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‘Uncle Fran’ touches hearts of niece, nephew

Bishop W. Francis Malooly plays many roles to countless people, but to Jonathan Malooly and Erin Malooly Miller, he is a generous uncle who has demonstrated his faith through selfless acts.
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Baltimore educators to share Texas-Mexico border experience

Once two nuns and an associate of the School Sisters of Notre Dame returned to Baltimore after witnessing the immigration and border issues at the Texas-Mexico boundary last month, they learned the U.S. Senate failed to produce an immigration-reform bill.
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Finishing the Race

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s column this week includes excerpts from his Respect Life Sunday homily.
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Confirmation of young people important part of bishop’s work

Bishop W. Francis Malooly may handle numerous duties from his seventh-floor office at 320 Cathedral St., but one of his greatest joys has been working with the youth of the archdiocese.
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Development leader of 12 years to leave archdiocesan post

The executive director of development for the Archdiocese of Baltimore will be leaving his post of 12 years in late July to focus full time on a consulting business he established several years ago to help parishes and dioceses throughout the United States.
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Tax credit that aids private school students comes under court scrutiny

WASHINGTON – The nuts-and-bolts consideration of whether Arizona’s school tuition tax credit program is constitutional, being heard by the Supreme Court Nov. 3, will first have to survive a preliminary question about legal standing.
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Seattle man nearing death opposes state’s assisted suicide initiative

SEATTLE – John Peyton doesn’t have long to live. Earlier this summer, his doctor gave him three to six months.
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Black Catholic Congress attracts crowd

About 45 Catholics from the Archdiocese of Baltimore attending the 10th National Black Catholic Congress in Buffalo, N.Y., hope to boost evangelization and social justice on a parish and diocesan level.
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Calvert Hall senior ‘keeps chopping wood’

At every chance he gets, Calvert Hall’s head football coach tells his players to “keep chopping wood.” Perhaps no one has taken Donald Davis’s call to consistency more seriously than Andrew Mills, a 17-year-old senior defensive end.
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Sound bites replace truth in modern politics, media

Eighty-three years ago Walter Lippmann published a brilliant, deeply disturbing book called “Public Opinion.” Bearing in mind that John Dewey called it “the most effective indictment of democracy … ever penned,” Americans need to take what it says to heart in 2008 as they try to make sense of the latest race for the presidency.
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Ellicott City church plans parish center

Parish leaders at St. Paul in Ellicott City have completed a master plan that calls for the demolition of a duplex on parish grounds and replacing it with a two-story parish center. As part of the master plan, the entrance on College Avenue will be widened to allow for safer ingress and egress.
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Bethlehem U. students face obstacles in quest for higher education

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – Students travel great distances and put up with checkpoints and other travel restrictions on a near-daily basis to attend Bethlehem University, the only Catholic university in the Palestinian territories.
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