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January 19, 2012

Special care collection helps priests pay for medical needs

A second collection Jan. 19-20 will give Catholics in the archdiocese the opportunity to support priests requiring special medical in nursing homes and assisted living facilities, as well as those priests – regardless of age – who are convalescing following surgery, serious injury or illness.
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January 19, 2012

School’s baseball lineage more poignant with imminent closing

One week before the start of this baseball season, Matt Foster received gut-punching news. The first-year coach of Cardinal Gibbons High School, where he was a 2001 graduate, learned that the Archdiocese of Baltimore would close the institution in June for financial reasons
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January 19, 2012

Maryland bishops look to state to help pregnant women

ANNAPOLIS – The Maryland Catholic Conference is asking state lawmakers and Gov. Martin J. O’Malley to support the Pregnant Women Support Act, legislation that would partner the State of Maryland with non-profit organizations to help women in crisis pregnancies.
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January 19, 2012

Parents say media frenzy shouldn’t lead to fear of oversea adoptions

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – In the wake of the international media frenzy surrounding the story of a Tennessee woman who recently sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to Russia unaccompanied, Carrie Krenson of Nashville’s Cathedral of the Incarnation is eager to share her “boring old story” of adopting two children from Russia.
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January 19, 2012

Kenyan bishop says his appeals for aid have been met

NAIROBI, Kenya – A Kenyan bishop said his appeals for humanitarian assistance for the Diocese of Eldoret have been met quickly following the violence sparked by the country’s disputed Dec. 27 general elections.
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January 19, 2012

Shroud of Turin is way to contemplate the face of God, expert says

TURIN, Italy – The Shroud of Turin, believed by many to be Christ’s burial cloth, offers Christians a way to contemplate God’s face and reflect on the meaning of Christian suffering, said an expert on sacred art.
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January 19, 2012

U.S. priests travel countryside to tend to their flock

BANICA, Dominican Republic – On a cool late November morning in the small rural mountain village of La Palma, local residents heard the familiar sound of a motorcycle.
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January 19, 2012

Octogenarian plus: At 83, things are getting busy for Pope Benedict

VATICAN CITY – Almost lost in the recent furor over clerical sex abuse is that Pope Benedict XVI just turned 83 and is approaching one of the busiest stretches of his pontificate.
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January 19, 2012

History Wall shows evolution of Shrine of the Sacred Heart

Anyone wishing to discover 140 years of history of the parish and school of Shrine of the Sacred Heart, Mt. Washington, need only slip downstairs to the church undercroft.
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January 19, 2012

Believing is seeing

During Lent I had the privilege of leading a couple of evenings of reflection at St. Casimir in Canton. After one of the services, a lady told me about the parish during WWII. She said that right across from the church was a packing plant. Among the workers there were a number of German soldiers...
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January 19, 2012

Catholic officials in Hungary denounce gay marriage

OXFORD, England – Catholic Church officials in Hungary have denounced the government’s decision to extend marriage rights to unmarried and same-sex couples.
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January 19, 2012

OFFICIAL STATEMENT ON THE DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP WILLIAM D. BORDERS

Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, announced today that Archbishop William D. Borders, 13th Archbishop of Baltimore, died this morning at 10:03 at Stella Maris in Timonium. He was 96 years old.
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