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Papal Mass an ‘amazing’ experience for youths

Laura Vesely remembers her parents’ excitement about attending the papal Mass when Pope John Paul II visited Baltimore in 1995. It didn’t seem fair that she was left behind to watch it on television. But, then again, she was only in elementary school at the time.
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Father O’Connell, Catholic University president, to step down in 2010

WASHINGTON – Vincentian Father David M. O’Connell, president of The Catholic University of America, announced Oct. 2 that he notified the university’s board of trustees he has decided to step down as president next August.
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Looking for answers in life? Look to flowers

Spring really is “bursting out all over.” The death of the winter to the new life of spring is indeed a wonderful time to celebrate the death of Christ and now his new risen life in this Easter Season.
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Ethicist says ‘mistaken’ reproductive choices bring ‘surreal’ results

WASHINGTON - The case of an Ohio woman who recently gave birth to another couple’s child because she was implanted with the wrong embryo at a fertility clinic shows how “potentially surreal” the situation can become when reproduction is separated from the intimacy of marriage, said a leading Catholic ethicist.
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Archbishop O’Brien sees papal visit as impetus for renewal

Calling Pope Benedict XVI’s April 15-20 visit to the United States a moment of “renewal” for the Catholic Church in this country, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien said the pope has given Americans much to ponder and pray on in the coming weeks and months.
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Pope to visit Fatima shrine in Portugal next May

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI plans to visit the shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal next May, Portuguese bishops announced.
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Pope achieved objectives critical to future of U.S. church

NEW YORK – On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church.
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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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What’s a Norwegian Protestant doing singing for pope in a synagogue?

NEW YORK – On Fridays and Saturdays, Daryl Henricksen, a Protestant, sings a cappella, in Hebrew, at the historic Park East Synagogue in New York. On Saturday evenings and Sundays, he’s a member of the mixed adult choir and the cantor for four Masses at Resurrection Catholic Church in Rye, N.Y.
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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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Archbishop discusses peace-building, maintaining peace in Burundi

NOTRE DAME, Ind. – Archbishop Evariste Ngoyagoye of Bujumbura, Burundi, came to the Conference on the Future of Catholic Peace-building with a story of Catholic engagement that brought about peace in Burundi. He left with a renewed sense of the vigilance necessary to maintain peace and justice in his country.
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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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