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Vatican says Anglican document delay not due to married priests issue

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican has denied that the delay in publishing the apostolic constitution on Anglicans seeking admission to the Catholic Church has been caused by an internal Vatican debate over admitting married priests.
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Polish Catholic woman who saved children from Nazis dies at 98

WARSAW, Poland – Polish church leaders paid tribute to Irena Sendler, a Catholic social worker who saved approximately 2,500 Jewish children from being killed by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Iraq war widow is Baltimore native

When Donna Gilmore looked at her newborn grandson, Cornell Winston Gilmore III, this past September, she thought about her husband.
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After nearly four decades, New Cathedral Cemetery employee to retire

For Anne Lucido, the complexities of life and death are part of the job – literally. The St. Agnes, Catonsville, parishioner has worked at New Cathedral Cemetery in Baltimore for 37 years.
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Pope will travel to northern Italy in May to see Shroud of Turin

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will join hundreds of thousands of pilgrims traveling to northern Italy in 2010 to see the Shroud of Turin, which many believe is the burial cloth of Christ.
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Pope defends church’s teaching on artificial birth control

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI defended the church’s teaching against artificial birth control and said its wisdom has become clearer in light of new scientific discoveries and social trends.
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Officials in Chinese province continue to pressure, detain priests

HONG KONG – Local officials in China’s Hebei province continue to pressure priests to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
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Loyola College contributes to Good Stuff Campaign

As Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, graduating seniors prepare to leave the Charles Street campus, the college’s Good Stuff Campaign ensures unwanted household items will make their way to those in need.
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Harford associate pastor: Embracing the ‘universality’ of the Church

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien received a community of Episcopal sisters and their chaplain into the Catholic Church in September, the liturgy was especially meaningful for Father Stephen Sutton.
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Mount priest hosts TV show

On May 1, The Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) began airing its second season of “Catholicism on Campus,” a weekly show hosted by Monsignor Stuart Swetland, vice president of Catholic identity at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg.
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Promoting right to life requires fighting world hunger, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Defending the right to life requires promoting and establishing food security, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Three seminarians prepare for ordination as transitional deacons

A lawyer, a professional chef and a computer specialist will take one step closer to the priesthood when Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien ordains them transitional deacons at 10 a.m. on May 10 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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