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Parish uses ground water to stop sky-high energy bills

Green means two things at St. Vincent de Paul, Baltimore: air conditioning at virtually no cost, and heat in a way that spares the environment.
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Blame politics for the Baltimore Colts’ move

Christopher Gunty wrote an excellent editorial “Super ad meets super hypocrisy Sunday” (CR, Feb. 4), but must correct something he wrote in the last sentence.
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Student’s efforts lead to successful foundation

Some kids play sports, others are in the marching band and then there are those like Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, senior Brady Vontran, who start a foundation that raises more than $50,000 and collects more than 4,000 toys for critically ill children.
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Salute to the new monsignors

In this Year of the Priest, it was touching to see a number of priests recently honored with the title of Monsignor. All are honorable men worthy of the honors.
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Ethical breakthroughs seen in new stem-cell studies

WASHINGTON – Scientists, ethicists and church leaders hailed as a breakthrough two studies showing that human skin cells can be reprogrammed to work as effectively as embryonic stem cells, thus negating the need to destroy embryos in the name of science.
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Successful confessions campaign returns for second year

In popular culture, the sacrament of reconciliation can often be portrayed as intimidating. Some who are seeking to lighten the heavy burden of sin are often scared away from the confessional.
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What really matters this Thanksgiving …

I have been parenting for more than 27 years; there have been many years when I believed my parenting skills to be in line with my life’s greatest accomplishments and others when I just knew I totally missed the mark.
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God’s presence transforms us

It was something I had done literally thousands of times before. I was purifying the sacred vessels at Mass, carefully wiping the crumbs of the Eucharistic Bread, the Body of Christ, into the chalice. It happened to be the Feast of the Epiphany. This was the day we celebrated the Wise Men following the star...
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Faith still misguided in politics

I recently read that the faith I’ve practiced for 45 years is still misguided in politics.
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U.S. woman brings adopted daughter home from Haiti day before earthquake

WILMINGTON, Del. - When Melissa Stam received a text message from a friend Jan. 12 telling her about the earthquake that hit Haiti, all she could do was cry.
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Bishops overwhelmingly approve politics document

BALTIMORE – In what several bishops called “a watershed moment” for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the full body of bishops overwhelmingly approved a document intended to help Catholic voters form their consciences on a variety of issues before the 2008 elections.
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Inter-parish model is foundation of School of Incarnation

GAMBRILLS – There was a noticeable buzz in the air as second graders plopped soft-covered workbooks on their desktops and pulled out number-two pencils one recent January morning at School of the Incarnation in Gambrills.
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