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Catholic Charities dedicates $15 million resource center

As a bagpiper played “Amazing Grace” in the halls of the new Our Daily Bread Employment Center May 24, hundreds of citizens followed the musician like the Pied Piper to tour Baltimore’s first full-service resource center for the poor. The symbolic jaunt through the $15 million, 52,000-square-foot facility followed a lavish dedication ceremony of the...
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Schools continue to nurture students after final bell

There was a time when nearly every student’s eyes drifted to the classroom clock as they began to count the seconds to the final school bell of the day.
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Proud 74-year-old college graduate wants to set example

Northwood resident Barbara Williams discovered it was possible for a 74-year-old black woman to become a college graduate when she received her bachelor’s degree May 20, and now she wants to inform the youth of her race the only obstacle in their way of educational achievement is complacency. Armed with a hard-earned diploma from Morgan...
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Pope, cardinals discuss topics from religious freedom to sex abuse

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI and close to 150 top prelates – members of the College of Cardinals and the 24 churchmen who were about to join their ranks – met for a day of prayer and reflection on topics ranging from religious freedom to the clerical sex abuse crisis.
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Schools continue to nurture students after final bell

There was a time when nearly every student’s eyes drifted to the classroom clock as they began to count the seconds to the final school bell of the day.
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Rev. Falwell’s Moral Majority changed politics and religion

WASHINGTON – For many activists in the 1980s-era Moral Majority, there’s no doubt that the religiously based, politically conservative organization changed politics and religion for the better. The election of President Ronald Reagan and a cadre of socially conservative members of Congress in the 1980s changed the direction of politics – particularly by rebuilding the...
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Choosing an independent living community takes research

After her husband of 55 years died a few years ago, Marie Cornely tried to live by herself in her South Carolina home. She soon realized it was just too much for her.
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In new book, Columbia parishioner recounts ordeals in Vietnam

Hai Dang Nguyen’s world was crumbling around him in April 1975. The Communists were on the verge of completely overrunning South Vietnam and Mr. Nguyen knew he had to get his family out of the country.
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Emory unveils correspondence Flannery O’Connor

ATLANTA – Catholic author Flannery O’Connor and Elizabeth “Betty” Hester first began corresponding in 1955 when Ms. Hester wrote a letter to Ms. O’Connor commenting on her work. Ms. Hester’s initial letter was a comment that she thought the author’s collection of short stories, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” were about God. Ms....
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Bishops approve historic agreement with Reformed churches on baptism

In what Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta called “a milestone on the ecumenical journey,” the U.S. Catholic bishops affirmed an agreement to recognize baptisms in four Protestant church communities.
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Catholic high school sophomore to recite pledge at GOP convention

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Victoria Blackstone, 15, will briefly steal the spotlight during the first evening of the Republican National Convention Sept. 1. A sophomore at St. Agnes High School in St. Paul, she won the honor of leading convention attendees in the Pledge of Allegiance through a Twin Cities-area essay contest.
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