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Clarksville parishioners honor memory of daughters through scholarship

Grief and pain are temporary for parents who believe that they will be reunited with their children in eternity.
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Mount St. Joe earns top seed

Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, will be the top seed in both the MIAA A Conference and the Baltimore Catholic League basketball tournaments.
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St. Margaret’s anti-bullying program inspired by Columbine victim

BEL AIR – On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold approached Columbine High School in Littleton, Colo. and saw Rachel Scott sitting in some nearby grass with a friend.
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Domestic violence on the rise as recession stresses hit home

WASHINGTON – On any given night Sister Betty Adams knows that usually she will see five or six women in the shelter she oversees for women fleeing domestic violence in Sierra Vista, Ariz., 80 miles southeast of Tucson.
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Reflections on the Cockeysville murders

Although I was across the country when the news broke about the Browning family in Cockeysville, I couldn’t help but to try to find out as much information as possible, especially since I was somewhat responsible for nine high school students myself during that time. It was the crime that no one thought could ever...
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More than 250 teens from Baltimore to head to Indianapolis

Two years ago, Emily Moesner didn’t know what to expect as she headed to Kansas City, Mo. For the National Catholic Youth Conference. By the end of the first night there, she was transformed.
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St. Agnes Stroke Center saves lives

When Patricia Fetcho of St. Alphonsus Rodriguez, Woodstock, called her daughter’s mobile phone Oct. 17, 2007, with slurred speech, she wasn’t sure what was going on.
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Leap year reminds Catholics of faith’s relationship with time

Since Feb. 29 only falls on the calendar every four years, Sherry Strickler of Fort Meade rarely thinks about the unusual date – but she’s thinking about it in 2008. The 40-year-old parishioner of Our Lady of Peace, Fort Meade, was surprised to learn that Pope Gregory XIII is actually responsible for establishing the modern-day...
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Fifth-graders talk faith at Notre Dame

An estimated 400 fifth-grade students from Archdiocese of Baltimore Catholic schools file into LeClerc Hall on the campus of Notre Dame of Maryland University Oct. 27, and Sister Patricia Dowling just smiled.
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US rabbis praise Pope Benedict for remarks on Holocaust during trip

NEW YORK – A group of prominent U.S. rabbis involved in interfaith relations praised Pope Benedict XVI May 12 for his remarks at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem that drew criticism from several Israeli politicians and journalists.
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Australian prime minister apologizes to Aboriginal peoples

CANBERRA, Australia – Members of Parliament and visitors gave Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd a standing ovation after he made a long-awaited apology to Australia’s Aboriginal peoples.
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Millersville father remembers daughter with rosary

When a young mother named Jennifer McWhorter Thomas was dying of melanoma earlier this year – just 37 and beautiful, her family beyond panic but not tears – she asked her father for a favor.
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