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Two St. Michael students among gifted

Two students from St. Michael the Archangel School, Overlea, were honored at a statewide awards ceremony for gifted children held by The Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth (CTY).
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Surviving the storms of change

The “Monumental City” – this is how President John Quincy Adams referred to Baltimore in 1827. The president was talking about Baltimore’s unique skyline with its church steeples and monuments.
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Historic inaugural seen as chance to recall place of religion in U.S.

WASHINGTON – All Americans can see in the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama as the nation’s first African-American president an indication of the country’s “historic, proud, but not always realized, boast to be a land where all are equal,” Washington’s archbishop said Jan. 18.
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Patients cook up recipe book

A group of Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, cancer patients banded together to develop a cookbook, "Cooking for a Cause with Karen and Friends," as a fundraiser to support The Lymphedema Assistance Fund at Mercy.
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Zambian bishops warn they will sue government over attacks on Catholics

LUSAKA, Zambia - The Zambian bishops’ conference warned it would sue the government and its agents for defamation if they continued attacking and insulting Catholics.
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‘Godfather of Gibbons’ retires after four decades of leading students

After nearly 43 years of leading The Cardinal Gibbons School students from one stepping-stone to the next, educator Don DelCiello will be making a leap of his own – into retirement.
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Maryknoll announces student essay contest

Maryknoll announced the sponsorship of the 2007 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest for grades 6-12. Winners will receive nearly $3,000 in scholarship money, as well as coverage in “Maryknoll” magazine and on the Maryknoll Web site www.maryknoll.org/winners.
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Vatican newspaper article says condom campaigns increase AIDS risk

VATICAN CITY - An article in the Vatican newspaper said that, on a practical level, condom campaigns increase the possibility of AIDS infection by promoting a false sense of security.
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Replay: Catholic Harbaugh takes Ravens further than expected

There was a time when John Harbaugh could walk into a barbershop or church without anyone knowing who he was.
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Gambrills and Annapolis parishioners donate hair

Sitting on a booster seat in the Signatures hair salon in Annapolis, 4-year-old Caitlin Guenther watched herself stoically in the mirror as Patti Linkins gathered the girl’s lush, long locks into a pony tail and raised a pair of scissors. In a series of assertive snips, the hair stylist clipped 10-inches off the brunette’s soft...
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Mercy patients tune in to healing power of music

Like Duke Orsino in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night,” Mercy Medical Center’s Dr. Kathy J. Helzlsouer may be inclined to agree that, “if music be the food of love, play on.”
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The Catholic press reflected Maryland disdain for Lincoln

With the 200th anniversary of his birth on Feb. 12 neatly following the inauguration of Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president, Abraham Lincoln remains very much in the public eye.
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