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Campaign invites inactive Catholics to reconnect with their faith

WASHINGTON – This Lent and Easter “thousands of inactive Catholics” will go to church “and some will be open to an invitation to reconnect with their Catholic faith,” said a Paulist priest who is a leader in evangelization.
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Vaticanstate.va: Navigating the world’s smallest country

VATICAN CITY – Seven weeks after Pope Benedict XVI praised Vatican civil servants for their work in “our little state, from the most visible to the most hidden,” the state unveiled its own Web site.
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Tweet Catholic, flockNote.com unite Catholics online

WASHINGTON – Social media is becoming an increasingly important part of everyday life in the United States and around the world and Catholics are finding ways to make a unique mark on the social media world.
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Archdiocese to tighten budget by $1.5 million

Faced with declining investment values and unexpected emergency expenses, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Central Services suffered a $20.6 million loss last year.
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Speaker: Black worship should incorporate hip-hop, other styles

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Kevin Johnson had one hand on a piano keyboard as the other guided a room full of participants through seamless key changes from one gospel song to another.
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North Carolina church cancels Quran reading, plans interfaith dialogue

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A plan to allow for the reading of the Quran from the pulpit during a Mass at St. Peter Church in Charlotte June 26 has been canceled, with an interfaith dialogue planned for October instead.
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President is no model of holiness

I am a high school senior at a Catholic school. The article “Here comes the sun … across the mountaintop” by Ralph E. Moore Jr., (CR, Jan. 15) caused me great concern. President Obama is called a prophet. The biblical prophets were spokesmen for God, and supposed to be models of holiness. Are we to...
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President, Lady Bird Johnson had long association with Catholics

WASHINGTON – Lady Bird Johnson, an Episcopalian, died just after a Catholic priest finished reciting the litany of the saints with her family at her bedside in Austin, Texas.
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Neonatology on horizon for Hagerstown senior

Maria Jones was a fourth-grader at St. Mary School in Hagerstown when she saw a commercial for a neonatology hospital. Images of women helping newborn babies flashed on the screen and seared themselves into her heart.
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Vatican congregation reaffirms truth, oneness of Catholic Church

VATICAN CITY – In a brief document, the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation reaffirmed that the Catholic Church is the one, true church, even if elements of truth can be found in separated churches and communities.
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Church must find more effective ways to evangelize, says pope

VATICAN CITY – New evangelization means finding the most effective ways to proclaim the Gospel to a world that is either too distracted or too blind to see the divine, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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