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January 19, 2012

Comberiate siblings excel to great heights

There’s a saying that goes around the Comberiate family: “Being lazy is like slapping God in the face.”

January 19, 2012

Governor’s budget includes textbook funding and aid to poor

Even as Gov. Martin J. O’Malley cut millions of dollars in spending when he outlined his $13 billion operating budget Jan. 19, he spared several funding priorities Catholic leaders had been lobbying to protect.

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January 19, 2012

Catholic leaders see hope for health reform even after Brown election

WASHINGTON – The election of Republican Scott Brown to fill the U.S. Senate seat held since 1962 by Democrat Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts does not mean Catholic leaders will abandon efforts to achieve much-needed health reform.

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January 19, 2012

Quake leaves Haitian church mourning loss of religious young and old

WASHINGTON – As they help Haitians rebuild destroyed homes and mourn lost relatives, Catholic Church workers in Haiti are grieving for members of their own “families” killed or severely injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.

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January 19, 2012

‘It’s not easy being green,’ but it’s part of God’s plan, says pope

VATICAN CITY – Visiting Australia in July gave Pope Benedict XVI an opportunity to develop further his creation morality, which he first explained in the northern Italian Alps a year ago.

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January 19, 2012

Religious orders lose youngest members in Haiti quake

ROME – As religious orders mobilized to help the suffering people of Haiti, many of them had people sitting by computer terminals in Rome waiting to hear news about their youngest members.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop says weapons of war must be abolished ‘before they abolish us’

WORCESTER, Mass. – War has evolved to mean nothing but indiscriminate destruction, retired Auxiliary Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit told the crowd gathered for the Catholic Worker Movement’s 75th anniversary celebration in Worcester.

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January 19, 2012

CIA agent killed in bomb blast remembered as loving husband, father

ARLINGTON, Va. – Harold Brown Jr., one of seven CIA agents killed in a bombing in Afghanistan Dec. 30, was a loving and involved husband and father, said a fellow parishioner at Brown’s Virginia Catholic parish.

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January 19, 2012

Taking steps toward peace in city

Walter Stokes Jr. showed off pews, stained-glass windows and a sanctuary that were part of the restoration that St. Gregory the Great undertook in 2004, on the occasion of the 120th anniversary of its establishment in West Baltimore.

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January 19, 2012

Water conflicts volatile but can be resolved peacefully, panel says

WASHINGTON – As the world’s population grows and the amount and sources of potable water shrink, the number of conflicts over water access and usage is likely to increase, said members of a panel on water rights that convened Jan. 6 in Washington.

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January 19, 2012

Angela Calamari sees St. Katharine School as positive force

Angela Calamari was attracted to St. Katharine School in Baltimore because she saw it as a school that can be a positive force in the community. Strengthening that community presence is a big part of the new principal’s agenda.

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January 19, 2012

Matton succeeds Beck as president of Good Sam

As Larry M. Beck and the leadership of Good Samaritan Hospital searched for a chief operating officer in 2006, their charge went beyond landing someone who knew his way around a ledger.

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