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Japanese gather in prayer to mark six months since multiple disasters

TOKYO – The church bell tolled at 2:46 p.m., marking six months since the March 11 earthquake and tsunami in eastern Japan.
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Confused by movie endorsement

I was surprised and confused by the advertisement for the movie “Knowing” (CR, April 2). I was concerned that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called it “a meditation on faith and family unity.” I saw it and was horrified. I saw it as a science fiction movie that tries to depict a potentially mentally...
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Pope calls on Christians to turn to Mary for building peace

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI called on Christians to turn to Mary, the mother of God, for help in being true friends of Jesus and courageous builders of peace.
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Inner Harbor site of 9/11 Memorial of Maryland

In late August 2010, Barbara Bozzuto and other Marylanders visited a hangar at John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens, N.Y.
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Cardinal Mahony says ‘enforcement-only’ immigration policy not humane

DETROIT – It was an event he witnessed while “still in grammar school” that helped shape Los Angeles Cardinal Roger M. Mahony’s concern for immigrants.
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Family members of artist visit her work at N.Y. seminary

HUNTINGTON, N.Y. – While multitudes of people see the art of muralist Hildreth Meiere at New York’s Radio City Music Hall and the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, a limited audience also gets to see her work up close at St. Mary’s High School in Manhasset and at Immaculate Conception Seminary in Huntington.
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Xavier University to collaborate with Catholic university in Haiti

NEW ORLEANS – The government of Qatar came to the rescue of Xavier University of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, and now the oil-rich Middle Eastern country is determined to do something similar for earthquake-ravaged Haiti.
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‘Our Voices Must be Heard’

Several weeks ago, I wrote in this column about the calculated steps taken by President Barack Obama and his administration to dismantle laws aimed at protecting life. Following his immediate actions authorizing the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortions overseas and stem-cell research here in the United States, the President is now preparing to...
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Second-grader wins Miracle Tie contest

Every book 7-year-old Luke Koehler has checked out from the library has been on how to draw something – dinosaurs, pyramids, people, you name it.
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Six generations of love

Entering Mount Providence chapel to begin the long walk to the altar, Oblate Sister of Providence Mary Alice Chineworth appeared as radiant as any young bride one has ever witnessed. Supported on the arms of her nephew and grandnephew, Sister Alice walked slowly, taking in the beautiful music, the smiling faces of the assembled and...
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IND students put on all-female version of famed musical

A moment of realization will wash over unsuspecting audience members as the curtain peels back on the Institute of Notre Dame’s staging of “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” April 3-5. Even though most will be aware they are in an all-girls institution, the natural thought would be a local male student would play the...
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Immigrants aren’t the enemy, priests say

CHICAGO – Responding to what they called the increasingly harsh political rhetoric directed at undocumented immigrants, Priests for Justice for Immigrants held a Dec. 18 press conference to mark International Migrants’ Day with a pastoral “invitation and challenge” to the people of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
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