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IND Indians relentless in overtime victory

The Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, faced its toughest challenge of the season as the sun began to set on the IAAM C Conference field hockey championship game held on Nov. 4 at The Bryn Mawr School.
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Laity has its say in parish planning process

Make better use of social media to spread good news that is millennia old.
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Measures promoting human dignity top concern for Catholic advocates

WASHINGTON – Promoting Catholic social teaching to politicians at the White House and in Congress is like riding a teeter-totter: first up and then down. The direction depends on the issue being debated and the party in power.
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Bush to nominate Glendon as ambassador to Vatican

WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush will nominate Mary Ann Glendon, a U.S. law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, as the new U.S. ambassador to the Vatican.
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Youthful supreme knight of Peter Claver sees God’s hand leading him

WASHINGTON – When Fredron DeKarlos Blackmon was elected to lead the Knights of Peter Claver last September, it was a natural progression of his involvement as a professional lay Catholic.
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MCC concerned about bill that could promote suicide

After receiving a terminal diagnosis, the last thing someone needs is counseling from groups that promote suicide, Nancy Paltell said.
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Abuse reports in public schools are wake-up call

WASHINGTON – A recent series by The Associated Press illustrating the “widespread” extent of sexual abuse in the nation’s public schools and the failure of those in authority to stop it is a serious wake-up call for the nation say some officials.
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‘Our Lady of the Mountains’ formed, Monsignor Hannon to take Catholic Center post

A new parish is forming in Western Maryland. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien announced June 12 that he has accepted the recommendation of the Mountain Maryland Regional Planning Commission to unite the five existing Cumberland-area parishes into one faith community with a single pastoral staff, effective July 1.
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Year of St. Paul past halfway point

When Sister Mary Josephine Fritz entered the postulancy program as a Good Shepherd Sister 70 years ago, she asked her superior if she could take Paul as her religious name. The young postulant had always dreamed of becoming a missionary like St. Paul and hoped to claim the saint as her special patron.
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Franciscans to repair Nazareth’s Annunciation grotto

JERUSALEM – The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, which coordinates Christian pilgrimage sites, will close the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation for four months for conservation work on the grotto’s rock.
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On world stage and behind closed doors, Vatican works diplomatic levers

VATICAN CITY – Vatican City is the world’s smallest state, but it’s still considered a diplomatic nerve center, a place where the universal church meets global politics.
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Sri Lankan bishop joins hunger strike urging protection of civilians

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka – Bishop Thomas Savundaranayagam of the war-torn Diocese of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka has joined 300 Christian and Hindu hunger strikers urging action to protect civilians caught in the ethnic conflict.
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