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Our God, of now

A new year reminds us of both birth and death. It’s not always easy to let go of the old.
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Loyola mourns sudden death of student

The Loyola Blakefield community is trying to recover after the death of junior Dennis Woolford in an auto accident Sept. 26.
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Texas investing coalition marks 25 years of mixing faith, finance

SAN ANTONIO – Although the early founders of the socially responsible investment movement might be described as “fools with faith,” they can look with pride to years of providing a platform for religious communities to use their moral voice and financial vote to influence corporations, according to one of those pioneers.
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Bishops reiterate church teaching on marriage, oppose same-sex unions

WASHINGTON – In actions to fight state efforts to legalize same-sex marriage during 2010, the U.S. bishops reiterated the church’s teaching on the sanctity of marriage, made their Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage a permanent subcommittee and distributed materials explaining the Catholic view of traditional marriage.
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Agencies say world powers are failing to bring peace to Holy Land

LONDON – A group of major world powers is failing to bring peace to the Holy Land, said a report by aid agencies and human rights groups.
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Sen. Cardin meets with Md. religious leaders

In his first official assembly with Maryland religious leaders, Sen. Ben Cardin laid out his vision for the war in Iraq, immigration reform, peace intervention in the Holy Land and national health coverage, and set up a process to confer with the group on a regular basis.
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Iraq violence requires multiple perspectives

George Weigel (CR, Dec. 2) cites the horrific murder of 50 Christians in Iraq and calls readers to awake to the evils of radical Islam. The Catholic Church is taken to task for being too soft on “radical” Islam, just as it was on Communism. He refers to the persecution of Christian Palestinians by Muslim...
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Mount Carmel is bedrock of Essex community

When Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett arrived at Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Essex 12 years ago, the neighborhood parish was trying to hold together a surrounding community undergoing great change.
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Father Bak, ‘pioneer’ in diaconate, dies

Father Bernard S. Bak, one of the first permanent deacons ordained in the United States who later became a priest for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died in his Dundalk home June 8. He was 85. A funeral Mass was offered June 11 at St. Casimir in Canton, the parish in which Father Bak grew up...
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Cardinal Keeler honored at Jewish Museum

Two curators of a national exhibition highlighting Pope John Paul II’s relationship with Jews recently honored Cardinal William H. Keeler, a longtime advocate of interfaith understanding.
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Now a parish with a pastor, St. James feels fulfilled

The worshippers of St. James Mission in Boonsboro couldn’t believe what Father Stephen E. Hook said.
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Archdiocese collects scrap metal for statue of Pope John Paul

MEXICO CITY – The Archdiocese of Leon is collecting scrap metal to create a life-size statue of Pope John Paul II.
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