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St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute celebrates graduates

St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park celebrated the graduation of 19 students from its Ecumenical Institute of Theology May 14, including seven Catholic students from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In addition, 22 seminarians received degrees from the School of Theology. Among them was Rev. Mr. Marc Lanoue, a priesthood candidate for the Archdiocese...
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Archbishop O’Brien reads to Immaculate Conception School students

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien reads to Immaculate Conception School, Towson, students during his visit May 20. The archbishop read to kindergartens from a book about Mary, mother of Jesus. The visit coincides with the church’s celebration of Mary in the month of May.
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Archdiocese investigates possible Seelos miracle

Go home and prepare to die. That’s what Mary Ellen Heibel’s doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington told her May 11, 2004, after they discovered that the cancer that had attacked Heibel’s esophagus in 2003 and then a lymph node later that year had spread throughout her body.
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Education committee opens site for public comments

The blue-ribbon committee charged with providing a long-term strategic plan for the health of Catholic schools is soliciting online comments from the public.
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Protect the unborn

When will Catholics be truthful to themselves? Re the letter “Why did Bush have our blessing?” (CR, May 14), let us be clear about the Notre Dame scandal. It is not the invitation of President Obama to speak at Notre Dame that is the problem; it is the conferring of an honorary degree that has...
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Toward a safe run

Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, director of the Arc
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Prayers offered for assaulted priest and alleged assailant

SINTON, Texas – In an example of the church’s prayerful response to violence within its own community, the people of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Sinton gathered in prayer with Corpus Christi Bishop Edmond Carmody May 10 for their parish priest and his alleged assailant.
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Notre Dame is the one being defiant

Letter-writer Jeannette Mollenkopf (CR, May 14) thinks abortion is a “horrible crime,” but she doesn’t get the objection to Notre Dame’s invitation to Obama while Bush was welcomed.
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Don’t tread on Catholics like me

Maryland Catholics need to wake up and take action. In Archbishop O’Brien’s column (CR, May 7) he talks about the silencing of Catholics in 1633 and again in 2009.
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Irish cardinal attends Anglican synod, preaches in Trinity chapel

DUBLIN, Ireland – An Irish cardinal has made an unprecedented ecumenical gesture by attending a Church of Ireland service and by preaching in a once-forbidden Anglican chapel.
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Calvert Hall principal awarded Christian Brothers highest honor

Calvert Hall College High School principal Louis E. Heidrick was to be presented the Letter of Affiliation by the Brothers of Christian Schools May 14.
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Parishioner prays for brother’s canonization

Glancing up at an oil painting of a boy dressed in a black cassock, white collar, wide-brimmed hat and round spectacles, Pietro Canzi struggled to hold back his emotions.
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