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The Sunday dilemma

 OK, I’ll admit it. Most Sundays I go alone to the 9 a.m. Mass and John goes to the 11. Our boys stay home.It’s not that we don’t want our sons to experience the beauty of the Mass, to hum along with the hymns, smell the incense, and maybe even
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With faith, you don’t have to wait for love, joy and happiness

Maybe you didn't with the Lottery, but faith gives you a good freeling every day.
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Review “Bully” Is Worth Fighting For

  Alex Libby is picked on relentlessly in "Bully." (Courtesy The Weinstein Company)    Near the end of the documentary“Bully,” a school principal sits down with the parents of a constantly picked on pre-teen. The mother implores the principal to stop the bullies from attacking her son, Alex Libby, on the bus  
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Author Sparks puts Catholicism into practice both on, off the page

Nicholas Sparks, the popular Catholic romance novelist, puts his faith into practice in several different ways.
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Sister Rose Mary Ballasty taught at three Baltimore schools

A funeral Mass for School Sister of Notre Dame Rose Mary Ballasty, 89, was offered April 3. She was a sister for 66 years.
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More than 700 initiated into Catholic Church

More than 700 new Catholics entered the church April 7 at Easter Vigil services throughout the archdiocese.
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Can “Bully” make a difference?

  Although I saw the controversial new documentary "Bully" last week in Baltimore, I can't review it until Wednesday. But, as someone who covers youths and young adults for CatholicReview.org, I can tell you that I was left with several questions, including the subject line: Will "Bully" make a difference in
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Movie Review: Are you ready to go back to ‘Titanic?’

Making a spectacle of the 20th century's greatest sea disaster is the blockbuster, "Titanic," now rereleased in 3-D.
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Slideshow: Cross surfing shows teen faith is strong

 Anyone who's been on CatholicReview.org lately knows that Tom McCarthy Jr. has been turning out some outstanding slideshows and today's, while brief, is no different. In this exclusive slideshow to The Welcome Matt, we look back at last week's Youth and Young Adult Pilgrimage, as young people pass a large
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Following the Cross

 Daniel wasn’t sure he wanted to leave the house this morning, especially since his father and big brother were home. But when he heard that Mama was going “downtown,” I couldn’t get his shoes on fast enough. Daniel loves all the vehicles and the energy of the city.It was our
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Cardinal leads Good Friday procession

Catholic Review blogger Rita Buettner shares her first experience with the Good Friday Way of the Cross procession from the Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore to Planned Parenthood on Howard Street.
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Death by robo-call

I write to announce the newest cause for sainthood, not only an American, but someone from the Archdiocese of Baltimore: Thomas P. Sheahen, confessor.
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