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Baltimore host to 2009 World Stem Cell Summit

BALTIMORE – Maryland’s growing role in stem-cell research was highlighted Sept. 21 as researchers from around the globe gathered at the Baltimore Convention Center for the 2009 World Stem Cell Summit.
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Pacing the pope: Pope’s seclusion is prudence, not disappearing act

VATICAN CITY – Every pontificate has its rhythm, and sometimes Pope Benedict XVI’s seems to have more than one.
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Pope meets with Russian Orthodox official, Vatican says ties improved

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI met with a key official of the Russian Orthodox Church amid signs of a significant improvement in relations.
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Newspapers say pope may apologize to Australian clergy abuse victims

SYDNEY, Australia – While in Sydney for World Youth Day, Pope Benedict XVI may apologize to victims of clerical sexual abuse, according to Sydney’s largest circulation newspapers.
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No Time for Complacency

“A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world.” These words of the late Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical, “Gospel of Life,” are a call to action and a rallying cry for change – the kind of change that comes through the most powerful...
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Indians start winning in badminton

After going winless in 2006 and 2007, the Institute of Notre Dame has turned the corner in IAAM badminton.
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Vatican’s got game: The Holy See’s sports hall of fame is revealed

VATICAN CITY – No one would ever mistake St. Peter’s Square for Giants Stadium. But for centuries, the Vatican has hosted countless competitions and dozens of high-caliber athletes – most of them lay employees, some of them monsignors and popes.
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Deacons’ wives supportive of ministry

Severna Park resident Keith Chase is well aware he has an understanding and supportive wife.
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Health care reform about more than one issue

In letters to Congress, both Bishop William F. Murphy, representing the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Justin Rigali, chairman of the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities, expressed strong but qualified support for reforming our health care system. This is a position the bishops have taken for decades in support of the uninsured and calling...
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Pope says trip to U.S. was opportunity to give, receive hope, faith

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said his April 15-20 visit to the United Nations and the United States was an opportunity to give – and to receive – a witness to the power of hope and faith.
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Bishops’ annual Labor Day statement focuses on health reform debate

WASHINGTON – It is possible to bring Catholic values to the ongoing debate over health care reform just as it was done earlier this year in forging a four-way agreement on the potential unionization of workers at Catholic hospitals, said Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y.
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Gibbons makes mark on A Conference

The Cardinal Gibbons School, home of Babe Ruth, has been turning heads this season in the MIAA A Conference baseball league.
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