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Baffled by FOCA article

I am completely baffled by “Catholic health care is not threatened by FOCA” (CR, Feb. 5). The article reads like a pro-choice defense of FOCA. The main support comes from a Sister Carol Keehan (CHA president and CEO) who states that even if a federal law were to mandate that all hospitals provide abortion services,...
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Government site helps seniors navigate red tape

Even though there are multitudes of governmental services that benefit seniors, it’s not always easy navigating the bureaucracy.
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87-year-old parishioner gives back

When Mary Chesnavage ran the lunch program at Sacred Heart of Mary School in Graceland Park, students ate nothing but the best.
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USCCB president calls bishop’s Holocaust remarks ‘offensive,’ ‘false’

WASHINGTON – Cardinal Francis E. George of Chicago, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, labeled as “deeply offensive and utterly false” remarks denying the Holocaust made by a formerly schismatic bishop whose excommunication was lifted in January by Pope Benedict XVI.
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Consultations to focus on future of Catholic schools

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will unveil his vision for Catholic education’s future in two closed-door consultation meetings Feb. 10 and 12 at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia.
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Schools should have been closed on inauguration day

The recent article “Catholics to tune in for inauguration” (CR, Jan. 15) was both interesting and disappointing. The decision rendered to keep schools open on inauguration day bespoke of cultural inadequacy and the added policy of recording a student’s absence as “unexcused” raised once again gross insensitivity. The policy served as a barrier of evangelization...
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Vatican and traditionalists: A story whose end has not been written

VATICAN CITY – In the long-standing conflict between the Vatican and the traditionalist Society of St. Pius X, Pope Benedict XVI has been a key figure in reconciliation efforts that, so far, have always fallen short.
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The story of Joe-Joe

Parables come packaged in different ways. Mine often come in the form of cats and dogs! Allow me to share some leftover stories from the holidays.
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Pope lifts excommunications of Lefebvrite bishops

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has lifted the excommunication of four bishops ordained against papal orders in 1988 by the late Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. The move was considered a major concession to the archbishop’s traditionalist followers.
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Maryland was complex state during Lincoln era

I enjoyed reading “Catholic press reflected disdain for Lincoln in Maryland,” (CR, Jan. 15) but believe the article oversimplified the highly complex geopolitical situation of Maryland in the 1860s.
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Catholic High engineers a new course for students

Like many high school students starting their senior year, Rachel Berry has a high interest in a particular college major.
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MCC lauds governor’s move against death penalty

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley may help break a logjam in the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee by introducing his own legislation repealing the death penalty.
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