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Murdered mom of nine called ‘beautiful person’ who ‘radiated kindness’

Catholics and other members of the Asbury Park community remain shaken by the murder of a Catholic mother of nine who was a popular religious educator and a revered parish leader. More than two weeks after her death they are still trying to make sense of the tragedy and the violence that took the life...
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Collection of Hollywood faith tales fails to separate hooey from holy

Kendall doesn't bother to extricate the hooey from the holy as she cobbles narratives from biographies, clips from newspaper obituaries and the occasional blog post from IMDb, a popular Internet source for movie, TV and celebrity news and information.
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Movie Review: ‘Terminator: Genisys’

Any movie plot that hangs on the ability of an adult character to journey into the past to give vital advice to himself as a child is bound to register as somewhat convoluted.
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Cardinal Dolan: Pope will have ‘profound, lasting impact’ on New Yorkers

The 30 hours or so Pope Francis will spend in New York in September will be relatively brief, yet extremely profound and lasting.
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Floridians hit the road, make parish pilgrimage for religious freedom

A small group of South Florida Catholics embarked June 27 on a daylong pilgrimage to the five Catholic parishes in the Florida Keys.
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Annunciation parishioner honored for extraordinary generosity, Eagle of the Cross honorees named

Twenty youths were selected from Archdiocese of Baltimore parishes and high schools to receive the Eagle of the Cross award.
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Sister Irene Juras, O.S.F., former Baltimore educator, dies

A funeral Mass for Sister Irene Juras of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia was offered July 1 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Irene died June 28.
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Praise for pastoral letter

Archbishop William E. Lori’s pastoral, letter “A Light Brightly Visible,” is an excellent message to all Catholics. It is an easily read and understandable message.
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Every summer has a story (or 25)

One of the highlights of my childhood summers was joining the Harford County Public Library’s Summer Reading Program. My brother and I would tear through chapter books at home, alongside the Chesapeake Bay on Tilghman Island, or on the beach in Ocean City in a race to see who could get to the
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Shark alert: Hammerhead sculptures beneath South Florida’s Blue Heron Bridge turn fear into fun 

The beach by the Singer Island, Florida pump house (Photo: From the webcam at the Palm Beach Lake Worth Inlet)Sharks... Just the mention of the word elicits emotions ranging from fear to excitement to trepidation to intrigue... They have been in the news many times over the past few weeks. There
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Pope Francis’ United States of America Schedule

The schedule for Pope Francis' September 2015 Apostolic Journey to the United States has been released.
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Messy Mondays

In the lime green room, plastic  covers the floor.  It’s the perfect setup for the birth of a Jackson Pollack masterpiece, but today’s artists are much smaller.  Toddlers waddle across the canvas in onesies and diapers armed with a variety of painting tools, their parents chatting and distributing red, orange,
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