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Staying in touch is a healthy habit

Stay in touch with your friends, not just because you like them but because having them correlates with better health.
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Church must find more effective ways to evangelize, says pope

VATICAN CITY – New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Baynesville eighth-graders leave behind their green imprint

It’s true that recycling isn’t new, but for student council officers at Immaculate Heart of Mary School the idea of it has been recycled into a new passion – and one they want to leave behind.
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‘White Mass’ to be celebrated Oct. 21

The Baltimore Guild-Catholic Medical Association (BG-CMA) will celebrate its annual White Mass honoring St. Luke, patron of physicians, at 1 p.m. on Oct. 21 at the at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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Vatican AIDS conference focuses on need to change sexual behavior

VATICAN CITY – Back-to-back speeches at a Vatican AIDS conference illustrated that condoms in AIDS prevention remains a sensitive issue for both church officials and international health experts.
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Inauguration is no cause for celebration

After reading “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15), I was terribly disappointed to see the support and celebration from area Catholic schools. Some are even closing for the momentous occasion. I can’t believe with all the hoopla for a presidential candidate who won the election and proudly supports abortion on demand, embryonic...
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Twenty years of support for the newly single

When Claire Lotz of Fullerton received her divorce decree in the 1970s, the Catholic mother of two felt like a pariah in society and disconnected from her religion. “I didn’t know any other divorced people and I felt like I was excommunicated from the Church,” said Ms. Lotz, now a 65-year-old parishioner of St. Joseph,...
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Baltimore Catholic League honors first Hall of Fame class

Tony Guy traveled all over the world thanks to basketball, but the Loyola Blakefield graduate knows it would not have been possible without the Baltimore Catholic League.
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President Bush proclaims Jan. 18 National Sanctity of Human Life Day

WASHINGTON – Declaring that every life is “a gift from our Creator that is sacred, unique and worthy of protection,” President George W. Bush proclaimed Jan. 18, the Sunday before the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, as National Sanctity of Human Life Day.
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Sen. Kennedy not an example

This is in response to the Ronald P. Bowers letter concerning church teaching and government obligations…
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In Libya, religious continue to offer care, service to migrants

ROME - Despite the worsening crisis in Libya, religious women and men continue to offer pastoral care and desperately needed services to the country’s many migrants.
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