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Vatican media welcome Obama’s speech in Cairo as step toward peace

VATICAN CITY – U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech in Cairo, Egypt, was welcomed by Vatican media as a step toward peace and a new beginning in American relations with Muslims.
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One school, two campuses and room to grow

One year after the announcement that Our Lady Queen of Peace School, Middle River, would close, the classrooms are full – of preschoolers and infants.
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Middle River’s Dingle notches 53 K’s

It’s been a cold start to the spring sports season, making it challenging at times for coaches to get the best performances from their athletes.
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Father Breighner highlights good people

I have read and re-read Father Breighner’s heart warming article (CR, May 21), “Focus On The Good In Life, Not The Evil.” It was a well-written story about two women who did nothing but good for others.
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Norms for saints’ causes call for careful study

VATICAN CITY – In a new set of rules encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is requiring dioceses to be more meticulous and objective when they prepare local sainthood causes.
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Time in Afghanistan made deacon grateful for country, religious freedom

HARLINGEN, Texas – When Deacon Catarino Villanueva arrived on Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan, in 2005 for a yearlong deployment with the National Guard, he immediately looked for opportunities to practice his Catholic faith.
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Priest’s decision to be an Episcopalian said to harm church relations

MIAMI – Archbishop John C. Favalora of Miami expressed disappointment May 28 at both Father Alberto Cutie's decision to join the Episcopal Church and the public way he was received into his new church.
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IAAM names winter all-stars

The Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland named the following Catholic high school athletes winter sports all-stars.
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Bishop Blaire calls for good stewardship to protect God’s gift of air

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The gift of clean air provided by God to humanity deserves to be protected through strong environmental stewardship by making changes in daily life so that fewer pollutants enter the atmosphere, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Domestic Justice Human Development.
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Blue Mass honors police, firefighters

The Sunday morning quiet on Cathedral Street was disrupted May 24, when a Baltimore City Fire Department hook and ladder truck pulled in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
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In Gaza, electricity–or lack thereof–powers daily activities

JERUSALEM – The first question friends in the Gaza Strip ask each other when they meet these days is, “Do you have electricity?” “Three days a week we have no electricity for eight hours straight, depending on the area,” said Omar Shaban, project manager for the Gaza office of the U.S. bishops’ Catholic Relief Services....
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Latin America’s indigenous demand voice in use of their lands

LIMA, Peru – Most of the environmental battles Brother Paul McAuley fights seem endless, mainly conflicts between indigenous communities and loggers operating on their lands or oil companies that have spilled toxic substances into their waterways.
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