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St. Clare helps Haiti

Students around the Archdiocese of Baltimore are not only celebrating Catholic Schools’ Week theme of “Dividends for Life,” they are living it when it relates to helping victims of the recent Haiti earthquake.
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Blessed Virgin Mary exemplifies motherhood

With Mother’s Day rapidly approaching, Father Leo Patalinghug believes it’s the perfect time to look to the Blessed Virgin Mary as the model for what motherhood is all about. Mary exemplifies the best qualities for raising children, he said, and she is a powerful intercessor for families looking for help rearing children.
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Remembering Holocaust, pope prays for respect for all people

VATICAN CITY – Marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Pope Benedict XVI prayed that honoring the memory of the 6 million Jews who died in the Nazi death camps would lead everyone to greater respect for each human being.
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CRS chairman says agency practices church teachings on condoms

WASHINGTON – In a letter to U.S. bishops, the chairman of the board of Catholic Relief Services said the agency’s HIV/AIDS programs practice church teachings on condom use and abstinence before marriage.
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Pope names woman undersecretary of justice and peace council

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named a laywoman undersecretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, marking the first time in more than 20 years that a woman has served as undersecretary of a pontifical council.
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Tennis pro instills confidence in Spalding team

The Archbishop Spalding High School boys’ tennis team, as successful as it is, has an interesting team makeup this season: a volleyball player, a receiver from the football team and a new coach from the United States Military Academy at West Point.
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Lord, please don’t hear this prayer – yet again

This past Dec. 28, I was jolted out of my morning fog at 8 a.m. Mass when the deacon offered this petition:
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Religious order finds renewed life in the desert

PHOENIX – When Blessed Theodore de Celles founded the Canons Regular of the Order of the Holy Cross in 1210, Christendom looked a bit different than it does today.
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Missionaries of Charity say their staffers in Haiti are safe

CALCUTTA, India – The Missionaries of Charity have expressed relief that their nuns working in Haiti are safe.
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Commercials are offensive

In the article (CR, April 10) regarding FOX television possibly violating FCC broadcasting regulations, there was the following statement: “Longstanding FCC regulations forbid over-the-air radio and television stations from broadcasting ‘patently offensive’ material of a sexual or excretory nature between the hours of 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. when children are mostly to be in...
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Mount St. Joe basketball star is Notre Dame-bound

For four seasons, Eric Atkins has been a mainstay of Mount St. Joseph’s varsity basketball.
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Colombian Cardinal Lopez Trujillo, Vatican family expert, dies at 72

ROME – Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo, president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, died April 19 at Rome’s Pius XI clinic, where he had been hospitalized since early April with a respiratory infection. He was 72.
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