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Vatican hopes postponed event marks end to illicit ordinations in China

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said it hoped the postponement of an illicit episcopal ordination in the diocese of Hankou would mark the end to all ordinations without papal approval in China.
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‘The Game’ brings out the best

For senior players like Mary McKay and Jordan Bateson, there is little need to explain “The Game.”
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Less chatter, more prayer at Mass

I would like to address two problems my wife and I and our 10-year-old son encounter every time we attend Mass. We regularly attend the 5 p.m. Mass on Saturday but have also noticed this problem when our needs call for us to attend a Sunday Mass. That is the subject of people talking in...
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Grandparents give eternal gifts

A grandfather was playing on the floor with his two-year-old grandson. Some change fell out of the grandfather’s pocket. The little grandson picked the money up and handed it to his grandfather. “This is yours,” he said. The grandfather handed the money back to the child and said: “Put this in your piggy bank.”
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Vatican launches video news channel on YouTube

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican launched a video channel on YouTube that will feature news coverage of Pope Benedict XVI and major Vatican events.
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Friars champion the importance of readiness

For the last seven lacrosse seasons, Archbishop Curley, Baltimore, has seen their program slowly, but surely, improve. After a solid effort in 2006, the Friars were edged out of the championship game by a lone goal in the semis against Park School, Baltimore; but now in 2007, the Friars are on a tear, undefeated and...
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WORTHY Calvert Hall student has bright future

TOWSON – Seventeen-year-old Christopher Sutton’s life seems as rich as the music coming from the saxophone he has played for the past three years.
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Mount de Sales retains spot on top 50 list

When visitors walk into Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, there’s a lived-in feeling that immediately strikes them. History and tradition converge with the present.
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Second-graders re-enact Last Supper

DENVER – It looked amazingly like the Leonardo da Vinci painting of the Last Supper – only the faces seated around the long table were those of 7- and 8-year-olds. For some 15 years, Karen Merten has had her second-graders at Blessed Sacrament School in Denver re-enact the Last Supper to deepen their understanding of...
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Josephite’s Vatican stamp collection one of world’s best

Josephite Father Edward J. Mullowney was just a young lad when in 1929 the Vatican became a sovereign city state through the Lateran Treaty made between Pope Piux XI and Italy’s Fascist prime minister, Benito Mussolini.
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The makings of an African-American president

This week was history in the making. A black man, whose father was from Kenya and whose mother was a white woman from the United States, became the 44th president of the United States – Barack H. Obama. His mother and maternal grandmother raised him. I am sure that they would have been very proud...
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Plan B a hoax

Shelia Wharam deserves our applause for her excellent exposé of Plan B, ‘the morning after pill,’ in “Strong Poison” (CR, March 22). She showed that Plan B does not reduce the number of pregnancies or abortions, and in fact it does itself function as an abortifacient. Also, one of its side effects is the life-threatening...
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