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Sisters are a sign you can’t miss

If you see a giant nun looming in front of you, you’re not having flashbacks to your Catholic school days. The larger-than-life photographic cutouts of the Sisters of Mercy, posted on street corners by Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, are helping hospital visitors find their way to the Saratoga Street parking garage.
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The Hopeful, Holy Men of Baltimore

Though not a day of obligation and certainly not as faithfully observed as the other solemn days of Holy Week, the Chrism Mass, which is celebrated in our Archdiocese each Monday of Holy Week, is no less powerful or significant.
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‘Red Hot Mommas’ educate women on menopause

Women going through menopause don’t have to feel alone. “Red Hot Mommas,” a two-year-old program at Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore, offers information and support for dealing with a time of life that can often be confusing or intimidating.
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Holy Name members of the year honored at Oriole Park

Before the first pitch was thrown at Oriole Park Aug. 24, a Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, student and a parishioner of St. Joseph, Taneytown, were honored during the Archdiocesan Holy Name Union Baseball Game at Camden Yards.
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Technology without God pulls humanity down, pope says on Palm Sunday

VATICAN CITY – Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI warned that technological progress must not lead people to think they can “become God.”
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Author recovers story of first American-Indian religious order

When 12-year-old Thomas Foley opened a shoebox in his Aunt Mame’s closet more than 65 years ago, he unwittingly uncovered the building blocks for a remarkable story of faith, courage and determination.
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Wisconsin priest joins caravan to Cuba

MILWAUKEE – In his 87 years, many memories have formed in Jesuit Father Bill Brennan’s mind.
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Ambassador Kmiec says critique stems from ‘hostility to expressions of faith’

WASHINGTON – Douglas Kmiec, the U.S. ambassador to Malta, said an audit by the State Department’s inspector general that chided him for his “unconventional approach to his role” stemmed from the complaints of a handful of people within the agency who “seem to manifest a hostility to expressions of faith and efforts to promote better...
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Two priests, several other Catholics honored with presidential medal

WASHINGTON – Two priests were among more than a half-dozen Catholics in a group of 24 people awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal Dec. 10 by President George W. Bush.
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Bishops might meet to discuss Chavez proposal

CARACAS, Venezuela – Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas said the Venezuelan bishops’ conference might have a special meeting to discuss Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s proposed constitutional reform. The proposal “concerns the life of the Venezuelan people, of the Catholics of Venezuela and the rights of everybody,” he said. The cardinal said Venezuelan Catholics should...
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Archbishop Chaput: No unity among U.S. bishops on sanctions for abortion support

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Archbishop Charles J. Chaput gave a frank response when asked why there is so much disunity among Catholics on the question of Catholics in political life standing clearly with the church on major moral issues such as abortion.
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Park Heights painting highlights saint

It looks more than a little bit like a Picasso, the nun’s painting of St. Ambrose baptizing St. Augustine.
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