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Keeping perspective during a half-empty, half-full kind of day

(Photo via Flickr: kalyan02)If I had posted Facebook statuses throughout my day yesterday, it might have sounded rather miserable. But when I look at it with a half-full approach, I realize it was actually a perfectly fine day.Bad: Our son got sick in the car on the way to school.Good: He
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Movie Review: The Great Gatsby

A great American novel doesn’t always, it seems, translate into a sure-fire film property.
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Ascension observed May 11-12

The feast of the Ascension of the Lord, a holy day of obligation, is May 9 but will be observed in churches throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore the weekend of May 11-12.
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Health and faith inspire sisters’ new online T-shirt company

Two sisters are convinced that God and good food played central roles in their healing from chronic illnesses.
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Part 3: The Four Secrets to Happiness – Mom Style

Part 3: Living Junk-FreeThe first two of four secrets of happiness were revealed to me by a kind grandmother on an emergency trip to Dollar General.  But, she had forgotten the other two.  I scoured the web for the complete set of secrets, but couldn’t trace the source that had
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School news from around the archdiocese

Read about what Archdiocese of Baltimore students and teachers are achieving and how they are giving back to the community.
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Statement of superintendent of schools on Monsignor Slade School

Dr. Barbara McGraw Edmondson, Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, sent the following statement to families of Msgr. Slade School in Glen Burnie earlier today.
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Guest post: 10 things a special-needs mom learned (the hard way)

 Laura Hatcher and her husband, Brian, have two children, Olivia, 10, and Simon, 7, and are parishioners at Church of the Nativity in Timonium, Md. As we look ahead to Mother’s Day, I invited her to write a guest blog sharing how raising Simon, who has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and hydrocephalus,
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Plenty of room to swing a cat—but where’s the cat?

Last night as the boys and I were driving home, we passed a burning pickup truck. The front was completely engulfed in flames.“Mama,” Leo said, “if that happens to our car, I won’t worry about stepping on things on the floor. I will just get out of the car.”Our 5-year-old
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Catholic high school youths take part in Navy Seal fitness challenge

Catholic youths participated in The Catholic Youth and Navy Seal Fitness Challenge May 4 at Loyola University Maryland.
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Sacrificial Service: Swearing-In Day with the Swiss Guards

Pope Francis with the Swiss Guards before today's Swearing-In Ceremony at the Vatican (Vatican Radio) I have always been intrigued by the Pontifical Swiss Guards. I think their unusual uniform was what first got my attention when I was a teenager. This costume-like design from the Renaissance is said to have been created by Michelangelo. Standing guard
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