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Dr. Valenti surprised with high honor

School Sister of Notre Dame Irene Pryle faked out Dr. Ronald J. Valenti in the best way possible at the 19th annual Teachers’ Awards Banquet, held March 18 at Martin’s West in Woodlawn.
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Filipino archbishop warns against big election spenders

MANILA, Philippines – Voters should not be easily swayed by politicians who spend excessively when campaigning for public office, said the archbishop of Manila.
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Delegates deny using BOAST as bargaining chip

Delegates James Malone Jr. and Steven DeBoy Sr. are denying reports they threatened to derail a business tax credit benefiting non-public and public schools as a way of pressuring Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien to keep open the “more successful” Catholic schools slated for closure.
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Gibbons’ community copes with consolidation plan

Christian Jacobs studied the class ring he had received just months ago, identifying him as a member of The Cardinal Gibbons School’s Class of 2011. “It’s for a year we’ll never have,” Jacobs said March 6. “This is a heartbreaker.”
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Pope’s brother apologizes to abuse victims at his former school

WARSAW, Poland – The brother of Pope Benedict XVI apologized to child victims of sexual abuse at his former school even though he said he was unaware of the alleged incidents.
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New report shows economic benefits of Catholic schools

A newly released report by the Sage Policy Group, Inc. has found that Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of Baltimore produce higher test scores, are more likely to graduate and are more likely to attend and graduate from college than their public school counterparts.
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Rockville Centre Diocese enacts plan to ensure its ‘financial health’

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – To “ensure the financial health” of the Rockville Centre Diocese for the future, the diocese has put in place a strategy to meet a number of fiscal challenges, said Bishop William F. Murphy.
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Canadians proud that one of their own will be canonized a saint

MONTREAL – Just 73 years after his death, Brother Andre Bessette will become the first Canadian-born man elevated to sainthood.
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Father Bayer, scholar-priest, dies

Father Edward J. Bayer, a scholar of moral theology and a former pastor who dedicated his retirement to teaching seminarians in New Guinea, died Feb. 18 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 79.
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Papal push could advance Catholic-Orthodox dialogue, bishop says

WASHINGTON – Although the 1995 encyclical “Ut Unum Sint” by Pope John Paul II helped with Catholic-Orthodox relations, more progress could be made with a nudge from the man currently occupying the chair of Peter, according to an Orthodox bishop who has been part of Catholic-Orthodox dialogues for more than a decade.
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Tens of thousands of Brazilian Catholics pick alternative to Carnival

SAO PAULO, Brazil – Tens of thousands of Brazilian Catholics did something different during the four days of Carnival. While their counterparts danced in the streets to the latest samba rhythm, these Catholics attended spiritual retreats.
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Pope condemns ‘plague’ of abortion in Romania, Moldova

VATICAN CITY – Even Catholic families in Romania and Moldova are falling victim “to the plagues of abortion, corruption, alcoholism and drug addiction, as well as birth control using methods contrary to the dignity of the human person,” Pope Benedict XVI said.
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