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Teens find meaning behind mission in Justice Action Week

Corrine Molz was like many idealistic teenagers who said they wanted to change the world, but never had a face for their noble mission.
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Archbishop O’Brien tours Washington County

HAGERSTOWN – Standing beneath a large painting of the crucifixion at St. Ann in Hagerstown, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien challenged Washington County parishioners to “embrace” the crosses that come into their lives.
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St. Ignatius parishioner has strong string of faith

For Sarah Harkins, a teenage interest in making clay rosaries began with some simple instructions. It blossomed into a calling.
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“Global citizens” and U.S. politics

A Canadian friend recently alerted me to an international petition being organized by Avaaz.org, a “community of global citizens who take action on the major issues facing the world today.” (According to the organization’s polyglots, “‘avaaz’...means ‘voice’ or ‘song’ in...Hindi, Urdu, Farsi, Nepalese, Dari, Turkish, and Bosnian.”) The petition asks “global citizens” around the world...
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White House official says Obama gave pope letter from Kennedy

VATICAN CITY – U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting with Pope Benedict XVI at the Vatican July 10, gave the pope a personal letter from Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who was diagnosed more than a year ago with brain cancer.
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After four centuries, Galileo to return to the Vatican

VATICAN CITY – Four centuries after he was called by church officials to retract teachings deemed suspect of heresy, the 17th-century Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei will be returning to Vatican City.
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St. Peter holds the key in marriage proposal

Anders Yanike has been sweeping Lauren Torbeck off her feet from the very beginning.
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Erickson donates to Catholic organizations

Erickson Retirement Communities, the Baltimore-based senior housing developer that operates Charlestown and Oak Crest Village, donated $1.2 million to nonprofit organizations across the country last year.
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Pope says moral value must be part of economic recovery, development

VATICAN CITY – Ethical values are needed to overcome the current global economic crisis as well as to eradicate hunger and promote the real development of all the world’s peoples, Pope Benedict XVI said in his new encyclical.
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Monsignor Cronin leaves a legacy of laughter in his wake

A funeral Mass will be offered March 5 for Monsignor James J. Cronin, a beloved pastor whose Irish wit and concern for his parishioners made him immensely popular.
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Corpus Christi could be Artscape’s biggest jewel

When the 2008 Artscape was completed, an exhausted Father Richard J. Bozzelli and Betsy Lafferty relaxed in the front room of Corpus Christi’s rectory.
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Vatican says baptisms using wrong words are not valid

VATICAN CITY – A baptism administered “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer and of the Sanctifier” is not a baptism at all, said the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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