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Kayaking helps keep priest afloat

Father Brian Rafferty has a motor that won’t stop and the arms to match. After celebrating two early morning Masses at Our Lady of the Chesapeake, Lake Shore, on a sweltering June morning, the pastor was ready for more.
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G-8 summit faces challenge of reducing poverty during economic crisis

WASHINGTON – As the participants in the Group of Eight summit gathered in L’Aquila, Italy, July 8-10, the economic crisis gripping the world was getting lots of attention.
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Retired law school dean, widowed grandfather, ordained to priesthood

GARY, Ind. – A 71-year-old retired law school dean and widowed grandfather became one of three newly ordained priests June 7 in the Diocese of Gary.
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Holy Name Society looks to future

There’s still a lot of life left in the Holy Name Society.
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Cardinal, Washington official criticize move to fund D.C. abortions

WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Pro-Life Activities and a representative of the Archdiocese of Washington expressed opposition in late June to a provision in President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget that would permit taxpayer funding of abortions in the District of Columbia.
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Archbishop Rodi installed to head Archdiocese of Mobile

MOBILE, Ala. – Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi, a native of New Orleans who as bishop of Biloxi, Miss., was lauded for his leadership following Hurricane Katrina, was installed as the second archbishop of Mobile during a pageantry-filled liturgy June 6 at the Cathedral-Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
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Trailblazing PLD stepping down

Sister Joan Minella likes to joke that as a teacher at St. Patrick School in Mount Savage in the early 1960s, she taught half the population of the tiny town.
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Gerard McCarron, beloved coach and teacher, dies

In the athletic history of Calvert Hall College High School, Gerard McCarron was a standard-bearer.
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‘Life’ plate marks 10th year; has endured opposition over the years

WASHINGTON – Specialty license plates offer motorists a chance to express pride in sports teams, the military and a variety of organizations, and for the past 10 years a different kind of plate has promoted adoption as an alternative to abortion.
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Service enlivens faith for St. John’s grad

After Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf of Mexico, 17-year-old Cory Grimes joined a mission group of area Catholics to restore two storm-damaged homes in New Orleans.
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Illinois widow leaves $2 million to her parish

WASHINGTON – Before her death in October 2008, Alyce Christopher was a familiar face at St. Mary Nativity Parish in Joliet, Ill.
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