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Waiting for the pope: Planning to chat with him about peace and cats

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. – Hundreds of military personnel and their families and dozens of students from a nearby Catholic high school perched on bleachers set up at the edge of the tarmac at Andrews Air Force Base to greet Pope Benedict XVI on his first U.S. visit as pope.
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Maryvale taking a bite of Apple’s iPad

BROOKLANDVILLE – Mount St. Joseph High School math teacher Shaun Kilduff uses a laptop to aid his instruction. The father of a Maryvale Preparatory School senior was introduced to potentially the future of Catholic education April 13 – the iPad.
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Hundreds turn out for feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Little girls resplendent in the garb of Latin America walked up the aisle to bring red, white and yellow roses to their beloved Our Lady of Guadalupe. Boys wearing vests emblazoned with the Virgin Mary shook maracas as they performed an Aztec dance. Mariachis in black sombreros played in the sanctuary near the framed replica...
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Priests, seminarians jazz up vocations fundraising with concert

While Father Louis Bianco is certainly in tune with parish life at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, where he serves as associate pastor, the priest is also instrumental in other ways.
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Archdiocesan Pilgrimage is May 7

Catholics from throughout the region are invited to participate in the May 7 Archdiocesan Pilgrimage to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
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Cardinal Dulles dies at 90; Jesuit theologian made a cardinal in ‘01

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Avery Dulles, a Jesuit theologian who was made a cardinal in 2001, died Dec. 12 at the Jesuit infirmary in New York, Murray-Weigel Hall. A cause of death was not released but he had been in poor health. He was 90 years old.
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John Carroll is poised for a repeat in 2008

The 2007 defending IAAM A Conference lacrosse champions, the John Carroll Patriots, are on a roll this spring, and their season just keeps getting better and better.
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Clergy shortage, shifting demographics bring need for change in parishes

No one knows the importance of pastoral planning like Monsignor James W. Hannon. As pastor of six parishes in the westernmost corner of the archdiocese and temporary pastor of three others in Cumberland and Mount Savage, the priest depends on the cooperation of clergy and laity alike.
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PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, was a sponsor of Stuff-A-Bus, a Thanksgiving Food Drive coordinated by Mix 106.5 Radio. Food donations were stuffed into an MTA bus and donated to the Maryland Food Bank. Calvert Hall faculty, staff, students and families lent a hand with two Stuff-A-Bus events in Ellicott City and White Marsh...
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Pope says he wants to bring message of hope to U.S., U.N.

VATICAN CITY – In a videotaped message, Pope Benedict XVI said he wants to bring a message of Christian hope to all Americans and to the United Nations when he visit in mid-April.
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Sudanese bishops urge rejection of violence as Southern Sudan emerges

JUBA, Southern Sudan – Sudan’s Catholic bishops called upon the people of Sudan and the emerging nation of South Sudan “to embrace a culture of peace and to reject violence” and to respect human life and dignity as both regions prepare for the formal Declaration of Independence of the South July 9.
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Bishop says Texas Catholic hospitals performed direct sterilizations

WASHINGTON – The bishop of Tyler, Texas, has concluded that Catholic hospitals in his diocese have violated ethical directives by performing sterilizations.
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