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Quest for God’s love, wisdom must never stop, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Never stop searching for God and being open to receiving his love and wisdom, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Once-homeless man gives thanks for a blessed life

DOVER, Pa. – Ed Goad points to the newspaper photo of the scruffy, bearded man wearing a floppy hat and living under the Jones Falls Expressway.
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Maryland pastoral letter on sick and dying sparks interest

Two weeks after Maryland’s Catholic bishops unveiled their June 6 pastoral letter on caring for the sick and dying, more than 3,000 people in 28 states requested copies of the 35-page document.
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Maryland man files abuse suit against priest, Illinois religious order

CHICAGO – A Maryland man filed a civil suit April 14 in U.S. District Court in Chicago claiming that a priest of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart sexually abused him over an eight-year period when he was a child in the 1980s.
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Mr. Cao goes to Washington as first Vietnamese-American in Congress

NEW ORLEANS – If his recent whirlwind tour of Capitol Hill was any indication, Anh “Joseph” Cao knows he will be in for the ride of his life over the next two years.
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Closed St. Alphonsus School to be transformed into condos

When Alex Radzius walked out of St. Alphonsus, Baltimore, after Mass on a recent Sunday morning, he noticed the building across Saratoga Street where he attended school in the 1950s is primed to become up-scale condos for future city dwellers. “I see it as a good thing,” the St. Alphonsus parishioner said. “It’s going to...
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Protect rights, well-being of circus workers, animals, says Vatican

VATICAN CITY – The rights of circus and carnival workers must be protected and circus animals must be properly cared for and treated ethically, said a top Vatican official.
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Ex-cop leads crew at New Cathedral Cemetery

Frederick V. Roussey heads a cemetery crew like the city cop he once was. The day begins with morning roll call in the house at a corner of New Cathedral Cemetery, where he is superintendent. There, he dispatches his crew in new fire-engine-red trucks to the 125-acre cemetery in West Baltimore.
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Sykesville Marianist marks golden jubilee

“Retirement” isn’t in Father Paul A. Reich’s vocabulary. A Marianist priest for 50 years, the 78-year-old associate pastor of St. Joseph in Sykesville said he loves his ministry as much as ever and he has no plans of slowing down. “There’s always something to do once you’re ordained,” he said with a smile. “I’ve never...
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Immigration stance wrong

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s column “Immigration a Test of Faith” (CR, Feb. 24) is a test of faith to read on the part of this Catholic who cannot understand the position he is taking on immigrants who are here in this country illegally. Instead of focusing on fixing the perceived problem with the immigration process...
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Follow Mary’s example, archbishop urges

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien urged Catholics to follow the example of the Blessed Virgin Mary by accepting God’s will despite fears and worries.
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St. Joseph cancer center joins pilot program

The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, has announced it will participate in a pilot program to extend the reach of National Cancer Institute (NCI) research and state-of-the-art treatment into more states, cities and towns.
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