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Pastor encourages attendance at Latin Mass

Even though Bob Reier is a parishioner of St. Louis, Clarksville, he eagerly chips in as an altar server at 9 a.m. each Sunday for the Baltimore basilica’s weekly Latin Mass.
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Vatican-sponsored meeting discusses chances of extraterrestrial life

VATICAN CITY - Dozens of scientists gathered at a Vatican-sponsored meeting to fit together emerging pieces of a puzzle still waiting to be solved: whether there is life on other planets.
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Chavez supporters invade offices of Caracas Archdiocese

BOGOTA, Colombia – About 15 hooded supporters of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez invaded the offices of the Archdiocese of Caracas, Venezuela, and held a news conference criticizing government opponents, including the church.
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Catholic journalist documents 40-year career at daily newspaper

MILWAUKEE -–Frank Aukofer retired after 40 years with the Milwaukee Journal in 2000, but said he had so much fun as a newspaper reporter in the last half of the 20th century that he wanted to share the experiences.
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Catholics, Muslims must learn more about religions

VATICAN CITY – Catholics and Muslims must learn more about each other’s religions if they want to get along better, said the Vatican ambassador in Egypt and former president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue.
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Catholic officials laud agreement to end Honduran crisis

MEXICO CITY – Catholic leaders in Honduras lauded a political agreement that aimed to end the four-month political crisis sparked by a June coup that unseated President Manuel Zelaya.
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Cardinal tells Cubans of hope for renewed evangelization

HAVANA – At a meeting with Cuban bishops and an open-air Mass, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state and the highest-ranking Catholic Church representative to visit Cuba in the past 10 years, said he hoped his visit would help advance church-state relations.
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Catholic blogosphere: Council looks at promoting charity, truth online

VATICAN CITY – Communications technology keeps changing, but the need to deliver a message with truth and charity is never obsolete, said Italian Archbishop Claudio Maria Celli.
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One school, two campuses and room to grow

One year after the announcement that Our Lady Queen of Peace School, Middle River, would close, the classrooms are full – of preschoolers and infants.
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Dissident theologian criticizes pope’s opening to Anglicans

ROME – Dissident theologian Father Hans Kung criticized Pope Benedict XVI for his recent opening to discontented Anglicans, charging the pope was “fishing” for the most conservative Christians to the detriment of the larger church.
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Norms for saints’ causes call for careful study

VATICAN CITY – In a new set of rules encouraged by Pope Benedict XVI, the Vatican is requiring dioceses to be more meticulous and objective when they prepare local sainthood causes.
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Baltimore priest helps school children in Iraq

A Baltimore military chaplain serving in Iraq is helping put scarce school supplies into the hands of Iraqi students.
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