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Bon Secours Spiritual Center offers calming effect

Some groups that visit the Bon Secours Spiritual Center (BSSC), Marriottsville, request the Rocking Chair Room.
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Pope entrusts cause of peace to concentration camp martyrs

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI entrusted the cause of world peace to the martyrs of World War II concentration camps, including a German priest executed for his hostility to the Nazi regime.
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At 80 years, Ascension looks to rise again

While Archdiocese of Baltimore officials discuss the future of Catholic schools, Church of The Ascension in Halethorpe believes its 80-year-old educational institution is vital to the community’s future.
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Parishioners give Archbishop O’Brien a rock-star’s reception

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien figured out a way to fill the pews during a regularly scheduled 8:15 a.m. weekday Mass at Our Lady of Fatima, Baltimore. He showed up.
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Loyola Blakefield students go on entertainment tour

Loyola Blakefield drama teacher Christian Garretson has long admired his school’s commitment to summer service trips for students, but wanted to take it a step further.
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New head of Covenant House glad to ‘come home’ to work he loves

WASHINGTON – Kevin Ryan, the new president and CEO of Covenant House, is no stranger to the pressing needs today’s troubled youths are facing.
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Vatican, Bosnia-Herzegovina sign accord

VATICAN CITY – An accord designed to guarantee religious rights and freedoms for the Catholic Church in Bosnia-Herzegovina formally went into effect Oct. 25 during a special ceremony at the Vatican.
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Mount graduate inspires others to act

Matt Himes, a 2011 Mount St. Mary’s graduate and a parishioner of St. Isaac Jogues in Carney received the school’s The Ibis Service award.
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Challenges lead to hope

One only has to read the newspaper or listen to the news reports to capture the sense of anxiety that the financial turmoil has created in our society. The feeling of uncertainty, the apprehension of not knowing what tomorrow brings and the sense of insecurity has affected every aspect of our daily lives. Our Catholic...
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Sister Joan Gormley dies

Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Harrisburg will celebrate a funeral Mass on Oct. 24 at the Chapel of the Immaculate Conception at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, for Sister Joan Gormley.
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Josephite’s Vatican stamp collection one of world’s best

Josephite Father Edward J. Mullowney was just a young lad when in 1929 the Vatican became a sovereign city state through the Lateran Treaty made between Pope Piux XI and Italy’s Fascist prime minister, Benito Mussolini.
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The makings of an African-American president

This week was history in the making. A black man, whose father was from Kenya and whose mother was a white woman from the United States, became the 44th president of the United States – Barack H. Obama. His mother and maternal grandmother raised him. I am sure that they would have been very proud...
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