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Gators ‘upbeat’ all season

What a ride 2007-2008 was for head coach Jackie Boswell and The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, basketball team. Boswell knew early on that her team, made up of a handful of talented seniors and an eager group of underclassmen, were going to make a run for the title.
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Vatican says new norms will strengthen efforts against abusive priests

VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has revised its procedures for handling priestly sex abuse cases, streamlining disciplinary measures, extending the statute of limitations and defining child pornography as an act of sexual abuse of a minor.
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‘One, two, three…’ student directs parish music group

After the contemporary music group at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville, practices a song, the group’s director asks them to sing the last refrain again. And again, until they end the song just the right way.
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Closing session in Father Peyton cause July 20

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, will preside over the closing session of the Cause for Sainthood of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton during the 12:10 p.m. Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore July 20.
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Vatican statement on baptisms not meant to cause panic

WASHINGTON – A week after the Vatican announced that baptisms are invalid if they were not administered with the words “in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” the pastor at Christ the King Parish in Haddonfield, N.J., said he had not been inundated with questions from his...
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Makeover: Loyola, College of Notre Dame to offer scholarships to Boys Hope Girls Hope

This is a corrected version of an article that appeared in the July 15 edition of The Catholic Review. The College of Notre Dame of Maryland and Loyola University Maryland have changed lives in Baltimore for generations.
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Death penalty costs taxpayers $186 million

ANNAPOLIS – Armed with a new study that shows the death penalty has cost taxpayers at least $186 million, opponents of capital punishment urged a Senate committee to ban the death penalty in Maryland or at least commission a study to look at the issue.
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Caritas chapters organize as Alex’s aftereffects pound northern Mexico

MONTERREY, Mexico – Caritas chapters across northern Mexico have mobilized in response to Hurricane Alex, the aftereffects of which continue to threaten many residents in the border states of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila with flooding, mudslides and water and sanitation problems.
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Journey of Holy Week is apparent tragedy

The journey of Holy Week, which begins this Palm Sunday, is a journey of apparent tragedy. A young rabbi, Jesus of Nazareth, who preached love, who healed the sick, raised the dead, and gave hope to the hopeless, is to be crucified as a false prophet and blasphemer. How unfair can life be?
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Catholics venerate relics of Blessed Mother Teresa

Father Gerard Francik filled with emotion as he knelt in front of sandals and a crucifix worn by Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta.
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Catholic analyst says U.S. part of Middle East problem

JERUSALEM – A Catholic political analyst said the current U.S. administration is part of the problem in the Middle East, not the solution.
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Gospel in classroom

In response to Larry Bonkowski’s letter (CR, June 24), I offer three reasons why Catholic sponsored education for non-Catholic kids is important for our Catholic Church: Kristen, Nya and Nyjae. These fourth- and third-graders were baptized in April; all were non-Catholic kids who were attending St. Bernardine’s Catholic School. And of course, with them come...
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