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Masters champion, product of Dallas Jesuit prep school, remains humble

Even after becoming the toast of the sports world, golfer Jordan Spieth, a 21-year-old Dallas Jesuit graduate, remained humble.
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Sister Elena Goulding, O.S.F., dies

A funeral Mass for Sister Elena Goulding, of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, was offered April 14.
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A friend, indeed

I had been caring for three sick boys for a week and a day, when my friend Gina sent me a message asking if she could do anything to help. I told her if I thought of anything, I’d let her know. Then, she offered to pick Collin up and
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Good Samaritan Hospital’s new glass chapel doors clear the way for quiet prayer

It wasn’t always easy to pray in quiet reverence in the chapel at MedStar Good Samaritan Hospital in northeast Baltimore.
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Song, dance, speech: St. Matthew prays for victims of massacre in Kenya

“They more they attack, the more we pray and pray and pray,” said parishioner and Mercy High School student Malaika Wanjihia.
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Mutscheller, steady Baltimore Colt, was a ‘Catholic gentleman’

Former Baltimore Colts player Jim Mutscheller died April 10 of kidney failure.
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Nonpublic schools come up short as 2015 legislative session closes

Although they came close to passing a long-sought state program benefitting students in Maryland’s nonpublic schools, supporters of the proposal were thwarted in the waning hours of the 2015 legislative session.
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The Blessed Mother is in the window: Praying for fine weather for my daughter’s wedding day

My youngest daughter is getting married in eleven days: How time flies. It seems like she was just a little girl running around the playground at St. Margaret School... But no... In what seems like a blink of an eye, she is now all grown up with a career as a
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A pretty penny indeed: Special dolphin coin helps child fight cancer

On her family’s first trip to the National Aquarium in Baltimore on Feb. 20, Katie Mays' son, Liam, received a souvenir penny.
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Pope says Year of Mercy will be time to heal, to help, to forgive

Mercy is what makes God perfect and all-powerful, Pope Francis said in his document officially proclaiming the 2015-2016 extraordinary Holy Year of Mercy.
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Term ‘genocide’ angers Turkey, while pope says memory leads to healing

Commemorating the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, Pope Francis said atrocities from the past have to be recognized - not hidden or denied.
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Shopping for mac and cheese and feeling grateful to be a mother

As I reached for a few boxes of macaroni and cheese, I noticed a woman standing there staring at the grocery store shelves. Ah, I knew that look. She was overwhelmed by the choices, not sure where to begin.“What’s the difference?” she asked.“Some of them it’s just the packaging, or
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