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School open house for city residents July 21

A Catholic school registration fair for Baltimore City residents will take place July 21 from 6-8 p.m. at the Catholic Center, on 320 Cathedral St. Representatives of city Catholic schools will be present to answer questions and enroll students.
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Franciscans to repair Nazareth’s Annunciation grotto

JERUSALEM – The Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, which coordinates Christian pilgrimage sites, will close the grotto of the Basilica of the Annunciation for four months for conservation work on the grotto’s rock.
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Priest leads group in cycling journey to raise awareness of poverty

WASHINGTON – Jesuit Father Matthew Ruhl is cycling across America with a team of 11 to bring awareness to the issue of poverty and help combat it.
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Speed stacking club increases hand-eye coordination in kids

The fifth-grader placed his small hands on each side of the timer joined to the oblong blue rubber StackMat on the table. When he lifted them, the numerals rapidly ascended as Colin McCabe’s hands skillfully handled a dozen plastic blue cups. He up-stacked. He down-stacked. After 15.98 seconds he returned his hands to the StackMat...
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Although some stay home, many Mexicans heed bishops’ calls to vote

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico – Bishop Antonio Gonzalez Sanchez of Ciudad Victoria cast a vote early July 4. He later urged others to do the same, despite the rampant violence in his home state of Tamaulipas where, six days earlier, the leading gubernatorial candidate, Rodolfo Torre Cantu, was assassinated.
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Indian reservation’s church destroyed in wildfires

SAN DIEGO – A Catholic church on an Indian reservation was one of the casualties of the ongoing wildfires that have hit Southern California.
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Judge says Wilmington parish money in investment fund part of abuse settlement

WASHINGTON – The Diocese of Wilmington, Del., plans to appeal a federal bankruptcy judge’s ruling that the funds deposited by parishes, schools and other Catholic entities into its investment fund are property of the diocese and subject to distribution to victims of clergy sexual abuse.
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Bishop Pelotte reflects on his recovery

GALLUP, N.M. – In a letter posted on the Diocese of Gallup Web site Oct. 18, Bishop Donald E. Pelotte spoke philosophically about his health problems after he was injured in a fall at his home July 23.
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Friends, family, recall woman of passion, strong faith and hope

Julie Kline Rybczynski was just days away from death when Monsignor Jay F. O’Connor came to anoint her at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
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BRAC families will ‘invade’ Maryland

Expect more people in the pews in 2011, thanks to the base realignment and closure (BRAC) initiative, which will bring an estimated 28,176 new households to Maryland. Business managers from Baltimore-area parishes and schools filled an Archdiocesan workshop Oct. 18 that featured speakers from Harford, Baltimore a
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Retired general tells religious leaders child soldiers are new weapon

WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Child soldiers have become the “new low-technology weapon” of today’s wars, said the retired Canadian general who led U.N. peacekeeping forces during the Rwandan genocide.
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Pole dies day before he was to be named cardinal

WARSAW, Poland – Retired Polish Bishop Ignacy Jez of Koszalin-Kolobrzeg, a Nazi-concentration-camp survivor, died just one day before he would have been named a cardinal.
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