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January 19, 2012

Haitians cross Dominican border to escape the misery of dire poverty

OUANAMINTHE, Haiti – During the afternoons before market days, strangers begin showing up in town. Twice a week, like clockwork.

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January 19, 2012

Human race machine alters image

It’s impossible to change one’s race, but for a short time, students at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, were able to view themselves differently. Using the Human Race Machine, which the university hosted for five days, students were able to change their faces into six different races, mapped from their own images.

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January 19, 2012

Kirsten Frank is ‘iron woman’ of Spalding soccer

She’s known as the “iron woman” of Archbishop Spalding soccer.

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January 19, 2012

Sister Annella has a heart for history of Mercy

Do not make the mistake of calling Sister Annella Martin, R.S.M., a former nurse. Although she’s been a nun for 50 years now, the Waverly native has not gone far from her roots as a medical ward nurse at Mercy Hospital in the 1950s, a position she held for seven years after graduating from Seton...

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January 19, 2012

Reconcilable differences: The church reaches out to modern arts

VATICAN CITY – Once made in heaven, the marriage between art and the church has long been on the skids.

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January 19, 2012

Five parishes in Anne Arundel plan for priest shortage

For a cluster of five parishes in northern Anne Arundel County, ironically, the future is now. The staffs of Church of the Crucifixion, Glen Burnie; Holy Trinity, Glen Burnie; St. Philip Neri, Linthicum Heights; Church of the Good Shepherd, Glen Burnie; and St. Bernadette, Severn, are in the final months of a lengthy planning process...

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January 19, 2012

Promise to God brings Cathedral of Mary Our Queen to life

When the Great Baltimore Fire ripped through the city's downtown central business district on a cold February day in 1904, Thomas J. O'Neill sought divine intervention.

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January 19, 2012

Sister Helen Prejean calls on Md. to end death penalty

Standing beneath a large crucifix in the sanctuary of St. Pius X in Rodgers Forge, Sister Helen Prejean, C.S.J., stretched out her arms and intently fixed her gaze on the hundreds of people who filled the pews Sept. 20.

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January 19, 2012

Schools mergers to be announced in March

Parish and school leaders were told Oct. 27 and 28 by Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett that the Archdiocese of Baltimore would be announcing school consolidations in March 2010.

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January 19, 2012

Mass celebrated on streets near shootings

CHICAGO – Violence can happen anywhere. But when Israel Morales, a neighborhood organizer and parishioner at St. Nicholas of Tolentine Parish on Chicago’s Southwest Side, was gunned down this summer near the church, community members decided they had to do something. The first thing they did was have a Mass outside, near where Morales was...

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January 19, 2012

Parishes celebrate feasts of All Saints, All Souls

Across the Archdiocese of Baltimore, parishes will mark All Saints’ Day Nov. 1 and Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed (All Souls’ Day), Nov. 2.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore priest celebrates Mass for Jets players

Before the Baltimore Ravens faced the New York Jets Sept. 16, a Baltimore City priest celebrated Mass for the visiting team.

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