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January 19, 2012

More prayer and less rhetoric on life issues

I was extremely disappointed to read the angry letters from writers who are very upset by the election of Barack Obama. The majority of U.S. Catholics did not vote for Mr. Obama because he is “pro abortion.” I believe that I voted for a very moral man.

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January 19, 2012

Control holiday stress by emphasizing what matters

You haven’t started your Christmas cards – the ones you didn’t finish last year – the latest hot toy is sold out, and the kids want you to make the traditional cookies. You just don’t have the time, and none of it feels right anyway since you lost your mother this year.

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January 19, 2012

New pavilion in St. Mary’s City traces story of birthplace of religious freedom in United States

ST. MARY’S CITY – Marylanders of all ages celebrated the state’s 377th birthday at Historic St. Mary’s City March 26, in a colorful program that included 24 fourth-graders from across the state carrying the flags of their counties and an opening procession with seven men in colonial garb portraying the St. Maries Citty Militia from...

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January 19, 2012

Vatican official says Galileo was a man of faith

ROME – Fourteen years after Pope John Paul II said the Catholic Church erred when it condemned the 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Vatican secretary of state said the astronomer was “a man of faith” who recognized God as creator of the cosmos.

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January 19, 2012

Religious communities urged to do more for older women

NEW YORK – Older women living in poverty are an often invisible and overlooked population that could be better served by religious communities, said participants of an interreligious dialogue at Jesuit-run Fordham University Nov. 15.

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January 19, 2012

Ferraro dies; was first woman to seek vice presidency for major party

BOSTON – Geraldine Ferraro, a lawyer and former congresswoman who in 1984 became the first woman to seek the vice presidency on a major political party ticket, died March 26 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.

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January 19, 2012

Making use of your ‘last time’

It happened several years ago, but the thought continues to bother me. John had made the comment at one of our group get-togethers. “Don’t mention those words ‘last time’ to me,” he said.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican diplomat named to head U.S. military archdiocese

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has named Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio, a Cleveland native who is apostolic nuncio to the Dominican Republic and delegate to Puerto Rico, to head the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services.

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January 19, 2012

Libyan bishop calls on African Union to mediate end to crisis

VATICAN CITY – After five nights of listening to bombs exploding, the apostolic vicar of Tripoli, Libya, said it is time for the African Union to try to mediate an end to the violence.

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January 19, 2012

Advent begins Nov. 30

Even before the last pieces of meat are picked clean from the leftover Thanksgiving turkey, many Americans are already listening to Christmas carols on the radio and cramming into stores to buy holiday gifts.

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January 19, 2012