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Father Mueller assigned to Holy Apostles, Gambrills

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has appointed Father Kevin A. Mueller, a Baltimore area native who spent the last two years at St. Mary in Hagerstown, as the new pastor of Church of the Holy Apostles, Gambrills.
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Year in Review: Pope faced tough challenges inside and outside the church

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will look back on 2010 as a challenging year for the priesthood and a time of trial for Christian minorities.
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Arthur Micozzi, dedicated deacon, dead at 72

A funeral Mass was held for Deacon Arthur L. Micozzi, one of the founding members of St. Isaac Jogues, at his longtime parish in Carney June 23.
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Clergy, other critics call for end to Maryland death penalty

ANNAPOLIS – Clergy members criticized the death penalty as immoral in testimony before a commission that will make recommendations to state lawmakers by year’s end.
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Diocese won’t allow ‘Angels and Demons’ to be filmed in Rome churches

ROME – Rome diocesan officials have denied Hollywood producers permission to film the prequel to “The Da Vinci Code” inside its churches in Rome.
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Company offers electronic rosary with late pope’s voice leading prayers

VATICAN CITY – An Italian company is offering an electronic rosary with the voice of Pope John Paul II leading the prayers.
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Bishops’ document on election goes high tech in podcast, video format

WASHINGTON – Ask Catholic teenagers if they’ve read a recent document by the U.S. bishops and you might get a blank look.
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Facing death enriches trust in God

In last week’s column I shared my ‘near-death’ experience from pulmonary embolisms – blood clots that broke off from a larger clot in my leg and traveled to my lungs. As I explained last week, a blood clot in the leg is known as DVT – Deep Vein Thrombosis. Two hundred thousand people die each...
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Do we need an Advent intervention?

It’s Advent again, my friends. This is a time for us to prepare ourselves for the return of Jesus. One might ask, aren’t we to be doing that daily? I agree that we should. We get caught up in everyday living, however, and this takes us away from what we as Catholic Christians should be...
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Cardinal says main priority is to help people suffering after Ike

HOUSTON – Cardinal Daniel N. DiNardo of Galveston-Houston told archdiocesan employees Sept. 17 that in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike his “major preoccupation right now” is the number of people who are lacking food and water and facing “difficulties with gasoline and lack of power.”
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