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Catholic high schools are U.S. football powers

WASHINGTON – A list of football powerhouses among Catholic colleges in Division I of the National Collegiate Athletic Association would probably start with Notre Dame and end with Boston College.
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Priests visit schools on World Vocations Day

ESSEX – At age 5, Our Lady of Mount Carmel kindergartner Kamran Jagadesan knows what he wants to be when he grows up: a priest.
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Pope baptizes infants, emphasizes parents’ formation role

VATICAN CITY – In an annual liturgy, Pope Benedict XVI baptized 13 infants and emphasized the duty of parents and godparents to educate them in the faith.
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Religious order recruits male teachers for Catholic schools

ST. LOUIS – The Midwest province of the Christian Brothers has begun a program to combat the growing shortage of male teachers. The province offers the Lasallian Teacher Immersion Program at universities run by the religious community to provide male college students with classroom teaching experience and opportunities to serve those in need while earning...
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Parish ‘resurrects’ diseased tree by making crosses from its wood

READING, Pa. – St. Margaret Parish in Reading long enjoyed the shade of its 125-year-old giant elm tree.
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First Things founder Father Richard John Neuhaus dies from cancer

WASHINGTON – Father Richard John Neuhaus, a former Lutheran minister who became a Catholic priest and a staunch defender of church teaching on abortion and other life issues, died Jan. 8. He was 72.
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Friar runners pay tribute to our troops and our country

In a once-in-a-lifetime experience for the Archbishop Curley cross country team, four seniors took part in a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., on Aug. 16. On that drizzly day, the four Friar senior runners, Tim Skarda, Pat Hairfield, Jonathan Sobczynski and Kevin Sommers,...
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Perseverance, cooperation key for relocating Haitians from camps

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – It took more than a year, but Gregoire Jean has his wife and five kids back at home.
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PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

Students from St. Thomas Aquinas School in Hampden visited the School Sisters of Notre Dame at Villa Assumpta Maria Health Care Center, Baltimore, Dec. 12.
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College chaplains offer advice

PHILADELPHIA – Staying involved in church activities and with campus Newman centers is key to students keeping the faith while in college, according to college chaplains. “First and foremost, as in all things Catholic, go to Mass,” said Father John Nordeman, chaplain of the Newman Center at Pennsylvania’s West Chester University.
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Canadian bishop pledges healing in diocese rocked by child porn charges

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia – Antigonish Bishop Brian Dunn recommitted himself to working to bring healing, reconciliation and reform to the diocese after his predecessor pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography for the purpose of importation.
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New Hampshire couple perplexed by Vatican views on embryo adoption

WASHINGTON – As committed Catholics, Timothy and Dawn Smith respect Vatican pronouncements, but recent statements about frozen embryo adoption from church officials have bewildered the Fitzwilliam, N.H., parents of three children who came into the world through this process.
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