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Calvert Hall College dismisses head football coach

The administration of Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, after meeting with Coach Jay Robinson, announced that the school is seeking a new head coach for the 2007 football season. The school’s administration offered this statement: “We thank Jay for his integrity, dedication and hard work throughout the past eight years. Jay has been invited...
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Move over, ‘Glee.’ Catholic show-choir invitational in its 37th year

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Long before there was the hit television program “Glee,” Bishop Luers High School in Fort Wayne was laying the groundwork for show-choir invitationals.
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Catholics can find comfort in death, expert says

During her 30 years as a physician and pediatrician, Dr. Patricia Fosarelli has seen her fair share of death and mourning.
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Grap breaks school record

On Dec. 8, two minutes into the second half of a 52-35 non-conference basketball victory over Havre de Grace High School, senior Briana Grap hit a three-point field goal giving her 1,143 career points and the career scoring record for women at Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School, Middle River. Grap has twice been...
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Milwaukee archbishop says hard times don’t justify restricting workers’ rights

MILWAUKEE – Quoting Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a statement Feb. 16 that came down squarely in favor of workers’ rights in the face of efforts by Wisconsin’s new governor to restrict those rights.
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Archbishop administers first confirmations as Baltimore shepherd

FREDERICK – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien encouraged 30 confirmation candidates from St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick to take a stand for their faith during an Oct. 26 Mass.
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British cardinal denounces secularization

LONDON (CNS) -- A British cardinal said Great Britain is being reduced to a "profoundly needy land" by attempts to purge religion from public life. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor of Westminster, president of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, said secularization has led to the collapse of shared moral values and has created a sense...
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Orioles’ Ernie Tyler, St. Ignatius parishioner, dies

Ernie Tyler was the Iron Man before Cal Ripken Jr. The Orioles longtime umpire attendant, who worked 3,819 consecutive home games at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards between 1960 and 2007, died at the age of 86 Feb. 11.
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The Best Kept Secret in the Church

In mid-October my wife Marilyn and I attended our second week-long course on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB). Why would a couple married for 36 years, with four adult children, and no academic background in theology spend so much money, time, and energy learning about such an esoteric subject?
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New All Saints cake lady brightens holiday spirits

When approaching the front of Rita Martin’s Randallstown home, one can’t help but notice the attention the New All Saints, Liberty Heights, parishioner has given to the colorful Christmas decorations illuminating the house. But it’s the aroma of baking rum cakes that really lets new arrivers know the spirit of the holidays is alive and...
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Tucson shooting spree prompts renewed debate on gun-control issue in US

DETROIT – Avid outdoorsman and hunter Father Joe Classen, associate pastor at Holy Spirit Parish in Maryland Heights, Mo., has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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St. Joseph team heads to Tanzania

Malaria is among the maladies adversely affecting the quality of life in Tanzania.
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