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January 19, 2012

Canadian bishop joins others seeking dialogue over refugee treatment

OTTAWA – The president of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops has joined other faith leaders in requesting a dialogue with the prime minister over the treatment of refugees.
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January 19, 2012

Cool under pressure: Papal guards handle many pilgrims discreetly

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s security guards are known for composure under pressure, and they showed it when a deranged German tried to jump onto the pope’s jeep at a general audience. Within seconds, 11 Vatican plainclothes agents – Swiss Guards and policemen – subdued the 27-year-old man and pinned him to the ground....
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January 19, 2012

Mercy doctor has walked knee injury path

A twist of fate – and a knee – brought Dr. Kamala Littleton to the field of orthopedic surgery.
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January 19, 2012

Detroit Archdiocese: Paroled Kevorkian not a celebrity but a killer

DETROIT – An official of the Detroit Archdiocese denounced the media “hype” surrounding the parole of Jack Kevorkian, saying the assisted suicide proponent was being “treated as a celebrity parolee instead of the convicted murder he is.” Kevorkian, a former pathologist whose medical license was suspended in 1991, left the Lakeland Correctional Facility in Coldwater...
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January 19, 2012

City Council advances bill targeting pregnancy centers

A bill that would impose new requirements on pro-life pregnancy centers in the city took a step closer to becoming law when the Baltimore City Council passed the measure 12-3 in a preliminary vote Nov. 16. Bill 09-0406 now faces a final vote after Thanksgiving and, if approved, will head to Mayor Sheila Dixon.
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January 19, 2012

Bishop Dudick of Byzantine diocese dies

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN, Pa. – Retired Bishop Michael J. Dudick of the Byzantine Diocese of Passaic, N.J., died May 30 at the Rest Haven nursing facility in Schuylkill Haven. He was 91. He had previously been in residence at Holy Annunciation Monastery in Sugarloaf. Prior to his retirement in 1995, he had been the bishop of...
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January 19, 2012

Lawyers ask court: Is life in prison for teen like a death sentence?

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court is weighing whether to follow a ban on capital punishment for minor offenders with a prohibition or limits on sentencing teenagers to life in prison without parole.
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January 19, 2012

Hundreds of clubs keep seniors on the go

When JoAnn Huebler and her family found a remote control boat named “Poppy” they knew it would make a perfect gift for her father, Joe Danneman, because his five grandchildren call him “Poppy.” “He loves it,” she said of her father, a former Navy man and a Catholic who serves as usher in the nondenominational...
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January 19, 2012

President leads nation in mourning Fort Hood victims

FORT HOOD, Texas - The memory of the 13 victims killed Nov. 5 inside Fort Hood “will be honored in the places they lived and by the people they touched,” President Barack Obama said at a Nov. 10 memorial at the fort, the Army's largest U.S. base.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic Charities dedicates $15 million resource center

As a bagpiper played “Amazing Grace” in the halls of the new Our Daily Bread Employment Center May 24, hundreds of citizens followed the musician like the Pied Piper to tour Baltimore’s first full-service resource center for the poor. The symbolic jaunt through the $15 million, 52,000-square-foot facility followed a lavish dedication ceremony of the...
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January 19, 2012

Priest’s line of wines raises awareness of saints, funds for charity

MILWAUKEE – A holy water font at each door, candles, home altars, crucifixes in every room, statues and magnificent paintings of saints permeated Father Dominic Roscioli’s Kenosha home when he was a little boy.
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January 19, 2012

Proud 74-year-old college graduate wants to set example

Northwood resident Barbara Williams discovered it was possible for a 74-year-old black woman to become a college graduate when she received her bachelor’s degree May 20, and now she wants to inform the youth of her race the only obstacle in their way of educational achievement is complacency. Armed with a hard-earned diploma from Morgan...
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