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January 19, 2012

Adoption a needed ministry

We just celebrated the feast of the Holy Family, and to some extent, this is a story of adoption. Our first adoption occurred Nov. 22, 2000. She arrived at the tender age of 4 months old because her mom, my niece, could no longer provide a caring and nurturing home for her children.
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January 19, 2012

Maryknoll announces student essay contest

Maryknoll announced the sponsorship of the 2007 Maryknoll Student Essay Contest for grades 6-12. Winners will receive nearly $3,000 in scholarship money, as well as coverage in “Maryknoll” magazine and on the Maryknoll Web site www.maryknoll.org/winners.
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January 19, 2012

Tanks, jets, automatic weapons: Scenario for conflict in Latin America

LIMA, Peru – As Latin American Catholics celebrated the start of the new year with World Peace Day, their countries’ leaders seemed to be preparing for war.
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January 19, 2012

Gambrills and Annapolis parishioners donate hair

Sitting on a booster seat in the Signatures hair salon in Annapolis, 4-year-old Caitlin Guenther watched herself stoically in the mirror as Patti Linkins gathered the girl’s lush, long locks into a pony tail and raised a pair of scissors. In a series of assertive snips, the hair stylist clipped 10-inches off the brunette’s soft...
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January 19, 2012

Franciscan Holy Land official is confident about movement toward peace

JERUSALEM – Although a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians may not be reached in 2010, Franciscan Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, said he believed there would be movement in that direction.
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January 19, 2012

El Salvador trip changes teens’ perspectives

The change in fortune for one family in the small village of Agua Caliente, El Salvador, is as concrete as the freshly poured cement floor and new roof of their home. For the Baltimore teens who worked on the decaying house, the personal transformations, though perhaps less tangible, were just as profound. Six Baltimore teens,...
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January 19, 2012

Singletary keeps Seton Keough near top

Seconds after Seton Keough won the Interscholastic Athletic Association of Maryland A Conference basketball championship last February, Amber Singletary looked at her coach, Jackie Boswell.
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January 19, 2012

Audit finds problems with San Diego parishes’ accounting

WASHINGTON – While much of an audit of the finances of the San Diego Diocese showed recordkeeping was above-board, it found some cases of parishes moving tens of thousands of dollars around at the time of bankruptcy filing – in ways that apparently violated diocesan policies.
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January 19, 2012

Ordeal strengthens faith of Mount de Sales teacher

The epiphany came around Thanksgiving. Colleen McDowell had reason to take stock. Her 2009 had been buffeted by a bout with cancer that had tested more than her physical health, shaking her independence, her routine and her self-admitted vanity.
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January 19, 2012

St. Ann parishioner donates kidney to father suffering from diabetes

One of the qualities that Pikesville resident Nia Wheeler has always admired about her father was his endless supply of energy. So, when his diabetes threatened to sap that oomph, the St. Ann, Baltimore, parishioner decided to furnish him with a healthy kidney.
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January 19, 2012

Health reform, Pope Benedict named top story, newsmaker of 2009

WASHINGTON – The debate over health care reform topped the religious news stories of 2009, and Pope Benedict XVI and President Barack Obama were again the top newsmakers, according to the annual poll conducted by Catholic News Service.
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January 19, 2012

Tuitions on the rise for Catholic high schools

Twenty-one Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore experienced tuition increases for the 2007-08 school year, with guardians paying an average of $641.76 extra for their teenagers to enjoy the educational opportunities provided on those campuses.
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