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Mercy levels competition and posts a 7-1 record

The Mercy Magic are putting up some incredible numbers this season. Out to a remarkable 7-1, IAAM A Conference (Y Division) start, 12-2 overall, (as of Jan. 8) the Magic basketball team is showing signs of being in the hunt for the magical title, just six short weeks away.
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Catholics hail European court ruling on patents derived from embryos

LONDON – A leading Catholic bioethical institute has welcomed the decision of a European court to ban the patenting of any medical treatment derived from destructive experiments on human embryos.
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Lady Cavs cheerleaders come in first

A perfect score is 300 points. The Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, cheerleading team scored 225 in the Maryland State Cheerleading competition on Jan. 5 at 1st Mariner Arena, Baltimore, and for the fifth year in a row, captured first place in the Varsity Parochial School division.
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Touched by universal church, WYD pilgrims reunite with purpose

CATONSVILLE – The crowd was markedly different in size, but the passion was just as fervent.
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Georgia has first Catholic school to offer elementary IB program

DULUTH, Ga. – Notre Dame Academy, a Marist-sponsored school in Duluth, recently became the first Catholic elementary school in the United States to be accredited to teach the International Baccalaureate primary years program designed for children 3 to 12 years old.
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Shanghai bishop asks Catholics to intensify evangelization

SHANGHAI, China – Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian of Shanghai has asked his flock to intensify evangelization efforts to mark this year’s 400th anniversary of the introduction of Catholicism to Shanghai.
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Telecom tycoon rescues $52 million plaza next to Mexican basilica

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the new Plaza Mariana Oct. 12 adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but credit for rescuing the project from budgetary and political problems went to the world’s richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.
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Chicago detainees to receive pastoral care while on deportation buses

CHICAGO – Mercy Sisters Jo Ann Persch, 74, and Pat Murphy, 80, were prepared to go to jail April 30.
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Pope, marking new year, reiterates support for family

VATICAN CITY – Ushering in the new year, Pope Benedict XVI said attempts to weaken the traditional family inevitably undermine social harmony and world peace.
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Pope: Silence, solitude needed in ‘agitated, sometimes frantic’ world

VATICAN CITY – Endless news, noise and crowds have made people afraid of silence and solitude, which are essential for finding God’s love and love for others, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Priest came out of retirement to help meatpacking plant workers

POSTVILLE, Iowa – Father Paul Ouderkirk has a nice house in northeastern Iowa where he was living in comfortable retirement, overseeing the banks of, as he calls it, “the mighty Missi-Sloppy.”
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