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Small miracles happen at beatification celebrations, pilgrims say

VATICAN CITY - Blessed Pope John Paul II worked a number of miracles at his beatification, some pilgrims said.
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New Year’s Eve interfaith service set

Christians, Jews and Muslims will come together at St. Ignatius, Baltimore, for its 16th annual New Year’s Eve interfaith service.
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Parish explores ways to help veterans

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Members of St. Bernard Parish in St. Paul are exploring how their faith community can best contribute to a statewide campaign designed to aid soldiers making the transition from serving in Iraq and Afghanistan to being back home with their families.
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Let power of Christ’s resurrection transform our lives

As he was being wheeled out of the hospital room for one more test, he said to his wife, “I don’t want to die.” Despite her tears and prayers, he did die.
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Daughters of Charity celebrate yearlong 2009 bicentennial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton

In a yearlong celebration titled The Seton Legacy of Charity, the Daughters of Charity, Emmitsburg province, will kick off the bicentennial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Jan. 4, 2009.
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Sailors poised for another championship run

Players tend to take their lead from the coach. At least that’s the way Duane Verderaime sees it. “Every coach has a different approach,” said Verderaime, head field hockey coach for Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville.
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Faith-filled surfer inspires Hollywood star, director

SAN DIEGO – When Dennis Quaid agreed to star in the new film “Soul Surfer,” it represented a career first: the only time the actor had ever accepted a role before reading the script.
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Minnesota bishops urge ‘compassionate dialogue’ on immigration reform

ST. PAUL, Minn. – Four years ago, Carmen Dean couldn’t have imagined the crowd that would fill her church, Risen Savior in Burnsville, to celebrate the Dec. 12 feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, patroness of the Americas.
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Catholic center works to clean up sports

A Catholic sports association has partnered with a once-scandal-plagued Italian soccer team in an effort to help clean up sports.
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Easter mystery: The innocent dies so the guilty live

There’s a story told of a small town prosecuting attorney calling his first witness to the stand in a trial. She was an elderly, grandmotherly woman. He approached her and asked: “Mrs. Jones, do you know me?”
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Good Samaritan goes tobacco free

The campus of Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, a member of MedStar Health, Inc., is tobacco-free effective Nov. 20. In an effort to be a model of healthy behavior, and for the safety and well-being of patients, employees and visitors, tobacco products have been banned from all MedStar locations on a date coinciding with the national...
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Initiative alerts women to sneaky nature of heart disease

Women shop pink to support breast cancer research but don’t realize that heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women.
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