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Thousands gather to mark 40 years of renewal

DETROIT – One of the world’s foremost Catholic preachers told a Feb. 16-18 gathering of more than 3,000 people involved in the charismatic renewal movement that they should be focusing more on the future than on the movement’s past. Even as they gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the charismatic movement, Capuchin Father Raniero...
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Each day matters

As the time clock turned into this new decade of 2010, it became more urgently clear to me that each day matters. God gives us this time to fulfill an assignment given and most importantly, God grants the grace for each one of us to move forward. God allows new energy and creative insights to...
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The Paschal Mystery

Her name was Jeanne Stewart. Her walk was different from the other kids. She threw her left leg out and her right hip seem to rise behind her as she labored with every step she took. The left leg was thinner then her right, and her exaggerated limp made walking a struggle. It was 1950,...
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Haitian archbishop who died in quake portrayed as a humble man

WASHINGTON – Haitian Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot was known as a humble man who was close to the poor in the Archdiocese of Port-au-Prince.
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Why Catholic? Journey through the Catechism

At the turn of the New Year, there was much excitement around my home. It seems that TIME magazine had declared me their Person of the Year. And, God bless them, TIME did the same for you. And you. And you as well.
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Maryvale senior reaches rare heights

Lacey Shuman soars where few girls in Maryland have ever gone.
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Parishioner reaches out to poor and lonely

Tony DeLuca knows what it’s like to be broke. Twelve years ago, he was laid off from a vending company and didn’t know how he would make his mortgage payment. That’s when a friend suggested he call his home parish of St. Dominic in Hamilton where his sons served as altar boys. Through St. Dominic’s...
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Archdiocese removes priest over allegations of sexual misconduct from 1980s

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has learned of three allegations of sexual misconduct against Father John Wielebski, 62, pastor at Resurrection of Our Lord Church in Laurel. All of the allegations are related to acts which allegedly occurred in the mid-late 1980s while he was serving at St. Dominic Church, Baltimore, and the Monsignor Clare J....
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U.S. urged to stop Marianas trafficking

WASHINGTON – A Filipina forced into the sex trade and raped hours after her arrival in the Northern Mariana Islands appealed to U.S. senators to change immigration and labor laws in the commonwealth. “I know there are other women out in the (Mariana Islands) community like me,” Kayleen Entena said in her Feb. 8 testimony...
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Daughter’s invitation to the Catholic faith endures

When Elise Buckner turned 16 in 1976, she wanted a unique birthday gift. She didn’t pine for a car or a big party. Instead, she asked her parents, Fran and Lawrence Cornwell, to become Catholic.
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Electronic giving makes donating to church easy

More parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore are turning to a relatively new way of encouraging parishioners to donate to their church: electronic giving. Instead of using weekly envelopes, parishioners agree to have a set amount of money transferred automatically from their checking or savings account to their parish. Some donors choose to have their...
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Magliano correctly invokes subsidiarity

Inviting Catholics to support health care reform, Tony Magliano (CR, Dec. 10) correctly invoked the principle of subsidiarity.
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