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Honor art students enter designs in tree festival

Towson Catholic High School senior Brittani Perez carefully painted half the white masquerade mask in royal blue, paint specs spattered on her hands. The student’s mask was one of many to adorn a seven-foot Christmas tree which her art class entered in The Festival of the Trees competition over Thanksgiving weekend.
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WYD organizers: Preparations are on track, minor problems need solved

MADRID – With a month to go before half a million young Catholics descend on Madrid, “there are an infinite number of small problems to solve,” said the executive director of World Youth Day 2011.
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Respect Life group to host Mother/Daughter Tea in Westminster

Calling all mothers, grandmothers, aunts and girls ages 12-18: Try a new twist on teatime.
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Smaller incision offers big benefits in ACL surgery

An alternative to traditional anterior cruciate ligament surgery is becoming more popular because it gives the knee more stability and uses a much smaller incision. The newer approach takes a tendon from a cadaver, which is called aligraft, and uses a double bundle of that tendon to repair the ACL.
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DREAM Act supporters plan Sabbath push in September

WASHINGTON – As the effort to pass the DREAM Act hits its 10th anniversary, churches, synagogues and mosques around the country will devote a September weekend to teaching their congregations about the faith-based reasons to work for its passage.
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Women, men experience sin differently, papal theologian says

VATICAN CITY – Of the seven deadly sins, men are more prone to be tempted by lust, while women more often succumb to the sin of pride, the papal theologian said.
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101-year-old Josephite priest, Father Robert O’Connell dies

A funeral Mass was offered Nov. 27 for Father Robert O’Connell, S.S.J., who at 101 was the longest-lived Josephite priest, one who had served God for 66 years.
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Baltimore has biggest Hearts on Fire crowd yet

Jesuit Father Phil Hurley was back home July 8-9 and he couldn’t have been happier.
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Poll shows residents of Southern states most religious in country

PRINCETON, N.J. – As part of a series titled “State of the States,” a new Gallup Poll ranked the top religious states in the United States and found Southern states ranked highest on the list, while several states in the Northeast ranked the lowest.
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Cardinal criticizes idea of fatherless babies in bill

LONDON – A British cardinal has criticized proposals to allow lesbians to become joint legal parents of children created for them through in vitro fertilization.
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Regards to archbishop

I just wanted to tell the Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien how grateful I am that we have him here. I think he is such a positive, strong influence for our church right now. I was just thinking how fortunate we are to have leaders like our current pope and our archbishop. They are both warm...
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Former Legionaries official apologizes for defending Father Maciel

WASHINGTON – When it became public Feb. 4 that Legionaries of Christ founder Father Marcial Maciel Degollado had fathered a daughter, the order’s former communications director decided he had to apologize for having defended him after sex abuse allegations against the priest first became public in 1997.
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