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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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Sister’s work comes with soundtrack

Sister Mary Roy Weiss, S.S.N.D., knew early on she was being called to a vocation, but what she didn’t know was how she would end up using music in her work.
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On train ride north, hungry migrants grab sustenance from Mexican women

LA PATRONA, Mexico – The horn sounds and the ground rumbles, setting off a mad dash by a group of women armed with food and drink for the hundreds of hungry migrants riding atop “the train of the flies.”
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Panel: Politics at a defining moment for Catholic social teaching

WASHINGTON – The current political environment provides a defining moment for the interplay of Catholic social teachings on issues Congress is facing, according to a panel of Washington-area academics in a symposium organized by the Life Cycle Institute of The Catholic University of America.
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Pope, French president discuss wide range of topics

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI welcomed French President Nicolas Sarkozy to the Vatican for talks focused on Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the role of religions in society.
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Perrella, 59, ‘lived what the Gospel preaches’

A man who tightened the fabric of the Archdiocese of Baltimore was remembered Oct. 1 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
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Catholic Review claims 15 awards

The Maryland, Delaware, D.C. Press Association’s annual awards convention April 23-24 at Westin BWI Hotel in Linthicum highlighted The Catholic Review’s excellence.
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Curley freshmen carry on St. Francis’ Christmas tradition

The two white sheep were well-behaved on the Blessed Virgin Mary’s left and right, keeping very still. That’s because they were the only lifeless characters in Archbishop Curley High School’s Dec. 9 prayer service celebrating the Nativity at Greccio, Italy.
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The church’s Marines: Maryknollers older, fewer, but still going strong

COCHABAMBA, Bolivia – Their numbers are down, their average age is up, and their last names are as likely to be Vu or Gonzalez as Kelly or O’Brien, but one thing that has not changed about Maryknoll priests and brothers in the past century is their commitment to live and work among the poor in...
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Air Force hopes scholarship draws more service chaplains

WASHINGTON – To help fill vacancies and meet the underrepresented faith needs of airmen, the Air Force is offering a scholarship for individuals who want to become service chaplains.
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New CDs from men’s schools offers comfort and joy

St. Joseph, Cockeysville, parishioner Brian Sahm thought his $15 was well spent when he bought the Calvert Hall Hallmen’s new Christmas CD.
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‘Caravan of Reconciliation’ ends in Frederick

FREDERICK – A 3,000-mile trek through 18 American cities in the cause of interfaith understanding ended at St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick Sept. 25 when a group of Christian, Muslim and Jewish clergy joined Gov. Martin J. O’Malley for a “homecoming celebration.”
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