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Special needs student from Villa Maria dies after accident

A special needs student from Villa Maria School in Timonium died Dec. 10 from injuries sustained Dec. 8 after he became involved in an altercation and jumped from a moving bus. The bus, operated by a company contracted by Baltimore City Schools, was transporting the boy from his Catholic Charities-run school to his home.
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Nobel winners talk to 3,000 youths about peacemaking in violent world

LOS ANGELES – PeaceJam Foundation likes to prove that young adults do care about what older people think, particularly adult activists who have taken great risks to change oppressive systems.
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Alfred Smith was first

Patricia Zapor’s CNS article (CR, Dec. 13) about Mitt Romney’s speech on religion and public life at the GHW Bush Library in College Station, Texas, contains a glaring omission.
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Caritas official wants Zambia to arrest Sudanese president

LUSAKA, Zambia – Zambia must hand over Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court when he visits Lusaka Dec. 15, Caritas Zambia executive director Samuel Mulafulafu said.
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Eating right is easy as ABC at schools

Friday is pizza day in the cafeteria at St. John Regional School in Frederick, where for years students loved the taste of the school-made pie.
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Friends of detained Cameroonian fight his deportation

WORCESTER, Mass. – Friends of a Cameroonian Catholic who has been detained in a Massachusetts county jail and faces deportation fear he will be tortured or beaten if he is returned to his homeland.
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At funeral, Irish cardinal says paramilitaries were trying to play God

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland – Cardinal Sean Brady of Armagh, celebrating the funeral for a man who “disappeared” more than 30 years ago, said the paramilitaries suspected of murdering and secretly burying him were trying to play God.
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Thousands of sick flock to Lourdes to see pope, pray to Mary

LOURDES, France – From an altar ringed with wheelchairs and stretchers, Pope Benedict XVI encouraged thousands of sick people at Lourdes to seek solace in Mary’s smile and maternal love.
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Volunteer visitors greet, transport merchant sailors

The “mama” and the “doc-a-ter” are in. In port, that is, and available as the official welcome wagon for foreign merchant sailors who set sail from home months ago.
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Keeping current: Pope would welcome electric popemobile, official says

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI would welcome having an electric popemobile as a further sign of his commitment to protecting natural resources and safeguarding the earth, said a top Vatican official.
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Pope says Western efforts to marginalize religion would be disastrous

PARIS – Pope Benedict XVI warned that Western cultural efforts to marginalize religion and believers would bring disaster for humanity and ultimately “play into the hands of fanaticism.”
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Life would be dark without Christ’s birth, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Without the birth of Christ who brought the light of truth to the world, life would be dark and without direction, Pope Benedict XVI said at his last general audience before Christmas.
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