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Gaels hope to reach the top in 2008

As basketball teams are wrapping up their seasons and the high school academic year is more than half over, it could only mean one thing: The Mount St. Joseph, Irvington, baseball season is finally underway.
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Holy Cross steeple hosting South Baltimore cell tower

Federal Hill’s historic Holy Cross church, part of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore, is hosting a stealth cell phone tower in its steeple.
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People, Places, Things

Faith formation classes at Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, collected 405 boxes of cereal for Catholic Charities’ Our Daily Bread Employment Center in the parish’s annual Cereal Election. Contributors vote by donating a favorite cereal; 100 of those boxes were collected by the children in Mary O’Malley’s family, whose late husband, Michael O’Malley, was...
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Nun pleads guilty to theft from the Omaha Archdiocese

OMAHA, Neb. – Notre Dame Sister Barbara Markey, internationally renowned for her pioneering work in marriage preparation, has pled guilty to a charge of stealing more than $1,500 from the Omaha Archdiocese.
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Archdiocesan youths lock in to their calling at “Adore-a-thon”

GLEN BURNIE – After a week of classroom stress and social angst, many high schoolers use Friday nights to blow off steam at parties.
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Mercy students stoke projects in Cambodia and Kenya

Standing in front of Mercy High School, Baltimore, students last year, a small unassuming nun challenged the teens to consider what they could do to make the world a better place.
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At Vatican, pilgrims remember pope as man of peace

VATICAN CITY – Pilgrims gathered in St. Peter’s Square to mark the third anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s death remembered him as a man of peace and a pastoral father who inspired a whole generation of young people around the world.
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UPDATED – Pro-life supporters march for change in Annapolis

ANNAPOLIS – Scared, unmarried and alone, Tracy Tiernan didn’t think she had many options when she became pregnant. She went to a Severna Park abortion clinic and dealt with her “problem” in the way society told her was okay.
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Congolese bishops denounce tolerance of hostilities in their country

KINSHASA, Congo – A group of Congolese bishops has denounced the international community’s tolerance of increasing hostilities in eastern Congo, which they called a “silent genocide” against the civilian population there.
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Challenge lukewarm Catholics to help church in U.S.

It used to be said that Roman Catholics were the largest religious body in the United States and ex-Roman Catholics the second largest. Now that needs revising. It seems that former Catholics are only the third largest group, behind Catholics and Southern Baptists. Is this progress?
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Prayer vigil planned in support of traditional marriage

As the House of Delegates prepares to vote on a bill legalizing same-sex marriage, Catholics will join others in the faith community for a March 11 prayer vigil in support of traditional marriage.
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CCHD had cut funds to ACORN before campaign

BALTIMORE – The Catholic Campaign for Human Development cut off funding earlier this year to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, known as ACORN, for reasons unrelated to the organization’s current troubles over voter registration and partisan politics, reported the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ subcommittee on CCHD.
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