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Mercy program helps homeless find housing

It’s not strictly health care but it’s certainly a form of caring. The Mercy Supportive Housing Program at Mercy Medical Center, Baltimore, helps homeless families obtain housing and then works with them for six months after they move in to make sure they don’t end up back on the streets.
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Living in moderation brings about just global development

VATICAN CITY – The only way to bring about just and sustainable development in the world is to live in moderation and fix the vast inequities in the distribution of wealth, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Archbishop O’Brien celebrates Mass for newly initiated

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien welcomed newly initiated Catholics to a Mass he celebrated for them at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the third Sunday in Easter.
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Superior says new Jesuit leader will show vision of future

VATICAN CITY – As the Jesuits choose a new superior general, they will be emphasizing their vision for the future, said Father Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, who has led the Society of Jesus since 1983.
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Catholic displaced in 1948 to light torch for Israeli celebrations

JERUSALEM - Yossef Mtanes said it was not an easy decision to agree to be one of the symbolic torch lighters at the April 19 opening of Israel’s 62nd Independence Day celebrations.
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Pope says Christians thank God for blessings in 2007

VATICAN CITY – Marking the end of a year, Christians turn to God who is eternal, thanking him for the blessings he has given and asking for his help and protection, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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BOAST failure disappoints Maryland Catholic Conference

As confetti rained down on lawmakers to mark the April 12 close of the legislative session in Annapolis, advocates for Maryland’s Catholic bishops were not celebrating.
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Trappists expand casket factory due to increased demand

PEOSTA, Iowa – For the craftsmen and artisans at New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, a relatively new ministry has expanded into a new state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot factory, almost five times larger than their previous facility.
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Father of Marine killed in Iraq fights bigoted church group

It was bad enough when two uniformed Marines approached Albert Snyder’s York, Pa., home in March of 2006 to deliver the news every military family dreads. Snyder’s 20-year-old son was killed while serving his country in Iraq.
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Jesuit calls his vocation ‘ground crew’ of the Church

Brother Jim Horan, S.J., likens likens his vocation as a Jesuit brother to the ground crew of an airline fleet.
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Teens advised to take time making decisions, seek God’s help

ANAHEIM, Calif. – It is common to see relaxed walkers at any given time and day on Harbor Boulevard near Disneyland in Anaheim, but the picture changed early March 18 during the annual Religious Education Congress Youth Day.
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