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January 19, 2012

Weinberg Foundation: $3.5 million to Catholic Schools

A Baltimore-based Jewish foundation is pledging $3.5 million to Baltimore City Catholic schools in an effort to boost enrollment and attract even more financial support for urban-based Catholic education. In a Dec. 14 event at the Catholic Center in Baltimore, Cardinal William H. Keeler and Donn Weinberg of the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation announced...
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January 19, 2012

Part of California tuition aid bill for undocumented students now law

LOS ANGELES – Marking what community leaders labeled as a milestone and a historic moment, California Gov. Jerry Brown July 25 signed a portion of the state’s DREAM Act and urged Californians to “invest in the people” and to “engage in the debate.”
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January 19, 2012

Gang priest to speak at 30th Social Ministry Convocation

Peacebuilding will be the focus of the 30th annual Social Ministry Convocation March 7 at The Seton Keough High School in Baltimore.
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January 19, 2012

Moving in fast forward: 2006 saw acceleration of Benedict’s papacy

The year 2006 saw an acceleration of Pope Benedict XVI's pontificate, highlighted by publication of the pope's first encyclical, four foreign trips and important appointments at the Vatican and around the world. For what was supposed to be a pared-back papacy, it was a busy 12 months.
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January 19, 2012

Founding president of Christendom College dies at age 79

FRONT ROYAL, Va. – Warren H. Carroll, founding president of Christendom College in Front Royal and a leading Catholic historian and author, died July 17 in his sleep at his Manassas home, according to Timothy O’Donnell, Christendom’s president.
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January 19, 2012

God will forgive, bless those who seek conversion, pope says

ROME – If people act on God’s call to conversion, he will forgive them everything and bless them, Pope Benedict XVI said just before receiving ashes and distributing ashes to mark the beginning of Lent.
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January 19, 2012

Vatican spokesman says pope did not ask Kissinger to be his adviser

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI does not have a foreign affairs advisory board, and he has not asked former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to become one of his advisers, the Vatican spokesman said.
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January 19, 2012

AmeriCorps’ recognizes Baltimore-based Notre Dame Mission Volunteers

WASHINGTON – The Notre Dame Mission Volunteers, an AmeriCorps program, has received a renewal of its grant for the 2011 fiscal year, but the federal funding cuts for volunteer-based programs make the financial future of Notre Dame-AmeriCorps program unclear.
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January 19, 2012

Answers lie ahead in Why Catholic? Program

Even though he serves as the director of religious education at St. Patrick in Cumberland, Deacon Loren Mooney is always looking for ways to spark interest in the adult faith program, Why Catholic?
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January 19, 2012

St. Agatho

St. Agatho, born in Sicily, spent his early life as a married businessman. However, he found his calling and became a monk in Palermo, Sicily. Agatho became pope June 27, 678. He resolved the first dispute in which English bishops appealed to Rome. He also reunited Constantinople and Rome. St. Agatho died in Rome in...
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January 19, 2012

Murdered Dominican recalled as priest who ‘drew the best out of people’

BATON ROUGE, La. – A Louisiana Dominican priest who was found shot to death July 11 at his order’s Mississippi retreat house “was a good priest and a good preacher” who “drew the best out of people,” said an official of the late priest’s province.
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January 19, 2012

Gov. O’Malley calls for up or down vote on death penalty

Calling the death penalty “an expensive and utterly ineffective tool in deterring violent crime,” Gov. Martin J. O’Malley implored members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee to allow his proposed capital punishment ban to reach the floor for a vote by the full legislative body.
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