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Shroud exposition closes with more than 2 million pilgrims

VATICAN CITY – With the Shroud of Turin now carefully put away, church officials said that more than 2 million pilgrims had come to venerate the linen cloth in the six weeks it was on display.
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100-year-old Rosedale parishioner still goes to work every day

Joseph Kaminski is only a few days away from turning 100, but he has no plans of giving up his day job.
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Aquilla keeps busy at Mount Carmel

It’s a rare day when Kelly Aquilla cannot be found somewhere on the campus Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex.
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100-year-old Rosedale parishioner still goes to work every day

Joseph Kaminski is only a few days away from turning 100, but he has no plans of giving up his day job.
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Thai army, protesters foil bid to rescue women, children from conflict

BANGKOK – Anti-government protesters and the Thai army prevented a Catholic-run charity and other nongovernmental organizations from rescuing women and children trapped within a commercial district of central Bangkok as clashes between the two sides escalated.
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Brother Earl Vincent Kent, S.S.J.

A funeral Mass for Brother Earl Vincent Kent, S.S.J., will be offered May 28 at St. Francis Xavier, Baltimore. Brother Earl, who chronicled Josephite life through his photography and served as an associate at St. Francis Xavier and St. Veronica, Cherry Hill, died May 22 following a long illness at St. Joseph Manor, where he...
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Williamsport parishioner plans pilgrimages far and near

While attending a friend’s funeral at St. Joseph’s Passionist Monastery a few years ago, Ron Doub was struck by the beauty of the historic Irvington church.
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U.S. born Passionist priest named bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has named Father Neil Tiedemann, a Brooklyn-born member of the provincial council for the Passionist order, as bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica.
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St. Ambrose chosen for New American Academy model

As principal of St. Ambrose Catholic School, Pamela Sanders is ready to guide her institution into a new chapter.
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Sarah’s Hope looks for location

St. Vincent de Paul of Baltimore’s Sarah’s Hope, a 24-hour shelter and resource center serving homeless families and single women, will no longer operate from the Eastern Family Resource Center in Rosedale, effective June 30.
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Immigrant church must lead the way on immigration reform, cardinal says

NEW YORK – Catholic leaders and universities should “come out of the shadows” and take a significant role in educating those who are ambivalent or undecided about the issue of comprehensive immigration reform, according to Cardinal Roger M. Mahony of Los Angeles.
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Priests newly ordained for Chicago Archdiocese are all foreign-born

CHICAGO – None of the 11 new priests the Archdiocese of Chicago ordained May 17 were born in the archdiocese, or even in the United States.
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