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Students, parents boast about bill to politicians

About 500 Catholic and private school students, parents and teachers lobbied state officials March 4 with the hope of securing support for a crucial education bill.
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County churches work together to offer emergency help

You have to know where to look to see the poor in southern Anne Arundel County, an area better known for rolling horse farms and Washington ex-urbanites.
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Daughters of Charity to form new U.S. province

Four existing U.S. provinces of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul are merging into a single province to be known as the “Province of St. Louise.”
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Ignatian volunteers ‘find God in all things’

They mentor developmentally disabled adults, help poor people avoid foreclosure and teach homeless women how to reduce debt.
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What American Catholics can anticipate in 2008

WASHINGTON – Those who put stock in the expression “an idle brain is the devil’s workshop” can take heart that American Catholics won’t give the devil much to work with in a very busy 2008.
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Judge dismisses lawsuit against funding embryonic stem-cell research

WASHINGTON - Attorneys for two scientists who use only adult stem cells in their work said they were “weighing all of their options for appeal” after a Washington judge ruled July 27 that federal funding of embryonic stem-cell research may continue.
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Taizé pilgrimage helps deepen faith

As dozens of flickering candles gently illuminated the darkened church, hundreds of pilgrims reverently approached an icon of the crucifix laid out in the center aisle of St. Mary of the Assumption in Govans Feb. 27.
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Alfred Smith was first

Patricia Zapor’s CNS article (CR, Dec. 13) about Mitt Romney’s speech on religion and public life at the GHW Bush Library in College Station, Texas, contains a glaring omission.
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Lessons in having it all

Someone once wisely said, “Money can’t buy happiness, but we’re all willing to give it a second chance!”
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Vatican official to attend Holocaust memorial rededication in Boston

BRAINTREE, Mass. – The Vatican’s top official on Catholic-Jewish relations will attend a March 25 rededication of a Holocaust memorial menorah that symbolizes the close relationship between the Catholic and Jewish communities in Boston.
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Friends of detained Cameroonian fight his deportation

WORCESTER, Mass. – Friends of a Cameroonian Catholic who has been detained in a Massachusetts county jail and faces deportation fear he will be tortured or beaten if he is returned to his homeland.
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Cardinal criticizes panel’s call for contraceptives in all health plans

WASHINGTON – A U.S. cardinal expressed strong opposition July 19 to a recommendation that all health plans be required to cover any contraceptives approved by the Food and Drug Administration without a patient co-payment under the new health reform law.
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