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Group sees progress, but more aid is needed

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Angel A. Aloma had a mission when he arrived in this Caribbean nation in late November that didn’t involve the beaches that the tropical destination offers.
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Balancing act: Juggling demands of dialogue, proclaiming Catholic faith

VATICAN CITY – Since the Second Vatican Council, the Catholic Church and other Christian communities have been seeking the right balance between a truly respectful dialogue with other religions and an obligation to share their conviction that the fullness of salvation is found in Christ.
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Boston Pilot reporter to serve in Iraq, will chronicle troops’ lives

BRAINTREE, Mass. – A staff reporter with The Pilot, the newspaper of the Boston Archdiocese, will be deployed to Iraq to serve with the U.S. Army, and his mission will be to chronicle the lives and day-to-day experiences of a unit of soldiers over the next year.
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Cardinal Keeler, archdiocese receive thanks

Cardinal William H. Keeler received a note thanking him and the Archdiocese of Baltimore for its 2006 donation to the Pontifical Missions Societies from Cardinal Ivan Dias, prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.
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Gorman to become research professor

Sulpician Father Thomas R. Hurst, president-rector of St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park, has announced Dr. Michael Gorman will step down at the end of the 2011–2012 academic year after more than 18 years in the Dean’s office of the Ecumenical Institute of Theology.
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Notre Dame offers prescription for shortage of pharmacists

Pharmacists do a whole lot more than fill prescriptions, and there’s greater demand for them now than ever before.
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Pope’s calendar confirms life doesn’t slow down after 80

VATICAN CITY – As Pope Benedict XVI looks at his 2008 calendar, he’s no doubt recognizing that life doesn’t slow down after 80.
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Cardinal Newman Society and Mount St. Mary’s form partnership

The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education, a division of The Cardinal Newman Society, will relocate to Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg under the leadership of Monsignor Stuart Swetland, effective July 1.
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Courage

The reaction to my mentioning on this page some weeks ago that I planned to make Courage, a support group for Catholics with same-sex attractions who seek to live chaste lives, available in the Archdiocese, was generally favorable.
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Bishop honors miners lost in Monongah disaster of 1907

MONONGAH, W.Va. – One hundred years to the day after the Dec. 6, 1907, Monongah mine disaster – the worst coal-mine disaster in U.S. history – the people of Monongah came together to remember the 361 miners and others who lost their lives in the tragedy.
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Redemptorist Father Robert Wojtek to lead Sacred Heart of Jesus

Redemptorist Father Robert F. Wojtek, pastor of the Catholic Community of St. Michael and St. Patrick in Fells Point since 2005, will become the pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown July 27.
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Vatican names two new archbishops for Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Victor Sanchez Espinosa of Mexico City as the new archbishop of Puebla, one of the oldest archdioceses in the country.
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