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Archdiocese honors religious jubilarians for service

They’ve taught in schools, worked among lepers, ministered to the sick, prepared Catholics for the sacraments and toiled in mission fields across the globe. And that doesn’t even begin to include all their many varied ministries that have touched the lives of countless people.
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Move over, ‘Glee.’ Catholic show-choir invitational in its 37th year

FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Long before there was the hit television program “Glee,” Bishop Luers High School in Fort Wayne was laying the groundwork for show-choir invitationals.
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Catholics can find comfort in death, expert says

During her 30 years as a physician and pediatrician, Dr. Patricia Fosarelli has seen her fair share of death and mourning.
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Quilting group contributes a stitch at a time

In a sun-splashed room in the lower level of the rectory, the St. Charles Quilters are facing a deadline.
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Milwaukee archbishop says hard times don’t justify restricting workers’ rights

MILWAUKEE – Quoting Popes Benedict XVI and John Paul II, Milwaukee Archbishop Jerome E. Listecki issued a statement Feb. 16 that came down squarely in favor of workers’ rights in the face of efforts by Wisconsin’s new governor to restrict those rights.
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Archbishop administers first confirmations as Baltimore shepherd

FREDERICK – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien encouraged 30 confirmation candidates from St. Katharine Drexel in Frederick to take a stand for their faith during an Oct. 26 Mass.
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Pastor of three city parishes resigns

In a private meeting Nov. 8 at the Catholic Center in downtown Baltimore with Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar, Father Raymond D. Martin was asked to resign his position as pastor of the Catholic Community of South Baltimore Nov. 8 because of violations of archdiocesan pol¬icy and canon law.
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Orioles’ Ernie Tyler, St. Ignatius parishioner, dies

Ernie Tyler was the Iron Man before Cal Ripken Jr. The Orioles longtime umpire attendant, who worked 3,819 consecutive home games at Memorial Stadium and Oriole Park at Camden Yards between 1960 and 2007, died at the age of 86 Feb. 11.
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The Best Kept Secret in the Church

In mid-October my wife Marilyn and I attended our second week-long course on Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB). Why would a couple married for 36 years, with four adult children, and no academic background in theology spend so much money, time, and energy learning about such an esoteric subject?
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Confession scares some

Waverly resident Diane Davis has a confession to make. She hasn’t been in nearly 30 years.
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Tucson shooting spree prompts renewed debate on gun-control issue in US

DETROIT – Avid outdoorsman and hunter Father Joe Classen, associate pastor at Holy Spirit Parish in Maryland Heights, Mo., has a permit to carry a concealed weapon.
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St. Joseph team heads to Tanzania

Malaria is among the maladies adversely affecting the quality of life in Tanzania.
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