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Los Angeles receives Archbishop Gomez as Cardinal Mahony retires

LOS ANGELES – More than 6,000 people assembled for two Masses Feb. 27 at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels to observe a historic – and rare – transition of leadership in the Archdiocese of Los Angeles.
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Catholic Center takes measures to protect environment

Kermit the Frog once sang “It’s not easy being green.” The leaders at the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s downtown headquarters beg to differ, however.
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Filipinos take refuge in church as firefights rage in Libyan capital

MANILA, Philippines – Filipinos trapped in the violent upheaval in Libya took refuge inside the cathedral of the apostolic vicariate of Tripoli as they awaited word that safe passage out of the country was secured, a missionary priest said.
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Oblates host ‘stay-at-home’ ball

When the Oblate Sisters of Providence say you can have a ball without leaving home, they really mean it.
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Baltimore Catholic League players, coaches unite to assist clients of Catholic Charities

TOWSON – Anthony Day, the principal of Loyola Blakefield School, was about to lead a prayer the morning of Feb. 21, when one of his guests asked to do so.
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Are you being called?

So you think you have a vocation to the priesthood? Try these steps to conquer your fear or confusion.
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Father Hemler, an ‘inspiration’ to Fallston parish, retires

Father Edward B. Hemler wasn’t about to let health problems stop him from giving First holy Communion to the children of St. Mark in Fallston last spring.
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Full support of global AIDS package expected from new U.S. president

WASHINGTON – An overseer of the President’s Emergency Program for AIDS Relief, known as PEPFAR, expects the incoming president to fully embrace the $48 billion package to provide treatment and prevention campaigns globally.
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Caterer discovers wide-ranging support during ordeal

OVERLEA – George Bailey has nothing on Pep Perella. Just as the everyman hero of the film classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” discovered all the lives he had touched, Thomas “Pep” Perrella is getting a gauge on just how many men, women and children are behind him.
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Archbishop dedicates Pope John Paul II prayer garden

Seeing himself cast in bronze alongside Pope John Paul II in a new downtown statue brought back a flood of memories for Justin Farinelli.
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Catholic theologians call for changes after abuse crisis in Germany

OXFORD, England – More than 140 Catholic theologians from universities in Austria, Germany and Switzerland called for the church to take serious steps to address the problems of the priest shortage by allowing married priests and women to have more active roles in church ministry and allowing laypeople to help select bishops and pastors, among...
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Scholars ask pope to put Pius XII’s sainthood cause on hold

WASHINGTON – A group of Christian and Jewish scholars is calling for the sainthood cause of Pope Pius XII to be put on hold.
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