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Boulder’s field of crosses moves faithful, shows abortion’s impact

BOULDER, Colo. – A pro-life project to build and display 3,300 crosses in memory of the number of babies aborted daily drew more than 80 willing participants at Sacred Heart of Mary Church in Boulder.
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Gov. O’Malley signs death penalty restrictions

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley signed a bill May 7 that imposes significant restrictions on the death penalty in Maryland. The new law allows capital punishment only in murder cases where there is biological evidence, videotaped evidence or a videotaped confession.
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Nurse says farewell after 43 years

When Phyllis Keehan finds something that works for her, she sticks with it. The nurse and wound specialist is retiring from Bon Secours Hospital after 43 years – and she learned her profession at the Baltimore hospital’s nursing school.
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Archbishop O’Brien dedicates expanded Seafarers’ Center

DUNDALK – Clergy, volunteers, donors and friends gathered Oct. 15 to celebrate the dedication and ribbon cutting for the newly renovated and expanded Apostleship of the Sea Stella Maris International Seafarers’ Center. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien presided over the prayer service and blessed the center’s new chapel and outdoor monument.
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New center aims to reintroduce St. Thomas Aquinas to modern world

WASHINGTON – A conviction that the 13th-century writings of St. Thomas Aquinas can foster a fruitful dialogue with contemporary culture is the true cornerstone of the newly built academic center and theological library recently inaugurated at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington.
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Program addresses needs in Panama, Baltimore City

Panama lacks special education for students with learning disabilities. Special education teachers are needed in Baltimore City schools.
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U.S. bishops find Iraqi Christians want return to peace, meaningful jobs

WASHINGTON – Iraqis want a return to peace, security and stability and the chance to secure meaningful employment, said two U.S. bishops who traveled to Baghdad in a demonstration of the American Catholic Church’s solidarity with the country’s violence-weary Christians.
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Senior shares memories of Holy Cross band

Norman Beard lost contact with music after he enlisted in the Army, but he still refers to his days in the Holy Cross Boys Band of South Baltimore as some of the best years of his early life. When the band formed in 1933, Mr. Beard was a fifth-grader interested in music, but “no one...
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Dons take National Catholic Swimming Champion title

The Loyola Blakefield, Towson, Dons traveled to Villanova University on Jan. 27 to test their depth and determination and came home the National Catholic Swimming Champion for the third time in 12 years.
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It is a ‘shameful tragedy’ people go hungry in the world, pope says

VATICAN CITY – One of the most urgent and critical social problems afflicting the world today is the “shameful tragedy that one-fifth of humanity still goes hungry,” Pope Benedict XVI told members of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.
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Canadian bishop addresses hearings on aboriginal schools

OTTAWA – One of seven Canadian bishops who met for the first time with the Assembly of First Nations’ national chief said he hopes the upcoming hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission will be balanced.
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