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Catholics worldwide reach out to Haiti following devastating storms

VATICAN CITY – Catholic relief agencies and parishes worldwide are responding to the devastation in Haiti, battered by four deadly hurricanes.
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Police evict ex-nuns who refused to leave convent

WARSAW, Poland – Police evicted several dozen former nuns from a Polish convent after they refused a series of court orders to leave.
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Ravens tell students to make education priority

Baltimore Ravens kicker Bill Cundiff and reserve running back Matt Lawrence visited Baltimore City’s Archbishop Borders School Nov. 29 and had a message for the student body: value your education.
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Annual Pilgrimage for the Sea Services is Oct. 5

Members of the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Merchant Marine, and the public will come together on Oct. 5 to honor St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, “patroness of the Sea Services.” The annual pilgrimage for the Sea Services is hosted by the Daughters of Charity, and supported by a committee of...
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Our Lady’s Center now rebuilt

The fire that destroyed Our Lady’s Center in Ellicott City in 2001 obviously didn’t touch the heart of the popular spiritual center and gift shop.
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Thanksgiving spirit fills Cardinal Shehan School

Jamuri Simms and Makalyn George heard the Thanksgiving call to help others and answered.
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Parishes celebrate 125, 135, 150 years

St. Anthony of Padua, which is part of the Catholic Faith Community of Gardenville, will kick off its 125th anniversary Sept. 14.
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Survey: Americans know Big Mac, not commandments

Quick. Name each of the Ten Commandments. OK. Now name the ingredients in a Big Mac hamburger sold at McDonald’s.
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From Death into Life

How providential that the Church gives us November to honor the souls of the dead – and for two reasons. First, to commend our loved ones to the mercy of God, thanking the Lord for the lives we’ve shared with them and commending them to God for their good works while they were among us.
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Catholic-Jewish group issues statement against same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON – A dialogue group made up of Catholics and Orthodox Jews has issued a statement defending the “special standing” of marriage between a man and a woman against efforts to classify same-sex unions as marriages.
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Friends, family jubilant over installation service

Sitting in the front pews of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, Homeland, friends and relatives of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said they were overwhelmed by the majesty of the ceremony.
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English, Welsh bishops: Anglican ordinariate to be started in January

LONDON – The first personal ordinariate for former Anglicans will be established in England in early January, the English and Welsh Catholic bishops announced.
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