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Marriage not just a private matter, bishops say in proposed pastoral

WASHINGTON – Hoping to reverse what they call “a disturbing trend” toward viewing marriage as “a mostly private matter” with personal satisfaction as its only goal, the U.S. Catholic bishops will debate and vote on a 57-page pastoral letter on marriage at their Nov. 16-19 meeting in Baltimore.
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Deacons’ wives supportive of ministry

Severna Park resident Keith Chase is well aware he has an understanding and supportive wife. After all, he is an ordained deacon, and he has a demanding job with a Baltimore financial firm, four children under the age of 9 and a foreign-exchange student living with his family.
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Maryvale junior doesn’t settle for average

Colin Devlin makes the same pledge to all his varsity soccer players at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville: if they make their college soccer team, he’ll be at their first game to watch them play.
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Oklahomans say electric power a blessing after ice storm

TULSA, Okla. – When a businessman donated a generator to the Church of the Madalene Dec. 15, grateful parishioners responded in kind, preparing a big spaghetti dinner and going door to door in their power-starved midtown Tulsa neighborhood to invite people to come for a hot meal.
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Catholics, Muslims appeal for release of Irish priest in Philippines

PAGADIAN, Philippines – Catholic and Muslim leaders in the southern Philippines have appealed to kidnappers to release Irish Columban Father Michael Sinnott.
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Catholics remember Charles G. Tildon Jr.

Charles G. Tildon Jr., who served the church in a variety of capacities and received the papal honor of being named to the Knights of St. Gregory the Great, died Dec. 16 of cancer. He was 81.
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Washington Archdiocese opposes bill to legalize same-sex marriage

WASHINGTON – A bill introduced by a member of the District of Columbia City Council Oct. 6 to allow same-sex marriages to be performed in the district could “result in a loss of religious liberty” for its residents, the Archdiocese of Washington warned in a statement opposing the bill.
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Biblical diary by Chinese Catholics goes into second print

MACAU – A biblical diary with scriptural reflections by Chinese Catholics went into its second print run in less than a month.
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White Mass to be held Oct. 18

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate the annual White Mass for the Baltimore Guild of the Catholic Medical Association Oct. 18 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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CRS staffers overcome obstacles to help Sri Lanka

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Catholic Relief Services’ staffers have to overcome political obstacles as they try to help the people of Sri Lanka rebuild three years after a tsunami hit, said a CRS official.
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Retired Nova Scotia bishop turns himself in to face child porn charges

OTTAWA – Retired Bishop Raymond J. Lahey of Antigonish, Nova Scotia, turned himself in to Ottawa police Oct. 1 to face charges of possession of and importing child pornography.
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St. Vincent’s Center helps one girl gain a family

Ever since she was a baby, her mother beat her. Involved with drugs, her mother would leave her unattended, even as an infant and toddler. Sometimes she took the child to bars. She was just 9 when her mother was imprisoned for beating her. Her biological father was dead.
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