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Pledges to Archbishop’s Annual Appeal top $8.4 million

At the first of four receptions thanking volunteers who worked on the 2009 Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, everyone agreed: The appeal works.
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Pope tells Armenian Orthodox God can work miracle of Christian unity

VATICAN CITY – God can work miracles, including the miracle of Christian unity, Pope Benedict XVI told the Armenian Orthodox patriarch and 18 bishops.
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Maine voters reject gay marriage; Catholics win two governor races

WASHINGTON - Maine voters Nov. 3 rejected same-sex marriage, overturning a marriage equality law passed in May.
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Blazers LAX alive in IAAM A Conference

The Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, lacrosse team is poised and ready to go as the IAAM lacrosse tournament is in full swing.
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Archbishop blesses new shrine in salt mine 120 stories beneath Detroit

DETROIT – Clad in a black miner’s jacket and sky blue hard hat, Detroit Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron descended 1,200 feet and 400 million years into the salt of the earth.
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At May Procession, students honor Blessed Virgin with hearts, hands, voices

After a beautiful May Procession May 2, St. Agnes School’s May Queen, Bridget Boland, sat quietly in the third pew of the Catonsville church and looked up at the statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary with reverence and love.
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Of spiders and eternity

As we see the leaves changing each autumn, we’re reminded that all of that beauty is as a result of the leaves dying. November is a liturgical reminder of death. The first day of November we honor the saints who passed through death to eternal life. The second day, in a special way, but the...
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Violent video games prove their own source of worry on the tube

WASHINGTON – Don’t like what you see on TV? Pick your poison. One kind of poison is the unwelcome stuff that’s sent through the airwaves (or public rights-of-way, thanks to cable) with offensive or objectionable content that you, the viewer, never asked for in the first place.
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Priest as spiritual father and companion

“Spiritual Father” is perhaps the most common title used today to describe a Roman Catholic ministerial priest. It’s also the most comprehensive, all-embracing description of what a priest is expected to be and do as he prolongs the life-giving presence of Christ among us.
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Pope lays out crossroads for Catholic higher education

Midway through his U.S. visit, Pope Benedict XVI told Catholic college and university presidents that using a Catholic campus as a platform to teach something that contradicts the church’s teaching is an abuse of academic freedom. Commenting on that remark, Father Thomas Reese, S.J., offered an interesting slant. “In a sense, he’s exercising his own...
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UN nuncio says world must not forget hardships of indigenous people

UNITED NATIONS – In a time of economic crisis, the challenges of indigenous people should not be forgotten, the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations told a U.N. committee Oct. 19.
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Second collection benefits seminarians

The annual collection to benefit seminarians in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will take place May 3-4 in parishes. This is the only collection throughout the year that supports the archdiocese’s effort to form and educate men to become priests. All proceeds directly support the educational costs related to seminary formation. Each seminarian is formed pastorally,...
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