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Cardinal says main priority is to help people suffering after Ike

HOUSTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston told archdiocesan employees Sept. 17 that in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike his “major preoccupation right now” is the number of people who are lacking food and water and facing “difficulties with gasoline and lack of power.”
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Church leaders to go ahead with dedication

WARSAW, Poland – Church leaders have vowed to press ahead with the dedication of a Catholic church in Azerbaijan a week after it was damaged by attackers. “The opening will undoubtedly take place – there’ve been no changes in our program,” said Father Rolandas Makrickas, an official at the Vatican’s Tbilisi-based nunciature. The newly completed...
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Mercy Medical’s Bunting Center boasts state-of-the-art technology and spiritual touches

When other city hospitals relocated to the suburbs in the middle of the last century, leaders of Mercy Medical Center made a conscious decision to keep the Catholic hospital in downtown Baltimore.
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Some Ecuadorean priests urge Catholics to vote against constitution

LIMA, Peru – A conflict between Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa and Catholic Church leaders in the country’s biggest city has grown more pronounced as a referendum nears on the new constitution.
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Seminarians to visit parishes to boost annual collection

Maryland parishioners will have an opportunity to help educate the future priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore when the second-collection plate is passed to them the weekend of May 5 and 6. Last year parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore raised more than $300,000 to help pay for the education of the seminarians enrolled in...
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Green Bay bishop becomes first in U.S. to approve Marian apparitions

CHAMPION, Wis. – Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay has approved the Marian apparitions seen by Adele Brise in 1859, making the apparitions of Mary that occurred some 18 miles northeast of Green Bay the first in the United States to receive approval of a diocesan bishop.
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Political literature gets two arrested at basilica

Two demonstrators were arrested for trespassing at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore Sept. 14.
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Cardinal George returns home after breaking a femur

CHICAGO – Chicago Cardinal Francis E. George returned home from the hospital on Easter after falling and breaking the upper part of his right leg while blessing food baskets a day earlier. Cardinal George, 70, apparently slipped on water on the marble floor at St. Ferdinand Catholic Church April 7, landing on his hip and...
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Philadelphia priest under investigation, steps down as parish pastor

WASHINGTON – A priest of the Philadelphia Archdiocese resigned as pastor of a parish after federal agents raided the rectory where he lived.
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Homeschool families vital in formation, Archbishop says

When Susan Scott’s eldest child was born, the mother of five said God spoke to her.
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Our Lady of Sorrows spreads joy

In the bitter cold, Charlie Fink and volunteers from the South County Faith Network built a large ramp for an elderly man who was having trouble getting in and out of his house. About three years ago Father Mark Logue, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows, Owensville, asked Mr. Fink, a retired nuclear engineer and...
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South Korean church leads campaign to abolish death penalty

SEOUL, South Korea – An organization representing the Catholic Church joined a Seoul street campaign seeking to abolish of capital punishment in South Korea.
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