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World now has greater number of Muslims than Catholics

VATICAN CITY – A Vatican official said that, for the first time, the world’s Muslim population is greater than the number of Catholics.
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Spain’s bishops urge mass protest against abortion legislation

MADRID, Spain – Spain’s Catholic bishops are urging church members to protest abortion legislation that would allow girls as young as 16 to terminate pregnancies without parental consent.
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Catholics work to head off conflicts over Polish migrants

WARSAW, Poland – Catholic Church leaders have been working to head off a possible conflict about pastoral jurisdiction over the estimated 1.5 million Polish migrants in the United Kingdom.
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Dr. Ayd, pioneer in psychopharmacology, dies at 87

A funeral Mass for Dr. Frank J. Ayd Jr., a distinguished psychiatrist and world leader in medicine who was dedicated to the Catholic Church, was offered March 24 at St. John the Evangelist, Hydes.
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St. Katharine School students and staff to be featured on CBS Sunday Morning

CBS correspondent Byron Pitts, a graduate of Baltimore’s St. Katharine School and Archbishop Curley High School, will be doing a story on literacy on CBS Sunday Morning Oct. 4 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
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Giving peace a chance: Catholic activists still going strong

WASHINGTON – In the pouring rain March 19, Franciscan Sister Marie Lucey addressed several dozen protesters at a rally near the White House, pleading for an end to U.S. involvement in the Iraq War.
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Oregon private school students excluded from free bus passes – for now

PORTLAND, Ore. – A deal reached by the city of Portland, the local public school district and the regional mass transit company offers free bus rides to high school students in the city - but only if they attend a public school.
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Gonzaga University president to leave post in July 2009

SPOKANE, Wash. – Jesuit Father Robert J. Spitzer, president of Gonzaga University, announced March 17 that he plans to leave his post in July 2009 and will work with the school’s board of trustees to initiate a transition in leadership at the Jesuit-run university.
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Annapolis leader to be honored Oct. 4, Respect Life Sunday

Virginia E. “Ginny” Dauses, the campus minister at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, will receive the Culture of Life Medal of Honor Oct. 4 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, where Cardinal William H. Keeler, archbishop emeritus of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will celebrate the Respect Life Mass at 11 a.m.
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Easter vs. irony

At the beginning of Lent, I was sent a moving account of the recent funeral procession of a young American soldier, which took place near his hometown in the South. The most striking section read as follows:
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Calvert Hall surgeon saves lives on battlefield

Whenever an American serviceman suffered a major injury in Iraq, there was a very strong probability he would be treated by Dr. Wilmer Jones.
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