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January 19, 2012

It’s curtains for IND senior stage managers

One objective seniors Mara Wild and Melanie Rae want to carry through before they graduate from the Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, is to upgrade the 11-year-old black onstage traveling curtains in the school auditorium. They have sewn holes in the curtains so many times, they were told to stop because repairs were obvious.
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January 19, 2012

Learn to let go

One of the highlights of many a summer was a trip to Hershey Park. In my younger days as a parish priest I would go with the school kids. Invariably they would lure me onto a ride: “It's not scary, Father Joe.”
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January 19, 2012

Father William Collins to retire

Ordained in 1961, Father William A. Collins imagined he would always be a parish priest.
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January 19, 2012

Researcher sees continued need for embryonic stem cells

SAN FRANCISCO – Human embryonic stem cells will play a role in stem-cell research for years to come as scientists try to confirm a promising technique that reprograms adult cells to mimic embryonic stem cells, according to the interim chief of California’s state-funded stem-cell research institute.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien, Gov. O’Malley exchange letters on gay marriage

Two days before Gov. Martin J. O’Malley announced his July 22 decision to sponsor legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien sent him a private letter urging O’Malley – a Catholic – to “refrain” from promoting the redefinition of marriage.
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January 19, 2012

Latin American bishops highlight rise in drug-related problems

LIMA, Peru – A series of drug arrests in the United States and the arrival of Mexican troops in Ciudad Juarez, across the border from El Paso, Texas, have drawn increased attention to drug trafficking, a problem highlighted by the region’s Catholic bishops.
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January 19, 2012

Venezuelans vote down Chavez’s reforms

CARACAS, Venezuela – A package of constitutional reforms proposed by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez that would have increased the president’s powers and established a “socialist economy” was defeated narrowly by voters.
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January 19, 2012

New immigration law makes Christian charity illegal, say church leaders

MOBILE, Ala. - Alabama’s new immigration law will affect “every part” of undocumented immigrants’ lives and make “the exercise of our Christian religion” illegal, Mobile’s archbishop said in an Aug. 1 letter to Catholics.
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January 19, 2012

Federal appeals court upholds ruling Vatican can be sued over abuse

SAN FRANCISCO – The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco March 3 upheld a 2006 lower court ruling that the Vatican is not entitled to sovereign immunity from a clergy sex abuse lawsuit that named it as a defendant.
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January 19, 2012

War might have caused end of Christianity in Iraq

LONDON – The war in Iraq might have caused the end of Christianity in the country, said a Chaldean Catholic bishop.
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January 19, 2012

Catholics rally for life through Summer of Mercy events

About 270 people took a neighborhood walk together on a hot summer evening in Germantown July 31. As part of the Summer of Mercy 2.0 events to witness for life, people of all ages processed from Mother Seton Church praying the rosary, and they walked a few blocks to the nearby office complex, where late-term...
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January 19, 2012

Africa’s poverty, culture counter church efforts to control HIV

LUSAKA, Zambia – Extreme poverty and cultural practices are contributing to the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, despite efforts to control HIV, said church officials.
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