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Diocese offers $95 million plan to settle sex abuse cases

SAN DIEGO – In a bankruptcy reorganization plan filed March 28, the San Diego Diocese proposed a $95 million pool to compensate 143 people who claim childhood sexual abuse by priests. Under the proposal 83 victims who say they were forced to have sexual intercourse could receive up to $800,000 each. Forty-four who claim they...
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Colorado Springs Diocese supports public school ban on students wearing rosaries

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – The Diocese of Colorado Springs said it “does not oppose” a decision by some local public schools to ban rosaries from being worn as an accessory on top of students’ clothing.
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Redemptorist returns home to pastor Highlandtown parish

Father Gerard Knapp, C.Ss.R., required little briefing when he arrived as the new pastor at Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.
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Community spirit at St. Benedict inspires couple

After six years of retirement in Florida, Dave and Phyllis Gemmell returned to Catonsville in 2002 to be closer to their children and grandchildren, and wound up as devoted volunteers for their adopted parish, St. Benedict in Baltimore. The couple says the community spirit in their parish is so strong, it inspires them to help...
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Panel discusses ways to help pregnant couples facing dire diagnoses

WASHINGTON – When parents receive a prenatal diagnosis that their unborn child has a disability or a potentially lethal illness, they need the support of the church and the community more than ever, said a panel of medical and pastoral experts and several parents who have experienced that sad scenario.
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Father Janaites dies at 79

Father Stanley J. Janaites, a longtime priest who inspired others to become more involved in church ministry, died Aug. 5 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson. He was 79. Funeral arrangements were still pending as The Catholic Review went to press.
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Local artist to sign basilica painting

Baltimore artist Paul DeRemigis Jr. will be signing his newest original painting, a rendering of the restored Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, April 12.
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New plan calls for closing weakest schools in New York, changing governance model

NEW YORK – A strategic plan for the elementary schools of the Archdiocese of New York will close underperforming schools to reduce growing deficits, channel funds from the sale or rental of shuttered properties to an education fund and replace the traditional parish governance model with a regional structure.
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Volunteers walk cross-country to spread pro-life message

WASHINGTON – When school ended for the summer break in May, most students went home and started their vacation. But that was not the case for Carlos Rivas and about 30 others.
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Pope names three monsignors for Baltimore

Pope Benedict XVI has recognized the exemplary ministry of three priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore by conferring on them the honorary title of monsignor. Cardinal William H. Keeler made the surprise announcement during a March 22 dinner at his Charles Street residence with the new monsignors –
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Portland organization loses CCHD grant over Planned Parenthood link

PORTLAND, Ore. – The Archdiocese of Portland earlier this year asked a local homeless advocacy newspaper to end its link to an abortion provider to continue receiving grants from a Catholic agency.
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Speaker says bold spirituality needed to fight ‘culture of silence’

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – A Mercy sister used Gospel stories to help illustrate how to develop a spirituality she said is needed to boldly speak out against a “culture of silence” that allows oppression and gender-based violence.
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