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Young members continue G.B. Charities legacy

The Kentucky Derby is quickly becoming a Baltimore event. The G.B. Charities Young Members Group hosted a Derby Day fundraiser in 2010 that attracted more than 200 people. More than twice that number is expected to come to Nick’s Fish House May 7 to partake in the fun again, which includes food, drink, prizes, games...
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Live the spirit of Christmas all year

Isaiah the Prophet tells us that in “a land of gloom, a light shall shine.” Allow me to tell two stories of light scattering the darkness.
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OLPH students make religious mosaic out of M&Ms

Images of Our Lady of Perpetual Help have been rendered in oil paint, watercolor and wooden carvings, but none has looked as sweet as the one just finished by 25 fifth graders at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City.
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Basilica Place marks 30 years of making a home for seniors

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 30 years since Catholic Charities first put into bricks and mortar its belief that everyone is entitled to a home.
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Books suitable for Christmas giving

WASHINGTON – The following books are suitable for Christmas giving:
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Parishioner gives secrets of delivering a best man speech

The pressure was on for Steve Ryan to produce a great best man speech at the wedding of his good friend, Michael Williams. Mr. Williams had been Mr. Ryan’s best man more than a year earlier – delivering a stellar speech that guests remembered as funny, witty and touching.
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Chrism Mass celebrates priestly unity

As approximately 170 priests renewed their vows during the April 18 Chrism Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien choked up for a fleeting moment when he prayed that he would fulfill his office despite his own “unworthiness” – becoming more like the High Priest and Good Shepherd...
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Former St. Agnes bereavement center celebrates 25 years of healing

The name and owner may have changed, but the mission of the St. Agnes Hospice Center for Bereavement Care remains strong 25 years into its journey of helping those mourning the loss of loved ones.
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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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Archbishop says church doesn’t fear truth about Pius XII in WW II

NEW YORK – Addressing the continuing controversy over Pope Pius XII’s actions during World War II, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan expressed sympathy before a Jewish audience April 12 at researchers’ “present frustration about the pace of opening the Vatican Archives” from that period.
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Holy sites need legal protection, say speakers at Rome conference

ROME – Every Friday afternoon in Jerusalem’s Old City, thousands of Muslims walk to Al Aqsa Mosque to pray, thousands of Jews walk to the Western Wall to pray and thousands of Christians carry a cross in procession along the Via Dolorosa, recalling the Way of the Cross.
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Bishop urges Catholics to study about St. Paul

WILMINGTON, Del. – In a pastoral letter on “Celebrating the Year of St. Paul,” Bishop Michael A. Saltarelli of Wilmington has called on the faithful in his diocese to discern “how best to study, pray and celebrate the life, inspired writing, spirituality and missionary spirit of St. Paul.”
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