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“While Rome Burns …”

“No one has to have an abortion. To all of those in crisis pregnancies, I pledge our support and our financial help. Come to the Catholic Church. Let us walk with you through your time of trouble. Let us help you affirm life. Let us help you find a new life with your child, or...
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St. Martin’s Home resident turns 100

A 35-year resident of St. Martin’s Home for the Aged, Catonsville, which is run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, turned 100 years old. Imelda Smith commemorated the milestone birthday with the Little Sisters, residents, staff and friends in the St. Martin's Home auditorium.
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Churches working to ensure everyone is counted in 2010 US census

WASHINGTON – Churches have a crucial role to play in ensuring that everyone is counted on Census Day 2010, April 1.
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Communion offers spiritual strength

For years, Horace Wisniewski faithfully brought Holy Communion to the sick and dying in Dundalk. But after a heart attack slowed him down about a year ago, the roles changed. Now the 90-year-old extraordinary minister of Holy Communion from Sacred Heart of Mary, Graceland Park, relies on others to bring the Eucharist to him.
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Bishops respond to Rep. Kennedy’s criticism of health care stance

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., about the U.S. bishops’ role in the health reform debate.
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Chinese priests work around disruptions to assess quake damage

CHENGDU, China – Chinese priests had to work around disrupted telephone systems and damaged roads as they tried to assess the damage from the May 12 earthquake centered under Sichuan province.
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Bishop criticizes ‘slavishly literal’ English translation of missal

WASHINGTON – Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ liturgy committee, sharply criticized what he called the “slavishly literal” translation into English of the new Roman Missal from the original Latin.
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First president of National Catholic Bioethics Center dies at 87

WASHINGTON – A funeral Mass for the founding president of the National Catholic Bioethics Center was celebrated May 5 at Holy Rosary Church in Houston.
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Loyola grad ready to become Paulist priest

Tom Gibbons’ journey into the Paulist religious community began with a broken video camera.
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Edward Whitesell to be ordained a permanent deacon

Edward Whitesell calls it “the fulfillment of a dream.” At the same time Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien ordains three men to the transitional diaconate during a May 10 liturgy at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, the archbishop will also ordain Mr. Whitesell a permanent...
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Mass will honor retired priests

Father Salvatore Livigni retired from active ministry four years ago, but you’d never know it from his schedule.
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Church must address role of Internet in identity, community

VATICAN CITY – The Catholic Church and particularly its social teaching must begin to grapple with the potential and the problems posed by the Internet, particularly when dealing with questions about personal identity, community involvement and solidarity, several social scientists said.
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