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John Carroll rallies for Gauthier

Fifty members of The John Carroll School community came together last month in celebration and hope for Tess Gauthier, a faculty member and coach who is taking on her greatest battle yet: breast cancer.
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Appeals court grants stay on same-sex marriages in California

WASHINGTON – The Aug. 16 decision by a three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to prevent the state of California from conducting same-sex marriages while an appeal is under way drew cheers from same-sex marriage opponents.
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Family of girl who escaped death among World Youth Day ambassadors

PERTH, Australia – The Catholic family of an 8-year-old girl who narrowly escaped death twice was named among nine ambassadors for World Youth Day 2008.
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Who will care for the newly uninsured? Georgetown med students step up

WASHINGTON – When most provisions of the new health reform legislation take effect in 2014, an estimated 32 million people who had been without health insurance when the reform effort began will be insured. But who will be caring for them?
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New principal appointed to Seton Keough

Dennis Meehan, a 22-year principal of Bishop Ludden High School in Syracuse, N.Y., has been appointed by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as principal of The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, effective in July. Mr. Meehan, who was chosen by a five-member search committee of experienced educators in the Baltimore area, succeeds Dr. B. Curtis Turner,...
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High school students serve the world

As the daughter of a special needs teacher, Jamie Hutcheson has always been interested in helping children and those in need.
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Conference examines Homeland Security’s handling of immigration

WASHINGTON – Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was created as an umbrella agency, its handling of immigration-related situations came in for harsh criticism at an immigration law and policy conference May 20.
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Conference participants pursue truth about women’s health, fertility

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Doctors from around the world came to Greenville in late July to present the latest breakthroughs in helping improve women’s health, fertility and overall well-being.
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‘The goal is God,’ says new Pittsburgh Symphony music director

PITTSBURGH – Manfred Honeck, the new music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, said he has come to understand how God has worked in his life and led him to where he is.
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Loud and clear

I think I’m in love. “With whom?” you may ask. With that female voice inside my GPS system!
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YWCA leadership award presented to college president

Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.
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Pittsburgh Diocese sued after suicide of man who said priest sexually abused him

PITTSBURGH – The Diocese of Pittsburgh has denied any negligence or wrongdoing in the case of a man who had alleged he was abused by a diocesan priest as a child in the early 1980s and committed suicide in May.
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