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Erickson donates to Catholic organizations

Erickson Retirement Communities, the Baltimore-based senior housing developer that operates Charlestown and Oak Crest Village, donated $1.2 million to nonprofit organizations across the country last year.
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Hundreds pray in Montgomery County for conversion of late-term abortion doctor

GERMANTOWN – About 700 Catholics gathered in their winter hats and coats for an early morning Mass and prayerful protest Dec. 11 outside an abortion clinic to pray for the conversion of LeRoy Carhart, a doctor who recently came to Montgomery County from Nebraska to perform late term abortions.
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Site realcatholictv.com disappoints

I read with interest the article (CR, Sept. 11) on the new Internet TV site, realcatholictv.com and clicked on the site with equal interest. Imagine my disappointment when I discovered it to be more of the ‘same old, same old.’
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Monsignor Cronin leaves a legacy of laughter in his wake

A funeral Mass will be offered March 5 for Monsignor James J. Cronin, a beloved pastor whose Irish wit and concern for his parishioners made him immensely popular.
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Vatican, PLO resume talks toward building comprehensive agreement

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican and the Palestine Liberation Organization have resumed diplomatic talks and agreed to establish a working group dedicated to drafting a comprehensive agreement between the two parties.
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Vatican says baptisms using wrong words are not valid

VATICAN CITY – A baptism administered “in the name of the Creator, and of the Redeemer and of the Sanctifier” is not a baptism at all, said the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Pope, ecumenical leader discuss fate of Christians in Middle East

VATICAN CITY – The Rev. Olav Fykse Tveit, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, gave Pope Benedict XVI a wooden box carved in Syria as a sign of ecumenical concern for the fate of Christians in the Middle East.
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Franciscan Center has been a blockbuster for 40 years

As Baltimore’s Franciscan Center celebrated its 40th anniversary with a block party, Sept. 10, volunteer Ellen Daniels stood in the hubbub and spoke about how the nonprofit organization was able to help her.
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Cardinal hopes for new impetus in church-state relations

HAVANA – Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, said he hoped his six-day visit had helped give “new impetus to relations between the church and the government of Cuba.”
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Sister retires after 23 years of welcoming the poor at Beans & Bread

Sister Eleanor Noll was part of a small community of Benedictine sisters who relocated to Baltimore in 1971, during a time when nuns were changing not just their traditional habits but also their roles.
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U.S. bishops ask Bush to allow money, travel to Cuba after hurricanes

WASHINGTON – The U.S. bishops have urged President George W. Bush to suspend – even temporarily – the U.S. government’s ban on remittances and travel to Cuba “in light of the devastation and humanitarian disaster caused by recent hurricanes in Cuba.”
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