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January 19, 2012

Monsignor Lizor marks 50 years in the priesthood

Monsignor Joseph S. Lizor Jr., the pastor of St. Luke, Edgemere, first thought about becoming a priest when he was in the fifth grade.
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January 19, 2012

Zimbabwe church worker says strike must end

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – A strike by doctors and nurses in Zimbabwe is causing “untold human suffering and loss of life,” said the country’s Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. Sick and injured people are turned away from the main state hospitals “and their only other option is to go to private hospitals, which...
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January 19, 2012

Next steps proposed to attract new generations to religious life

WASHINGTON – At what one participant called a “critical juncture in consecrated life,” dozens of religious and Catholic lay leaders gathered in Chicago recently to hash out the next steps needed to attract young people to religious life today.
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January 19, 2012

Mexican activist praises Catholic Church’s work on immigration

WASHINGTON – Mauricio Farah Gebara, an official with the National Commission of Human Rights in Mexico, praised the Catholic Church in Mexico and in the United States for their “outstanding work on behalf of immigrants and their families.”
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January 19, 2012

Bishop bucks Vatican on marriage

MEXICO CITY – A Mexican bishop is bucking Vatican orders to erase a phrase in his pastoral plan that notes the desire among his indigenous communities that married permanent deacons be ordained priests. The phrase is not fanning the hopes of a married priesthood, but simply reporting the feelings of many indigenous Catholics, said Bishop...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic scholars in Baltimore

A “healthy” and “ethical” capitalism can coexist, but such a capitalism “must never be satisfied or justified when 14.3 percent of Americans are living in poverty,” said Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien in a Sept. 25 homily at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Church to investigate healings credited to British nun’s intercession

LONDON – The unexplained healings of two people from serious illnesses will be investigated as possible miracles that could give Britain its first female saint in more than four decades.
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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese takes vocations message to its schools

MILWAUKEE – In an age of complex, high-speed technology, the Milwaukee Archdiocese’s Vocations Office has turned to a method used in the time of Christ to help young Catholics determine God’s calling for them. “They went out two by two, just like the disciples,” said Father James Lobacz, archdiocesan vocations director, about members of the...
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January 19, 2012

San Francisco school mourns mom and daughter lost in San Bruno fire

SAN FRANCISCO – Janessa Greig, 13, an honor student and student body president of St. Cecilia School in San Francisco, delivered the introduction to the school Mass Sept. 9.
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January 19, 2012

Schools to reconfigure

Responding to continuing declines in enrollment and increased financial challenges, Our Lady Queen of Peace and Our Lady of Mount Carmel schools in Middle River will reconfigure in September in a move pastors say will strengthen Catholic education in eastern Baltimore County. The Queen of Peace campus will become the new home for both schools’...
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January 19, 2012

Poverty in Maryland and country rising at alarming rate

More Maryland residents are living in poverty than live in Anne Arundel County.
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January 19, 2012

Mount Carmel senior makes a difference

When Chelsea Tolley first started visiting women with developmental disabilities a few years ago at a group home operated by Catholic Charities’ Gallagher Services, the outgoing teen had a hard time making a connection with Joan. An elderly woman with bad knees, Joan refused to get in on the games, discussions and other activities led...
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