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January 19, 2012

‘Empty Bowls’ fundraiser to aid homeless citizens

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore is gearing up for its annual fundraiser “Empty Bowls” March 15 to help operate its two facilities that aid the homeless.

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January 19, 2012

Parish ‘resurrects’ diseased tree by making crosses from its wood

READING, Pa. – St. Margaret Parish in Reading long enjoyed the shade of its 125-year-old giant elm tree.

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January 19, 2012

First Things founder Father Richard John Neuhaus dies from cancer

WASHINGTON – Father Richard John Neuhaus, a former Lutheran minister who became a Catholic priest and a staunch defender of church teaching on abortion and other life issues, died Jan. 8. He was 72.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien tours Partners in Excellence schools

Three-fourths of Irvetta Lewis’ third-grade class at St. Katharine, Baltimore, raised their hands when asked if they had been nervous while reciting their greeting in unison to Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien on his first stop of a three-school tour Feb. 26. Yet six eighth-grade student ambassadors, sitting with the archbishop in casual conversation at the...

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January 19, 2012

Perseverance, cooperation key for relocating Haitians from camps

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – It took more than a year, but Gregoire Jean has his wife and five kids back at home.

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January 19, 2012

PEOPLE, PLACES, THINGS

Students from St. Thomas Aquinas School in Hampden visited the School Sisters of Notre Dame at Villa Assumpta Maria Health Care Center, Baltimore, Dec. 12.

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January 19, 2012

Leaders say interfaith effort to end global poverty growing

SAN FRANCISCO – Eliminating much of the world’s worst poverty within a decade would become a principle of U.S. foreign policy for the first time under a Catholic-led legislative push gathering force with a growing interfaith alliance.

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January 19, 2012

Canadian bishop pledges healing in diocese rocked by child porn charges

ANTIGONISH, Nova Scotia – Antigonish Bishop Brian Dunn recommitted himself to working to bring healing, reconciliation and reform to the diocese after his predecessor pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography for the purpose of importation.

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January 19, 2012

New Hampshire couple perplexed by Vatican views on embryo adoption

WASHINGTON – As committed Catholics, Timothy and Dawn Smith respect Vatican pronouncements, but recent statements about frozen embryo adoption from church officials have bewildered the Fitzwilliam, N.H., parents of three children who came into the world through this process.

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January 19, 2012

Local boys impart Easter wisdom

Though Catholics come together Easter Sunday to celebrate the resurrection of Christ, children are treated to the spoils of a cotton-tailed rabbit and the promise of spring’s splendor.

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January 19, 2012

At vigil, young and old remember Pope John Paul as spiritual model

ROME – With songs, videos, testimonials and prayers, Catholics of every age and many countries gathered in Rome to remember Pope John Paul II on the eve of his beatification.

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January 19, 2012

Cancer claims life of Benedictine Brother Dietrich Reinhart, 59

COLLEGEVILLE, Minn. – Two months after resigning as president of St. John’s University so he could focus on his treatment of malignant melanoma, Benedictine Brother Dietrich Reinhart died Dec. 29 at age 59.

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