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Father Martin’s Ashley helps people to heal with dignity

The sun rises over the Chesapeake Bay, offering hopeful rays each morning to patients meditating on the lawn by the chapel at Father Martin’s Ashley.
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Bomb served purpose

Re Tony Magliano’s column (CR, Aug. 5), granted, the Japanese war machine was stressed … so why was Japan still up for a fight? For the most part the Japanese army on the home islands and in China was still very much intact. As Americans it was hard for us to comprehend why this enemy...
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Catholic high schools celebrate Class of 2008

In this special section of The Catholic Review, we salute the 2,620 graduating seniors of 21 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Congratulations to the Class of 2008!
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Actress Patricia Neal dies; she overcame strokes, family adversity

EDGARTOWN, Mass.–- Actress Patricia Neal, who won an Oscar for best actress for her starring role as a housekeeper opposite Paul Newman in the 1963 film “Hud,” died Aug. 8 of lung cancer. She was 84.
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Catholic High student excels in, out of the classroom

Guided by her faith and passion for life, The Catholic High School of Baltimore senior Suzanne Remeikis has succeeded both inside and outside of the classroom.
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‘Collaborative model’ is wave of future for school governance

When the academic year kicks off this fall, approximately six Catholic schools will be operating as “archdiocesan collaborative schools” – a new administrative model that archdiocesan leaders see as the wave of the future.
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Junior, Pisanic are multi champs

Jerome Junior, a recent graduate of Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore, and Lindsay Pisanic, a rising junior at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville, won the only decathlon and heptathlon championships held for high school students in Maryland.
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Couple’s love of motorcycles, Catholic faith come together in ministry

BROKEN ARROW, Okla. – You may see them riding their motorcycles at March for Life rallies, motorcycle rallies, Knights of Columbus and Girl Scout meetings. They look like bikers, but their goal is far different.
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Confirmation: A Sacrament of Initiation

A singular joy of ministry as bishop is the opportunity to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation. Here the bishop is the immediate instrument God uses to pour out His Spirit upon His people as He did with tongues of fire on the disciples at Pentecost. In the sacrament, God offers the gift of the Spirit...
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Q and A: Edmondson says schools are excited about future

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien appointed Barbara Edmondson to the role of interim superintendent of Catholic schools in July. The longtime principal of School of the Incarnation in Gambrills shared her thoughts about her new role with The Catholic Review.
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Cecils, Mount St. Joe, Xaverian brothers share three centuries of history

The saga began in the mid 1880s, when a teenage boy from Southern Maryland boarded a steamboat in St. Mary’s City, ventured up the Chesapeake Bay, disembarked in Baltimore and made his way a few miles west, to Irvington and a fledgling school.
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Easy access to drugs trivializes abortion, says Vatican official

VATICAN CITY – Promoting easy access to RU-486 and other drugs that induce abortion risks trivializing the termination of a pregnancy, said the president of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
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