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Baltimore educators to share Texas-Mexico border experience

Once two nuns and an associate of the School Sisters of Notre Dame returned to Baltimore after witnessing the immigration and border issues at the Texas-Mexico boundary last month, they learned the U.S. Senate failed to produce an immigration-reform bill.
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Ground yourself in God

The old prospectors had a saying: “Gold is where you find it!” Apparently, so is spirituality. It’s especially amazing to find it “behind enemy lines.”
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Benedictine sisters celebrate golden jubilee

Benedictine Sisters Joanne Mastrogiacomo and Eileen Simms celebrated their golden jubilee, 50 years of monastic profession, Oct. 11 at the Carmelite Monastery Chapel in Towson.
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Development leader of 12 years to leave archdiocesan post

The executive director of development for the Archdiocese of Baltimore will be leaving his post of 12 years in late July to focus full time on a consulting business he established several years ago to help parishes and dioceses throughout the United States.
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Indian priest dies trying to save woman entangled in power line

COCHIN, India – A Syro-Malabar Catholic priest who had a role in the 2008 canonization of St. Alphonsa Muttathupandathu, India’s first woman saint, was killed while trying to save a parish worker who had become entangled in a power line.
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Gibbons alum provides rides, better opportunities with Vehicles for Change

A Buick Le Sabre may not be everyone’s dream car, but for Janice Birkhead, it is a lifeline.
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Black Catholic Congress attracts crowd

About 45 Catholics from the Archdiocese of Baltimore attending the 10th National Black Catholic Congress in Buffalo, N.Y., hope to boost evangelization and social justice on a parish and diocesan level.
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Confession app may be good for the soul

Three young men in Indiana – with the help of two priests – developed a Confession “app” for the iPhone and iPad that will help Catholics prepare better for the sacrament of reconciliation. With a little input from the user, such as age, gender and date of last confession, the app assists with a customized...
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Faithful Citizenship and living ‘The Gospel of Life’

We hear so much today about being faithful citizens, but what does this really mean to you? Does it mean that if you vote when election year rolls around you are a faithful citizen? Even though this is considered very important and a moral obligation, being a faithful citizen demands much more of us.
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Ellicott City church plans parish center

Parish leaders at St. Paul in Ellicott City have completed a master plan that calls for the demolition of a duplex on parish grounds and replacing it with a two-story parish center. As part of the master plan, the entrance on College Avenue will be widened to allow for safer ingress and egress.
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Tradition of relics on display at Walters Art Museum

“We long to be perfectly carved and sculpted in the image of good men,” wrote Hugh of St. Victor, the famous 12th century scholar and teacher at the royal abbey in Paris, in a manual for young novices.
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Clergy, residents pray for peace in Cherry Hill

Teach the children well, so they may learn the ways of God before the ways of the gangs.
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