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Marriage … the beginning of the end?

Each year at the conclusion of the Maryland General Assembly’s 90-day session, a list of the session’s “best-sellers” – the bills most inquired about by the general public – is published by the Legislative Services Department. This session’s best-sellers include two measures which add a new term to our health and tax laws: “domestic partners.”...
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Schools honor veterans and those serving

Around the Archdiocese of Baltimore, students showed their support for veterans by participating in various celebrations and activities Nov. 11.
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Vatican completes restoration of mausoleum under St. Peter’s

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has completed the restoration of the largest and most luxurious mausoleum in the vast necropolis under St. Peter’s Basilica.
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O’Dwyer offers opportunity for leadership, hope

Twenty miles north of Baltimore City, an unassuming building blends in with the rural town of Sparks.
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Second column clarifies archbishop’s stand on Communion for governor

WASHINGTON – Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City, Kan., has reiterated his request that Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius not receive Communion until she publicly repudiates her support for abortion, but said he will not ask eucharistic ministers to refuse to give her Communion.
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Schools celebrate Blue Ribbons

Karen Smith and Karen Murphy shared a hug Nov. 6 inside the parish hall of St. Timothy in Walkersville.
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Fewer youths will attend World Youth Day than in previous years

WASHINGTON – World Youth Day events typically draw hundreds of thousands of youths and in some countries they have reached or surpassed the 1 million mark. This year’s event in Sydney, Australia, July 15-20 will be on a much smaller scale.
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Parishioner keeps history alive at St. Paul

History is one of the big reasons Jerry L. Harlowe joined St. Paul in Ellicott City when he entered the Catholic faith in 2006.
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‘A dream fulfilled, a vision realized’ Sisters Academy celebrates first graduating class

The size of the first graduating class of Sisters Academy of Baltimore, Lansdowne, is the same size of some Catholic families. Although the 10 girls are not all Catholic nor are they sisters, their connection over the past four years since the school opened has been like a family, more distinctively – a sisterhood.
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Bel Air boy who inspired others dies after two-year struggle with cancer

On a late October evening, Monique Spagna cradled her 1-year-old grandson, Carmine, in her Bel Air home. Another grandson, Luciano, ran around the living room chasing the family's new kitten.
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Federal court criticized for upholding ‘gruesome’ abortion method

WASHINGTON – A federal appeals court’s May 20 decision overturning Virginia’s ban on partial-birth abortion thwarts “the clear and common sense of our state’s citizens that a child who is almost entirely born should never be the victim of this brutal practice,” according to the executive director of the Virginia Catholic Conference.
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Mount wants to build trail on campus after student’s death

When Denise Ditch first met Elizabeth DiNunzio, she saw an “extremely shy, timid and scared freshman.”
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