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Health care reform

David Cramer (CR, Sept. 10) took issue with the suggestion that health care Reform might be compromised just because of the abortion issue. He felt it was a “justice” issue. I can’t agree more. Right now there is no justice for pre-born children, and until the Catholic hierarchy, pastors and voters insist on giving this...
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Young adult ministry shifts focus

The Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry is shifting from a focus on young adult programs to an approach they hope will infuse young adults throughout parish life.
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Obliged to oppose that which our faith decries

The letters to the editor of Michael Macro and Richard E. Wachter (CR, Sept. 17) taking issue with Archbishop O’Brien’s comments on Sen. Edward Kennedy reflect an unbecoming ignorance of our Catholic faith.
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New Zealand’s Catholic chaplains embrace Antarctica

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand – Not many changes from his last trip to Antarctica, reported a priest from New Zealand: The ice runway is nearer to the base, it’s colder than 10 below zero, but the sky is blue, he added.
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Universality of calling crosses cultures, eras

Serving at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, I have the privilege of living with priests and seminarians from all over our country. Currently, we have a house of more than 200 seminar­ians and 70 priests from all across our land. In addition, the city of Rome has a wide variety of national colleges...
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Somebody cares when parishioners are hospitalized

The Caring Ministry at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Crofton, just celebrated its fifth anniversary, and five is the magic number for the group of volunteers.
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Ellicott City, Frederick schools earn national Blue Ribbon distinction

Two elementary Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been named Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education.
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Park Heights educator honored as principal of the year

Pamela Sanders was thinking about retiring from a three-decade career in the Baltimore City public school system when her former pastor at St. Ambrose in Park Heights asked a favor. The former principal was stepping down and Father John Pfannenstiel, O.F.M. Cap., wanted Ms. Sanders to succeed her at the inner-city school.
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Notre Dame’s athletic director holds the line on faith and football

INDIANAPOLIS – Jack Swarbrick, athletic director at the University of Notre Dame for the past year, said “a common thread of faith” weaves through every part of his life.
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Mexican family gave up dream because of state law

TULSA, Okla. – Sergio Garcia is a man who has taken a tremendous risk – and lost. Garcia and his wife, Lola, are illegal immigrants from Mexico. Because of a new Oklahoma state law, they made the difficult decision to give up the dream they have worked toward for the past eight years and planned...
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Hoping for a miracle

How I wish that the people we love and the things we love could last forever. But that is not life on this planet.
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Archbishop O’Brien to form priest advisory council

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has begun the process of establishing his presbyteral council, a key consultative body of priests from throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore required by the Code of Canon Law.
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