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Why we march!

Every Jan. 22 for the last 35 years, pro-life Americans from all over the country and pro-life representatives from all over the world have been coming in massive numbers to the March for Life in Washington, D.C.
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Catholic Worker Movement marks 75th anniversary without fanfare

WASHINGTON – Seventy-fifth anniversary or not, lunch still must be served at the New York Catholic Worker’s Maryhouse. Hungry people will be waiting, as they are every Ms. Day.
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Bishops, Knights urged to take action to help storm victims in South

WASHINGTON – In an effort to help Southern dioceses recover from the devastating tornados of late April, the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has approved a national relief collection and Knights of Columbus members in Alabama have been asked to be a visible presence in the devastated areas.
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100-day campaign will remind Obama of pledge to close Guantanamo

WASHINGTON – Closure of the military prison at the U.S. Army base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will be getting renewed attention during a 100-day campaign designed to hold President-elect Barack Obama to his campaign pledge to close the compound.
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Archbishop Curley High School receives $1 million capital campaign gift

To kick off Archbishop Curley High School’s capital campaign, Father Michael Martin, O.F.M. Conv., stepped up to the microphone on April 25 to tell a story about his grandfather’s vision.
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Reflecting on 40 years of priesthood

Forty is a number of biblical significance – Jesus spent 40 days in the desert and for 40 years the people of Israel wandered in the desert.
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Priest feels frustration, sees hope in villages high in Peru’s Andes

PAMPAROMAS, Peru – Father David Johnson viewed the barren mountains towering over his parish with a mixture of sadness, frustration and hope.
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Vatican official calls liturgical renewal ‘irreversible path’

VATICAN CITY – Liturgical renewal launched by the Second Vatican Council is an “irreversible path” and has not been affected by Pope Benedict XVI’s concession on wider use of the Tridentine rite, a Vatican official said.
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Pope Benedict beatifies Pope John Paul ‘because of his faith’

VATICAN CITY - “John Paul II is blessed because of his faith - a strong, generous and apostolic faith,” Pope Benedict XVI said May 1 just minutes after formally beatifying his predecessor.
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Jan. 1 is the feast of Mary, Mother of God

January 1 marks the feast of the Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God. The holy day of obligation falls on a Thursday this year. According to the Dictionary of the Liturgy, “this feast recognized Mary as the physical parent of Christ, the God-Man, defined at the Council of Ephesus in the fifth century.
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Shuman and Rakosky push for excellence

A pair of lions are making their mark on the field events in the IAAM B Conference for track and field this season.
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Inspiring story rescues man from darkest night

While venting about the excruciating pain he had been experiencing from being trampled by a horse at work, Luis realized that the pain throughout his body and the paralysis of his right hand may be permanent. How could he work? How would his wife and two daughters in Guatemala survive? Luis is uninsured and his...
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