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Confession scares some

Waverly resident Diane Davis has a confession to make. She hasn’t been in nearly 30 years.
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Cardinal Newman Society and Mount St. Mary’s form partnership

The Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education, a division of The Cardinal Newman Society, will relocate to Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg under the leadership of Monsignor Stuart Swetland, effective July 1.
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Courage

The reaction to my mentioning on this page some weeks ago that I planned to make Courage, a support group for Catholics with same-sex attractions who seek to live chaste lives, available in the Archdiocese, was generally favorable.
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Cards community needs to believe

Calvert Hall College High School’s head football coach, Donald Davis, has his work cut out for him as he continues to challenge and change the mindset of his players and those associated with the Towson football program. Bottom line: They need to believe that they can win football games.
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Redemptorist Father Robert Wojtek to lead Sacred Heart of Jesus

Redemptorist Father Robert F. Wojtek, pastor of the Catholic Community of St. Michael and St. Patrick in Fells Point since 2005, will become the pastor of Sacred Heart of Jesus in Highlandtown July 27.
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Vatican names two new archbishops for Mexico

MEXICO CITY – Pope Benedict XVI named Auxiliary Bishop Victor Sanchez Espinosa of Mexico City as the new archbishop of Puebla, one of the oldest archdioceses in the country.
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Blessed Damien’s sainthood cause takes step forward

HONOLULU – The sainthood cause of Blessed Damien de Veuster took a significant step forward when the medical commission of the Vatican Congregation for Saints’ Causes ruled that the healing of a Hawaiian woman of lung cancer more than 10 years ago was “unexplainable according to available medical knowledge.”
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Catholic college breaks ground on pregnancy, aftercare maternity home

BELMONT, N.C. – Belmont Abbey College broke ground June 20 on a campus pregnancy and aftercare maternity home called Room at the Inn.
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Vatican: Bishop’s Holocaust statements ‘strongly rejected’ by pope

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican said a traditionalist bishop who has minimized the full extent of the Holocaust must disavow his positions before he will be accepted into full communion with the church.
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Chaldean Catholics said key to boycott of Miller

DETROIT – Chaldean Catholic Bishop Ibrahim N. Ibrahim credited the support of Chaldean Catholics in metro Detroit for the success of a boycott of Miller Brewing Co. products that he said resulted in the company pledging to never again support events that insult and offend religious sensibilities.
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Containing federal health care costs is issue that goes back decades

WASHINGTON – In December 1971, Monsignor Harrold Murray, who oversaw health care issues for the U.S. bishops, predicted that the federal outlay for health care, which was $26 billion in 1960, would grow to more than $100 billion by 1974.
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Jesuits seek deeper understanding of immigration with border project

NOGALES, Mexico – When Leoba Marcos crossed the Sonoran desert earlier this year, she didn’t know what to expect.
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