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Powered by a wheelchair, student creates presentation

Nicholas Sabo will graduate from high school this spring, but he’s done plenty of teaching as well as learning. The 21-year-old, who attends South River High School in Edgewater and is a parishioner of Holy Family, Davidsonville, has cerebral palsy.
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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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Archdiocese establishes office for worship

Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot is stepping down as chancellor of the Archdiocese of Baltimore to take on a new role as director of a new archdiocesan office for worship.
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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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Plans to fly Blessed Pier Giorgio’s body to World Youth Day

ROME (CNS) -- Logistical details are being finalized in an attempt to fly the body of Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati to Sydney, Australia, for veneration by young people at World Youth Day in July.
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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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Youths focus on God at Religious Education Congress

ANAHEIM, Calif. – “Nowhere you’ve been or anything you’ve ever done in your life has taken you more than one step away from Christ,” speaker Steve Angrisano told a sold-out arena of high school students and their chaperones in Anaheim.
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Pope establishes structure for Anglicans uniting with Rome

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has established a special structure for Anglicans who want to be in full communion with the Roman Catholic Church while preserving aspects of their Anglican spiritual and liturgical heritage, said U.S. Cardinal William J. Levada.
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Pope appeals for peace in Iraq after kidnap of archbishop

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI appealed for peace and security in Iraq after kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, and killed the three people who were traveling with him.
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Marriage not just a private matter, bishops say in proposed pastoral

WASHINGTON – Hoping to reverse what they call “a disturbing trend” toward viewing marriage as “a mostly private matter” with personal satisfaction as its only goal, the U.S. Catholic bishops will debate and vote on a 57-page pastoral letter on marriage at their Nov. 16-19 meeting in Baltimore.
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Kidnappers take Iraqi archbishop, kill his three companions

ROME – Kidnappers abducted Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho of Mosul, Iraq, and killed the three people who were traveling with him.
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Maryvale junior doesn’t settle for average

Colin Devlin makes the same pledge to all his varsity soccer players at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville: if they make their college soccer team, he’ll be at their first game to watch them play.
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