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Pope tells Italian police to recognize God in all people

VATICAN CITY – Meeting with the Italian police who ensure his security when he is outside the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI said humanity will struggle to see itself as one family unless people believe in God and recognize all were created by him.
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Bounty in Emmitsburg

It was one of those beautiful days right after Easter. My friend – and mother of my cats– and I decided to make a pilgrimage to Emmitsburg.
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British government defeats amendment to gay-hate-crimes

LONDON – The British government has defeated an attempt to amend a gay-hate-crimes bill that the Catholic Church claims will prohibit Christians from expressing their beliefs about marriage and family life.
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Curley man through and through, Father Martin ready for next phase

When an eighth-grader at Most Precious Blood named Michael Martin took his high school entrance examinations in the mid-1970s, his father made a simple command.
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Catholic Relief Services reconstruction nearing completion

With the passing of the third anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that struck Christmas Day 2004, took the lives of an estimated 200,000 people and left millions more without homes, Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett reflects on the progress made in the region.
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Trip to Lourdes inspires St. Joseph’s emergency department head

As head of the emergency department at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson, Dr. Gail Cunningham has always worked hard to show compassion to her patients. A recent trip to Europe has inspired her to take that empathetic care to a new level.
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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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Media ‘panic’ over pedophilia mars prevention, says Jesuit journal

ROME – A lack of expert opinion in media coverage of the clerical sex abuse scandal has led to a climate of “moral panic,” which does nothing to help people understand the tragedy of abuse or keep children safe, said an influential Jesuit journal.
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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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Church’s impact on youth more important than ever

Anyone who needed indication that all is not lost with the youths in Baltimore City would have gotten their fair share of reassurance at a church in northwest Baltimore recently.
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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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Is tuition cost driving Catholics away?

I read that only 15 percent of Catholic children attend Catholic schools.
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