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Politics, music among issues bishops will face

WASHINGTON – When the U.S. bishops meet in November, they will debate and vote on how Catholics should participate in the political process, what Catholic high school students should learn in religion classes and how to best ensure that liturgical music is both doctrinally sound and pleasing to the ear.
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Baltimore mayor asked to provide more summer jobs

The following was sent to Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings -Blake.
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People, Places, Things

Woodmont Academy students in Cooksville devoted Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday to a day of apostolic service, performing works that benefitted the school community and a school in El Salvador.
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EI offers lineup of popular speakers

Need an interesting speaker? The Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary and University offers a roster of faculty members who speak to local church and community groups.
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Vatican calls on businesses to be ethical, create economic justice

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and some Catholic thinkers are urging businesses to not only employ ethical policies within their companies, but to become dedicated to bringing economic justice to the wider world.
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Bull riding Calvert Hall grad takes stock in faith

Staying astride an up-to-2,000-pound bucking, kicking, twisting bull has been described by some as the “the most dangerous eight seconds in sports.”
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Parishes work together in face of shortages

The 10 parishes in Harford County and the nearby Baltimore County parish of St. Stephen, Bradshaw, are planning how best to allocate not just priests, but the directors of religious education, youth ministers and pastoral associates who are in short supply.
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Quiet, receptive minds more open to Holy Spirit

The bible tells us that Jesus went often into the desert to pray to his heavenly Father. Might we not also believe his intent was to listen, to hear the Voice of God?
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Rabbi Klenicki, Christian-Jewish relations expert, dies at 78

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a longtime Jewish voice on Catholic-Jewish relations, died Jan. 25 at his home in Monroe Township. He was 78 years old. No cause of death was immediately reported.
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Archbishop apologizes for giving communion to mock nuns

SAN FRANCISCO – When he gave Communion to “two strangely dressed persons” Oct. 7 at Most Holy Redeemer Parish in San Francisco, Archbishop George H. Niederauer said he did not realize they were members of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group that has “long made a practice of mocking the Catholic Church.”
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Poll finds overlap: Many say they’re both ‘pro-choice’ and ‘pro-life’

WASHINGTON – The headline on the introduction to a new report on the generation of people ages 18-29 encapsulates its conclusions as “the peculiar profile of millennials on abortion.”
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FDA approval of embryonic stem-cell research a ‘step back’

Maryland could become a focal point in the moral minefield of embryonic stem-cell research.
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