby flown to St. Louis Catholic hospital for treatment

WASHINGTON – Bobby Schindler said he can see parallels between the case of a Canadian infant known as “Baby Joseph” and the situation of his late sister, Terry Schiavo, who died in 2005 13 days after a court ordered her feeding tube removed.
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Cards hoping for upset in Turkey Bowl

In his players at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, Coach Donald Davis sees reflections of the kid who used to be him – especially this time of year, when the Cardinals prepare to face Loyola in the annual Turkey Bowl at Ravens Stadium.
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Roger Taney may get the boot

A bust of the first Catholic Chief Justice of the United States may get booted from its prominent perch in front of Frederick’s City Hall if a group of civil rights activists gets its way. Pointing to Chief Justice Roger Taney’s role in writing the controversial Dred Scott v. Sanford decision that declared blacks to...
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‘Do Ashes Make a Difference?’

As is usually the case, churches across the Archdiocese were especially well attended this Ash Wednesday, a helpful sign that some Catholics whom we do not see at Mass too often are still aware of their faith. Please God, the Lord used the opportunity to draw them more closely into His life and love.
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Downturn brings call for extension of unemployment benefits

WASHINGTON – Behind the grim statistics about the nation’s rising jobless rate are men and women who need help, according to Catholic Church officials and economists at Catholic universities.
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