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Pope urges countries to combat causes of hunger, malnutrition

ROME – Pope Benedict XVI urged the international community to combat the causes of hunger, saying starvation and malnutrition were unacceptable in a world that can produce plenty to eat.
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New Notre Dame pharmacy school proves innovative

During her junior year at Lehigh University two years ago, Jennifer Cochran began to contemplate becoming a pharmacist.
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Shroud of Turin to be displayed to public in 2010

VATICAN CITY – The Shroud of Turin, revered by many as the burial cloth of Christ, will be displayed to the public for the first time in a decade in 2010.
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President deserves to be heard

Michael R. Smith (CR, Sept. 17) “Would someone please explain to me why my daughter is watching a speech, during her school day, delivered by a pro-choice president?”
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St. Louis Archdiocese ordains largest number of priests in 21 years

ST. LOUIS – When Archbishop Raymond L. Burke of St. Louis ordained nine men to the priesthood for the archdiocese May 24, it was the largest ordination class for the archdiocese since 1987.
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Too many sweets in Halloween treats?

One of Halloween night’s joys is a child’s uncertainty about what awaits them after they press a doorbell for trick-or-treating.
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What is God Whispering?

Although I have visited all our parishes – however briefly in most cases – and a couple of dozen elementary schools to date, I’ve managed so far only a handful of high schools. In celebrating Mass for the students at Mount St. Joseph, Archbishop Curley and Calvert Hall, I have come to realize that the...
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Cardinal DiNardo urges Red Mass participants to show God’s justice in world

WASHINGTON – Speaking at the 56th annual Red Mass in the nation’s capital, Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston said today’s followers of Christ must allow God’s word to abide in their hearts and, guided by the Holy Spirit, they must show God’s justice in the world.
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Bishop Walsh School institutes vocations program

CUMBERLAND – When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visited Bishop Walsh School in Cumberland soon after his Oct. 1 installation, he challenged students and faculty to come up with ways of raising awareness about vocations to the religious life.
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Justice Sotomayor, veteran justices face cases on a cross, juveniles

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court opens its 2009 term Oct. 5 with a new justice and cases dealing with at least one religious rights issue – about a cross on a war memorial in a federal preserve – and other cases about the circumstances leading to deportation, about an immigrant in detention being denied medical...
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City officials, clergy work for solutions to crime, social ills

St. Frances Academy, Baltimore, rallies to fight being used as a drop point for the drug trade.
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Vatican envoy to UN defends church’s response to sex abuse

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has defended its response to the problem of sexual abuse of children by priests, saying that the church had been “cleaning its own house” and that other religions and institutions were similarly tainted.
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