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Speaker urges educators to teach students empathy

INDIANAPOLIS – Daniel Pink, an author of books on the changing work world, told Catholic educators March 27 at the National Catholic Educational Association convention in Indianapolis they need to prepare students differently to succeed in today’s work force.
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Dundalk parish benefits from faithful volunteer

Dorothy “Dot” Rego just completed her 40th year of work in Dundalk’s Our Lady of Hope-St. Luke School library and her 80th birthday is looming.
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THE POWER OF LOVE: Mother fights to give her children education

Molly Hennessey wrapped her arms around her mother, Karen, as the two sat at the dinner table of the family’s Ellicott City home, the wind of a February night howling outside.
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Catholic novelist Jon Hassler dies at 74

ST. LOUIS PARK, Minn. – A funeral Mass was scheduled for March 27 at the Basilica of St. Mary in Minneapolis for Jon Hassler, an award-winning novelist and a professor emeritus of fiction at St. John’s University in Collegeville.
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Wrongful convictions, improper jailing, plague Mexican legal system

SALTILLO, Mexico – Martin Cantu prays the rosary every morning in the Christ the Prisoner Chapel, where he also attends Mass twice weekly. The deeply Catholic father of four spends his days sewing jackets in a prison workshop and passes much of his spare time reading the Bible and pondering the allegations of fraud that...
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Former ad man has a new message, and it’s all about Jesus

Pallottine Father Salvatore C. Furnari says he had always heard God calling him to the priesthood.
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Loyola College makes top 50

In the March 10 issue of BusinessWeek, The Sellinger School of Business and Management of Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, was listed as one of the top 50 undergraduate business schools in the nation at number 45. This is the magazine’s third annual “Best Undergrad B-Schools” survey for which more than 125 schools were eligible...
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Cathedral parishioner swims for U.S. in Rome, Paris and now Shanghai

There are days when Elizabeth Pelton laments rising before 5 a.m. to train or the necessity of using Skype to have her father join family dinners in Ruxton, but those sacrifices all seem worth it this week.
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Trade pleasures for prayer this Lent

On Ash Wednesday, we began Lent. Lent runs from Ash Wednesday until the Mass of the Lord’s Supper on Holy Thursday. Pope John Paul II, our late great pope, made the following statement. “Lent is a time of profound truth which brings conversion, restores hope and by putting everything back in its proper order brings...
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Baltimore women to lead Mission Helpers

The Mission Helpers of the Sacred Heart elected three Baltimore women to their four-person leadership team.
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Blogging for clarity: Fides launches site for Chinese Catholics

VATICAN CITY – Sometimes the need for delicacy in handling politically sensitive situations conflicts with the need of the faithful to have clear guidance. That’s what seems to be going on with the Vatican’s China policy, particularly surrounding the ordination in June of a bishop without papal approval.
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Seton Keough senior thrives in spotlight

When Beth Amann took the stage as Dorothy Gale in “The Wizard of Oz” three years ago at The Seton Keough High School, she was a freshman looking for a niche.
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