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St. Frances job fair draws record crowd

They started showing up outside St. Frances Academy at 6:15 a.m. on a frigid winter morning – and kept coming throughout the day, even as snow and ice turned the pavements and roads into virtual skating rinks.
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Sailors poised for another championship run

Players tend to take their lead from the coach. At least that’s the way Duane Verderaime sees it. “Every coach has a different approach,” said Verderaime, head field hockey coach for Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville.
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Former Broadway set builder sculpts biblical scenes with soap as medium

WATERBURY, Conn. - During his 27 years building Broadway and movie sets, Ron Daisomont learned how to work with wood, metal and a variety of other materials. But with tight deadlines, patience was not his strong suit.
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New Catholic Charities Web page examines poverty-racism connection

WASHINGTON – As part of its continuing nationwide campaign to cut poverty in half by 2020, Catholic Charities USA is ramping up efforts to help people understand the ties between poverty and racism.
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Catholic center works to clean up sports

A Catholic sports association has partnered with a once-scandal-plagued Italian soccer team in an effort to help clean up sports.
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Archbishop O’Brien encourages St. Michael, Fells Point, amidst transition

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien celebrated Masses in English and Spanish at St. Michael parish in Fells Point May 22, marking the first time he has personally addressed the community since it was announced in February that the parish would move to Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown.
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In praise of George W. Bush

The following is best appreciated if read aloud in the best Irish accent you can manage:
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Initiative alerts women to sneaky nature of heart disease

Women shop pink to support breast cancer research but don’t realize that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women.
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New Jersey woman credits Mercy stem cell use for new lease on life

Driving on a highway spotted with black ice near her home in Egg Harbor City, N.J., on Jan. 18, 2009, Susan Cossabone’s car was smashed into by an out-of-control Hamilton Township police car, nearly killing her.
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General Assembly opens session

Mary Ellen Russell is in for a baptism by fire in her inaugural year as executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.
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Mass in the Grass to draw crowd

It’s not as large as Woodstock, but Mass in the Grass will feature a concert in a field and it promises to be plenty big.
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Archbishop O’Brien ordains 14 permanent deacons

Although more than 1,300 people filled the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen May 14, only the occasional click and whir of a camera could be heard as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien solemnly laid his hands on 14 men who knelt in front of him. Silently conferring the Holy Spirit, the archbishop ordained the white-robed figures...
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