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January 19, 2012

Arab mayor’s invite to papal audience withdrawn after Israeli protest

JERUSALEM – An invitation for the controversial mayor of an Arab-Israeli village to a papal audience in Vatican City was withdrawn following protests by the Israeli minister of tourism.

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January 19, 2012

Trappists expand casket factory due to increased demand

PEOSTA, Iowa – For the craftsmen and artisans at New Melleray Abbey in Peosta, a relatively new ministry has expanded into a new state-of-the-art, 40,000-square-foot factory, almost five times larger than their previous facility.

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January 19, 2012

Teen chosen to perform NCYC theme song is grounded in her faith

INDIANAPOLIS - As she talked to the elementary school children, Francesca “Chessie” LaRosa could have focused on how she is scheduled to sing in front of 25,000 young people who are expected to come to Indianapolis in November for the 2011 National Catholic Youth Conference.

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January 19, 2012

Legislative Session Losers: MD Students

Last week marked the close of the 2009 session of the Maryland General Assembly, bringing with it cause for both celebration and some frustration as we contemplate the issues promoted by the Catholic Church in the public square.

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January 19, 2012

Jesuit calls his vocation ‘ground crew’ of the Church

Brother Jim Horan, S.J., likens likens his vocation as a Jesuit brother to the ground crew of an airline fleet.

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January 19, 2012

In centuries-old buildings, some Vatican workers have techie paradise

VATICAN CITY ¬ Looking at the centuries-old buildings and palaces, not many people would know that the Vatican has become a techie paradise, a wonderland of modern equipment and know-how.

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January 19, 2012

Mercy Sister Felicitas Powers, former archdiocesan archivist, dies at 89

Religious Sister of Mercy Felicitas Powers, former archivist of the Baltimore Archdiocese, died April 8. She was 89.

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January 19, 2012

Cardinal announces award for adult-stem-cell researchers

SYDNEY, Australia – Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has announced that his archdiocese will be awarding $100,000 (US$86,000) to support adult-stem-cell research by an Adelaide-based research team. The grant was won by Stan Gr

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January 19, 2012

Group asks church employees to submit evidence of abuse to court

ROME – A sex abuse victims’ advocacy group and a human rights’ organization called on all current and past Vatican and church employees to send any information about the clerical abuse of minors to the International Criminal Court.

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January 19, 2012

Judge Brown was a humble leader

As seems to be happening too often these days, Baltimore has lost another friend. Judge Roger Brown’s unexpected exit from this world on March 23, 2009, has left a gaping hole in not only Maryland’s legal community, but also in our region’s black Catholic community.

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January 19, 2012

Catholics called to be people of hope, says papal preacher

VATICAN CITY – Catholics are called to be people of hope and to demonstrate by their happiness the fact that they know God will provide, said the preacher of the papal household.

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January 19, 2012

In his homeland, pope to face growing secularism, some protests

VATICAN CITY – In the days leading to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to his homeland Sept. 22-25, German media were asking whether the pope would feel at home in the country he left 30 years ago.

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