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MCC encouraged as Supreme Court declines to hear appeal of law on in-state tuition for immigrants

The U.S. Supreme Court declined June 6 to hear an appeal of a decade-old California law that allows undocumented immigrants and others without state residency to attend college at in-state tuition rates. The action allows the policy to continue.
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Maryvale students raise energy awareness

More than a few switches will be flipped in the gymnasium of Maryvale Preparatory School Feb. 27.
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Father Deiss dies; was liturgical composer

FRANKLIN PARK, Ill. – Holy Ghost Father Lucien Deiss, a liturgical music composer and a liturgical consultant at the Second Vatican Council, died Oct. 9 in his native France. He was 86 years old.
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Surviving the storms of change

The “Monumental City” – this is how President John Quincy Adams referred to Baltimore in 1827. The president was talking about Baltimore’s unique skyline with its church steeples and monuments.
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Historic inaugural seen as chance to recall place of religion in U.S.

WASHINGTON – All Americans can see in the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama as the nation’s first African-American president an indication of the country’s “historic, proud, but not always realized, boast to be a land where all are equal,” Washington’s archbishop said Jan. 18.
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‘Simple deeds’ can promote life, Bishop Newman says

Celebrating the Oct. 7 archdiocesan Respect Life Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Bishop William C. Newman, retired eastern vicar, said all Catholics are called to “sow small seeds of simple words and simple deeds promoting the dignity of life.”
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Religious face identity challenges, say speakers at Rome assembly

ROME - Unprecedented social and cultural changes around the world are challenging the church’s religious orders to re-examine their identity and their prophetic role, speakers at a Rome conference said.
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St. John Regional teachers knit caps for babies

Avid knitter Joan D’Loughy has made hats, scarves, baby sweaters and other simple projects in the five years since she took up the hobby. However, when she discovered that she could use her knitting skills to help babies in need, she cast on once again – this time for charity.
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Experts warn of immigration scam

Unscrupulous operators are misleading some immigrants in the United States into false hopes about their chances of being granted legal status in Canada, Detroit-area immigration advisers warned
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Palestinian Christians wary about Obama’s proposals for peace

JERUSALEM - U.S. President Barack Obama’s call for Israeli and Palestinian states based on Israel’s 1967 borders met with a largely wary response from Palestinian Christians.
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In her last school stop, first lady Laura Bush visits Catholic school

BETHESDA – First lady Laura Bush, who has visited countless schools in the United States and foreign countries, made her last school visit Jan. 13 to Little Flower School, a Catholic school in the Washington suburb of Bethesda.
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Philippine governor wants no charges if attacker is ill

SAN FERNANDO, Philippines – A priest who serves as provincial governor of Pampanga said he wants police to drop charges against a man who allegedly drew a knife on him if the man is mentally ill.
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