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Philanthropist supports Mercy Medical Center

Mary Catherine Bunting, the granddaughter of the founder of the Noxzema Chemical Co., never had to work.
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U.S. ambassador says migration policies are ethical issue

ROME – U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Miguel Diaz said migration policies represent a growing ethical issue for the international community, requiring an examination of root causes and promotion of just laws.
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Summer reading: Darwin, design and divine intervention

VATICAN CITY – A series of articles on creation, intelligent design and Darwinism made reading the Vatican newspaper seem like taking a crash summer course in Evolution 101.
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Take a truly global view about global climate

Tony Magliano’s “Perspective” (CR, Nov. 15) recites the usual list of global-warming-alarmist slogans, but adds a Catholic twist by quoting Cardinal Renato Martino (head of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace), and implies that Cardinal Martino agrees with the IPCC report, the Al Gore movie, etc. In reality, Cardinal Martino would be categorized among...
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Survey shows big gaps in religious literacy

WASHINGTON – Catholics know about as much as Americans in general about religion, getting right only half of the 32 questions in a survey for the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life.
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Mercy project strengthens city, downtown corridor

Its outreach and impact have always been formidable. Now Mercy Medical Center is about to get an edifice just as impressive.
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Hopkins to mentor Notre Dame students

College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, and The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, signed an agreement to open the doors of Hopkins research laboratories to promising College of Notre Dame science students.
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Mercy sisterhood thrives 50 years later

Decades after they graduated from Baltimore City’s Mercy High School, Eileen Kohles Baird and Stacy Baird still wear their Mercy High School rings with pride.
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More than 35,000 pilgrims climb peak in Ireland to honor St. Patrick

DUBLIN, Ireland – More than 35,000 pilgrims climbed to the summit of Croagh Patrick for Reek Sunday, making this year’s journey one of the busiest ever.
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Texas group gives immigrant cemetery touch of dignity

SARITA, Texas – There is little evidence of dignity in the deaths of the undocumented men, women and children found among the south Texas cactus and brush over the past few decades.
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Doctrine committee says 2008 book errs in views on moral issues

WASHINGTON – In their 2008 book, “The Sexual Person,” theologians Todd A. Salzman and Michael G. Lawler “reach a whole range of conclusions that are contrary to Catholic teaching,” the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine said in a 24-page critique.
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Catholics celebrate feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Hundreds of Spanish-speaking Catholics are expected to attend the annual celebration of Our Lady of Guadalupe Dec. 9 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland.
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