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January 19, 2012

Youth ministers humbly acknowledge archdiocesan awards

When staff members of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry put calls out to people they wanted to honor at its annual recognition celebration April 22, the responses were universally humble.
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January 19, 2012

St. Mary’s senior driven to score in life

Chelsea Rowe has a motor that won’t quit.
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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien celebrates Mass for newly initiated

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien welcomed newly initiated Catholics to a Mass he celebrated for them at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary on the third Sunday in Easter.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic displaced in 1948 to light torch for Israeli celebrations

JERUSALEM - Yossef Mtanes said it was not an easy decision to agree to be one of the symbolic torch lighters at the April 19 opening of Israel’s 62nd Independence Day celebrations.
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January 19, 2012

BOAST failure disappoints Maryland Catholic Conference

As confetti rained down on lawmakers to mark the April 12 close of the legislative session in Annapolis, advocates for Maryland’s Catholic bishops were not celebrating.
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January 19, 2012

Father of Marine killed in Iraq fights bigoted church group

It was bad enough when two uniformed Marines approached Albert Snyder’s York, Pa., home in March of 2006 to deliver the news every military family dreads. Snyder’s 20-year-old son was killed while serving his country in Iraq.
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January 19, 2012

Teens advised to take time making decisions, seek God’s help

ANAHEIM, Calif. – It is common to see relaxed walkers at any given time and day on Harbor Boulevard near Disneyland in Anaheim, but the picture changed early March 18 during the annual Religious Education Congress Youth Day.
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January 19, 2012

As rains arrive, CRS eyes new shelter strategies for homeless Haitians

WASHINGTON – With the rainy season on the doorstep in Haiti, Isaac Boyd, an emergency shelter expert for Catholic Relief Services, and a coalition of relief agencies from around the world are trying to tackle the impossible.
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January 19, 2012

Obama signs executive order on abortion in health care legislation

WASHINGTON – In a quiet ceremony before more than a dozen members of Congress, mostly Catholics, President Barack Obama signed an executive order stipulating that no federal funds would be used to pay for abortions under the new health reform law.
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January 19, 2012

Immigration reform advocates flock to Washington, pressing for change

WASHINGTON – By bus from across the country and on foot from across town, an estimated 200,000 people flocked to the National Mall March 21 to press Congress and the president – with signs, banners, T-shirts, chants and prayers – to make good on promises to fix the immigration system.
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January 19, 2012

Second group of nuns backs bishops’ position on health care reform

WASHINGTON – A coalition of U.S. women religious representing more than 100 communities said March 17 that the position on health care reform and abortion articulated by the U.S. bishops is “the authentic teaching of the Catholic Church” and should be followed.
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January 19, 2012

Catholic Church in U.S., Canada among religious bodies gaining members

WASHINGTON – In the United States and Canada, membership numbers have gone up for the Catholic Church, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the Assemblies of God, among others, according to the 2010 edition of a yearbook published by the National Council of Churches.
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