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January 19, 2012

Nun in Fawcett’s hometown recalls her as ‘first-grader with pigtails’

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Sister Patrice Floyd remembers actress Farrah Fawcett as “a little first-grader with pigtails” at Christ the King School in Corpus Christ, Fawcett’s hometown.
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January 19, 2012

‘Apostle of the Alleghenies’ up for sainthood

The sainthood cause for Father Demetrius Augustine Gallitzin, a former pastor of St. Joseph in Taneytown and St. Patrick in Cumberland, has been opened by the Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown, Penn. Father Gallitzin, a Russian prince who was the second priest ordained in the United States and the first to receive all his holy orders in...
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January 19, 2012

People of faith gather to demand universal health care

WASHINGTON – Washington’s sweltering heat did its best to discourage people of faith from gathering at Freedom Plaza to participate in the Interfaith Service of Witness and Prayer for Health Care for All June 24.
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January 19, 2012

Pope’s goal is reclaiming Christian identity

VATICAN CITY – In the first two years of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI has focused on strengthening Christian values in a world disoriented by indifference, relativism and increasing secularism, said a top Vatican official. Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, made the comments in Milan, Italy, March 20 in a speech to Ethics...
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January 19, 2012

Diocese reconfigurations evolve in a rapidly changing church

(This is the first story in a series looking at diocesan reconfigurations through parish closings and mergers.) CLEVELAND – Just about every Sunday for the last dozen years, Pat Korcheck makes a 24-mile trek from her comfortable home in suburban Mentor to St. Cecilia Church in Cleveland's Mount Pleasant neighborhood for 9:30 a.m. Mass. She...
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January 19, 2012

Destroyed by fire, Grantsville parish to rebuild

The fire that devastated St. Ann in Grantsville two days before Christmas may have taken the tiny faith community’s church building but it failed to claim the parish’s spirit. Parishioners now worship in the chapel at Newman Funeral Home in Grantsville and the religious education program has adopted a home-based approach under the direction of...
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January 19, 2012

Doctor says drop the fireworks, go see a show

There’s a period right before and after July 4 when common sense seems to evade even the most grounded person.
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January 19, 2012

Bowie Kuhn dies at age 80

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Former baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn, who died in a Jacksonville hospital March 15 at age 80 from respiratory failure following a bout with pneumonia, once said he wanted to be remembered simply “as a good Catholic man.” In a 1999 interview with The Long Island Catholic, newspaper of the Diocese of Rockville...
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January 19, 2012

Mexican priest, seminarians shot dead en route to retreat

MEXICO CITY – A Mexican priest and two seminarians were shot dead while traveling to a religious retreat, said Archbishop Felipe Aguirre Franco of Acapulco.
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January 19, 2012

Baptism is rebirth as a child of God

One may wonder why the sacrament of baptism welcomes an individual into the church as an infant when the other sacraments of initiation, first Communion and confirmation, occur when the person is aware of what is happening. “The Catholic Church believes that the child receives grace at baptism,” said Father Leo E. Patalinghug, associate pastor...
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January 19, 2012

Cardinal George calls shooting at US Holocaust museum ‘appalling’

WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. bishops’ conference called the June 10 shooting at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum that left a security guard dead “appalling.”
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January 19, 2012

Father Kelmartin, area pastor, dies

Father John. J. Kelmartin, a former pastor of St. Bartholomew in Manchester and Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus who taught in several seminaries across the country, died March 7 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 83.
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