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January 19, 2012

St. Bertilla

St. Bertilla Boscardin was born on Oct. 6, 1888, in Brendola, Italy. After working as a house servant when she was a young girl, she joined the Sisters of St. Dorothy, Daughters of the Sacred Heart in 1904. She began training as a nurse in 1907 and was later assigned to the hospital in Treviso....

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January 19, 2012

Overlea parishioner launches prayer campaign for priests

During his last daily Mass as pastor of St. Michael, Overlea, in June, Father James Proffitt encouraged parishioners to pray for priests.

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January 19, 2012

St. Sabbas

St. Sabbas was born in Cappadocia in 439. An anchorite as of age 30, he renounced the world in order to devote his life to prayer and work. He wove baskets, which he took to a monastery led by St. Euthymius to trade for food and materials to make more baskets. When St. Euthymius died,...

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January 19, 2012

Name change another step in Loyola’s evolution

Change is rarely easy, but few do it better than Loyola College in Maryland.

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January 19, 2012

Woman whose father knew Blessed Damien brings family back to Hawaii

KALAUPAPA, Hawaii – As Sacred Hearts Father Christopher Keahi handed out new “St.” Damien prayer cards in St. Francis Church in anticipation of the priest’s Oct. 11 canonization in Rome, a guest with a most special connection to Hawaii’s first saint sat in a middle pew.

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January 19, 2012

‘Bell rung?’ No, that player may have a concussion

Despite the reaction they elicit among many football fans and media analysts, a concussion is not a laughing matter, “Got his bell rung” and “dinged” have long been in the sport’s nomenclature.

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January 19, 2012

Saint’s daughter hopes to follow her mother’s example of loving life

WASHINGTON – Many people might say their mothers are saints but very few have an official church declaration to back it up.

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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese of Baltimore releases elementary school test scores

The following is a Sept. 10 news release from the Archdiocese of Baltimore:

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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese prepares for flu pandemic

Between fasting and holy water, churchgoers in the Archdiocese of Baltimore may want to add another item to their Mass ritual: the liberal use of a hand sanitizer.

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January 19, 2012

Senior is a fencing icon in Baltimore

Richard Oles was walking around the campus of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore when his ears picked up precise, metallic clinking sounds emanating from one of the sports practice rooms. Intrigued, the college student peeked inside and was even more amazed by what he saw.

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January 19, 2012

Father of modern science, Galileo challenged the church 400 years ago

WASHINGTON – When Galileo Galilei first turned his simple telescope toward Jupiter, the moon and then the sun nearly 400 years ago, it’s not difficult to imagine how amazed he was.

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January 19, 2012

Ted Kennedy, longtime senator, patriarch of famous family, dies at 77

WASHINGTON - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who died late Aug. 25 at the age of 77, stood firmly on the side of the Catholic Church on a wide range of issues from immigration reform to the minimum wage during his 47 years as a U.S. senator from Massachusetts.

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