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Justice Action Week’s impact lingers for alumni

Patrick Terranova has seen the social injustices that haunt many of Baltimore’s streets, and he’s compelled to try and make a change.
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John Carroll basketball rules Baltimore Catholic League in first season

John Carroll boys’ basketball coach Tony Martin had one goal when he joined the Bel Air school in 2005: get his team into the prestigious Baltimore Catholic League.
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Catholic University sees record-breaking fundraising, enrollment

BALTIMORE – The Catholic University of America has had a record-breaking year for freshman enrollment and for national fundraising, its president, Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, reported Nov. 10 to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
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Addressing racism requires a new language, ministry leaders say

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- It doesn't take long for newcomers at St. Matthew Church in Baltimore to be welcomed by parishioners.
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Drought, supply, speculation drive world food prices to record high

WASHINGTON – Prices for basic foods such as sugar, cereals and edible oils were at or near record highs worldwide in February, according to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization.
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‘Martin Luther King’s dream is coming true’

The morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American ever elected president of the United States, Skipp Sanders and fellow black Catholics in Baltimore rejoiced.
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Triplets’ dedication to scouts pays off

If there’s one thing the Podhorniak family knows, it is how to get things done. Rosemary Podhorniak smiles when she talks about her triplet sons - Nicholas, Matthew and Jimmy - ascending to Eagle Scout status May 21 in a ceremony at St. Joseph, Fullerton, but the boys just shrug their shoulders as if to...
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This Lent, look inside

Spiritual directors and social scientists sometimes summarize all human behavior under the three wants: wanting approval, wanting control and wanting to be safe. Most of our efforts on the ego level are seeking to attain one of these three wants.
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Was it race, or something else, that led to an Obama victory?

While supporters can scarcely contain their euphoria over Sen. Barack Obama’s historic win of the U.S. presidency – the first for a black man – I am still stuck chewing on the fact that Obama was a major political party’s nominee for president in the first place, let alone the victor in the 2008 epic...
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Oblates to focus their missionary zeal on secular culture of U.S.

SAN ANTONIO – The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate have never been known for shrinking from difficult tasks.
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Empty Bowls fill souls

A simple soup bowl – and the person who donates or buys it – can alleviate hunger. Or it can remain empty, as do the stomachs of too many people right here in Baltimore.
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Pope reminds faithful that death brings eternal life for loved ones

VATICAN CITY – The death of a loved one brings pain and sadness, but Christians believe their loved ones will have eternal life in Jesus Christ and that they will be united again with them in heaven, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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