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Warming hearts, hearth at St. Alphonsus

The first dinner Gladys Kemp made for the priests at St. Alphonsus Rodriguez in Woodstock didn’t turn out too well – she burned the meal.
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Cathedral of Mary Our Queen celebrates 50 years

Fifty years to the day that Archbishop Francis P. Keough dedicated the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, friends and parishioners of the Homeland landmark gathered Nov. 15 to celebrate its golden jubilee.
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Restoration of historic chapel brings new life to St. Athanasius

Mason work that has stood since the 19th century is enhanced by orange walls and a light blue vaulted ceiling that are set off by double crown molding.
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Catholic Campaign for Human Development collection is Nov. 21 and 22

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is asking Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore to help support the poor and vulnerable by donating to the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD).
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The name game

In late April and early May, the blogosphere was in an uproar over two documents circulated by the National Counterterrorism Center, which is charged with strategic coordination among federal agencies of the war against terrorism. “The Words That Work” and “Terminology to Define the Terrorists” urged government officials and U.S. diplomats to avoid “Islamism” and...
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Gabriel Network to add its first maternity home in the city

Pregnant women in Baltimore who need support in bringing their babies to term will find help next year when the Gabriel Network opens a new maternity home in West Baltimore.
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Soup kitchens as political activism: What’s appropriate for whom?

WASHINGTON – Theologian Georgia Masters Keightley believes the way Catholics live out their faith obligations to social activism ought first to be by creating neighborhood food pantries and participating in town council elections.
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Cardinal Rode defends apostolic visitation of US nuns

VATICAN CITY - Cardinal Franc Rode, head of the Vatican office overseeing religious orders, said he requested an apostolic visitation of women's religious orders in the United States to help the sisters and to respond to concerns for their welfare.
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Kansas tornado victims say faith got them through storm, aftermath

CHAPMAN, Kan. – Killer tornadoes that ripped through northern Kansas June 11 reduced the oldest Catholic church in the Diocese of Salina to rubble, caused considerable damage to another parish and is blamed for the deaths of two Kansans.
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Pope says November feasts highlight tie between living, dead

VATICAN CITY – Underlining people’s connection with those who have gone before them, the annual commemorations of All Saints and All Souls remind Christians that “we are never alone,” Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Sister Mary Alice Ashton, O.S.F.

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Alice Ashton, O.S.F. (formerly Sister Robert Ann), was offered June 19 at St. Anthony of Padua and Holy Redeemer Cemetery, Baltimore. Monsignor Joseph L. Luca, pastor of St. Louis, Clarksville, officiated.
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Religious freedoms still ‘widely violated,’ says Vatican’s UN nuncio

UNITED NATIONS – The right to religious freedom “continues to be widely violated,” the Vatican’s nuncio to the United Nations told a U.N. committee Oct. 21.
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