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Holy Name members of the year honored at Oriole Park

Before the first pitch was thrown at Oriole Park Aug. 24, a Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, student and a parishioner of St. Joseph, Taneytown, were honored during the Archdiocesan Holy Name Union Baseball Game at Camden Yards.
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Inspiring story rescues man from darkest night

While venting about the excruciating pain he had been experiencing from being trampled by a horse at work, Luis realized that the pain throughout his body and the paralysis of his right hand may be permanent. How could he work? How would his wife and two daughters in Guatemala survive? Luis is uninsured and his...
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Blair praised for his Yale seminar examining globalization, religion

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – Tony Blair has won praise – even from those who have publicly disagreed with him on the Iraq War – for a seminar about the interplay between globalization and religious faith that he just finished teaching this semester at Yale University.
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Wisconsin priest joins caravan to Cuba

MILWAUKEE – In his 87 years, many memories have formed in Jesuit Father Bill Brennan’s mind.
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Personal ordinariate for former Anglicans to reach nearly 1,000

LONDON – The first personal ordinariate created for former Anglicans who decided to enter the Catholic Church will reach almost 1,000 by the end of the Easter Vigil.
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Bishops say Zimbabwean president must be forced to step down

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe must be forced to step down, said the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference.
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Bishops might meet to discuss Chavez proposal

CARACAS, Venezuela – Cardinal Jorge Urosa Savino of Caracas said the Venezuelan bishops’ conference might have a special meeting to discuss Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s proposed constitutional reform. The proposal “concerns the life of the Venezuelan people, of the Catholics of Venezuela and the rights of everybody,” he said. The cardinal said Venezuelan Catholics should...
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Companions on the road to Easter

ROME – For the past six weeks, I’ve had the privilege of participating in the station church pilgrimage of Lent, a Roman tradition that dates back to Christian antiquity. From at least the early fourth century, the pope celebrated Mass during Lent with his clergy and the Roman Christian community at a designated “station” church....
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Support system, faith lift face of St. Agnes campaign

Beth Hazel’s cause requires urgency that goes beyond a single month’s focus.
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Shortage of management could hamper nonprofits

WASHINGTON – Nonprofit organizations will face a serious shortage of senior leaders in the next decade unless efforts are made now to recruit and retain outstanding managers, a consultant to nonprofits told the National Leadership Roundtable on Church Management.
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Spirituality aids nun trapped in elevator for three days, four nights

Getting trapped for three days and four nights in a cramped 5-by-4 elevator is not most people’s idea of an opportunity for spiritual renewal. Then again, most people aren’t like Sister Margaret Geary.
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Pope calls for church-state cooperation for peace

ROME – While church and state should be separate and respect each other’s role in society, they must cooperate to promote peace, solidarity and the good of all people, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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