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Father Kelmartin, area pastor, dies

Father John. J. Kelmartin, a former pastor of St. Bartholomew in Manchester and Our Lady of Victory in Arbutus who taught in several seminaries across the country, died March 7 at Stella Maris Hospice in Timonium. He was 83.
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Bishop Galeone of St. Augustine retires; ministry began in Baltimore

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI has accepted the resignation of Bishop Victor B. Galeone as head of the Diocese of St. Augustine, Fla., and appointed Auxiliary Bishop Felipe de Jesus Estevez of Miami to succeed him.
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Source: Israel, Vatican eager to finalize talks before papal visit

JERUSALEM – Israeli and Vatican negotiators appear eager to finalize negotiations on fiscal and property matters prior to the pope’s visit to the Holy Land, a source close to the negotiations said.
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Pennsylvania approves plates

PHILADELPHIA – Pennsylvania has become the latest state to approve the use of a “Choose Life” specialty license plate. The plates were approved last November and became available for purchase in January. The cost per plate is $40. The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation receives $20, and the other $20 is an annual membership fee in...
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Local clinics fulfill vital role in Haiti’s strained health care system

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Yvrose Jacques uses her one leg to roll her wheelchair out of the hospital ward and onto the veranda at the LaKu LaPe Clinic to get a little fresh air and look up at the clear blue sky.
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Vatican foundation solicits funds for AIDS drugs for worldwide use

VATICAN CITY – “Light a star on the tree of life” by helping the Vatican provide antiretroviral drugs to people with AIDS in the world’s poorest countries, said Cardinal Javier Lozano Barragan.
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The faithful answer the call to donate live-saving blood

Marylanders are taken to hospital emergency rooms in need of care every day and doctors throughout the state are ready to help save their lives, but that task might be impossible without blood donors. Parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore are calling on the faithful to pull up their sleeves and literally give of themselves...
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Ravens’ Birk speaks up about faith

Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk has been taking time to reach out to Baltimore Catholics. On April 10, he spoke to teens from his parish of The Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier in Hunt Valley.
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‘Historic day’ finally comes for Holy Family

Calling it a “historic day” for the parish, Archdiocese of Baltimore auxiliary bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski helped Holy Family parish in Davidsonville break ground on a new religious education center, adoration chapel and social hall Dec. 13.
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Scout Mass attracts hundreds

More than 600 Scouts, parents, troop leaders and family members attended the 61st annual Archdiocesan Scout Mass March 4 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore. This was the third time Michael Shindledecker, 13, from Pack 801, St. Mark, Fallston, has participated in the Scout Mass....
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Florida deacon’s Stations of Cross seen as ‘prayer molded into clay’

WINTER PARK, Fla. – Far more than a visual freeze frame of a moment in time, the Stations of the Cross sculpted by Deacon Al Castellana for Sts. Peter and Paul Parish in Winter Park compress the intensity of emotion as well.
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Newman Centers are anchor of faith at public colleges

There is a sense of sadness and apprehension that washes over most parents as they drop their children off for college.
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