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Federal loans offer students more options

If there’s one big mistake Zhanna Goltser sees students make when picking college loans, it’s turning to private lenders over the federal government.
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Obama, astronaut, Chilean mine survivor talk about prayer during crises

WASHINGTON – It is his faith in God, particularly “that biblical injunction to serve the least of these, that keeps me going and that keeps me from being overwhelmed,” by the challenges of his office, President Barack Obama said in remarks to the National Prayer Breakfast Feb. 3.
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Latinos seen as voting group key to outcome of presidential election

WASHINGTON – As pollsters and political analysts try to predict the outcome of the election, Latino voters have become a target for intense attention – by tea-leaf readers as well as the candidates.
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Free yourself to love yourself

In response to a column I wrote earlier this year about “living in the now,” a wonderful man gave me this very insightful prayer, a prayer that he says every day.
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Bishop Holley calls for end to targeting of black women for abortions

WASHINGTON – A leading black Catholic bishop called on African-Americans to “defend our community” against an abortion industry that he said is performing abortions on minority women at a disproportionate rate.
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Schools in Aberdeen, Glen Burnie prepared for BRAC influx

In 2007, after he was done with a stint at the U.S. Army War College at Carlisle (Pa.) Barracks, Col. Paul M. Nakasone was assigned to the National Security Administration in Fort Meade.
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Freedom and Responsibility of Human Acts

Every July 4, we join with our fellow citizens throughout this great country to celebrate the freedom that we enjoy because of the vision and sacrifice of the Founders of our nation. We cherish our freedom. The idea of living anywhere else on this planet where our rights and human dignity would be restricted is...
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Children with handicaps teach valuable pro-life lessons

Suppose you were pregnant, and told by your doctor that you should have an abortion? You were told that to have the child would not only put an enormous burden on you, coping with multiple handicaps, but it would also be unfair to the child, having to undergo multiple surgeries and live with these handicaps.
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Bishop Madden hopeful about U.S.-Muslim relations

Improving relations between the United States and the Muslim world will depend on stronger diplomacy and better understanding between the two cultures, says Bishop Denis J. Madden, Baltimore’s urban vicar.
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EWTN acquires National Catholic Register; newspaper launched in 1927

IRONDALE, Ala. – The Eternal Word Television Network, based in Irondale, has signed a letter of intent to acquire the National Catholic Register, which describes itself as “the nation’s leading Catholic newspaper.”
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Monk’s display chronicles colorful history of vestments

The balding Benedictine monk points to the image of Jesus in the center of the glittering gold vestment.
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Tunis archbishop says people surprised at how quickly government fell

JERUSALEM – Despite hopes that calm would return to Tunisia following a violent weekend after the fall of the Tunisian government of Zine el Abidine Ben Ali, demonstrations and violence continued.
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