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Girl Scout earns top medal

Fifteen-year-old Samantha Deangler earned the Spirit Alive medal from the Girl Scouts, one of the highest medals she can earn as a senior Scout.
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Love for running motivates Mount St. Joseph student

Growing up, Mount St. Joseph senior Casey Moninghoff saw his parents regularly run St. Patrick’s day and Thanksgiving day road races.
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Domingo album features songs inspired by Pope John Paul II poems

VATICAN CITY – Famed operatic tenor Placido Domingo has recorded an album of songs inspired by the poems of the late Pope John Paul II.
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Vatican discusses Saudi king’s idea to initiate dialogue

VATICAN CITY – The importance of marriage and the family and the values needed to sustain family life can be an appropriate starting point for interreligious dialogue, said an official of the Pontifical Council for the Family.
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Fourth-graders at School of the Incarnation in Gambrills relish Maryland Day

GAMBRILLS – As a third-grader last year at School of the Incarnation, Regan Zeeser watched with curiosity and a tinge of jealousy as its fourth-grade classes celebrated Maryland Day.
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Priests find extra sense of joy in Christmas

The weeks leading up to Christmas are among the busiest of the year for parish priests. There are Masses to celebrate, reconciliation services to hold, missions to give, decorations to coordinate, homilies to prepare and countless other duties to attend.
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Easter Vigil sheds light on stories of conversion

When Jared Angus offered to be the designated driver for friends headed to a nightclub, he had no idea it would lead to a conversion to Catholicism.
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Cannes Film Festival grand-prize winner ‘Of Gods and Men’ had ‘monastic adviser’ on set

WASHINGTON – “Of Gods and Men,” the Cannes Film Festival grand prize-winning feature now debuting across the country, had a “monastic adviser” on the set to help faithfully depict the lives of the French monks whose story is at the heart of the movie.
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NAACP salutes Lange Center founder

Oblate Sister Mary Claudina Sanz, who founded a center for abused and neglected girls a decade ago, has received the Thurgood Marshall Legacy Award for community service from the Baltimore branch of the NAACP.
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Pope to interact with as many New Yorkers as possible

NEW YORK – Although security will be tight and tickets limited by the size of the venues that will host Pope Benedict XVI, careful arrangements have been made to allow him to interact with as many New Yorkers as possible during the visit, said Cardinal Edward M. Egan of New York.
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Irish church leaders pledge millions more to help abuse victims

DUBLIN – Ireland’s Catholic leaders have pledged a further 10 million euros ($14.2 million) to provide support services for victims of clerical abuse and announced plans for spiritual support to people whose faith has been damaged by the abuse.
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Advice you can sink your teeth into

The following advice was compiled from mothers at St. Ignatius of Loyola, Ijamsville, who are currently going through the teething process with their children.
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