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Churches working to ensure everyone is counted in 2010 US census

WASHINGTON – Churches have a crucial role to play in ensuring that everyone is counted on Census Day 2010, April 1.
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New principal appointed to Seton Keough

Dennis Meehan, a 22-year principal of Bishop Ludden High School in Syracuse, N.Y., has been appointed by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as principal of The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, effective in July. Mr. Meehan, who was chosen by a five-member search committee of experienced educators in the Baltimore area, succeeds Dr. B. Curtis Turner,...
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Bishops respond to Rep. Kennedy’s criticism of health care stance

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., about the U.S. bishops’ role in the health reform debate.
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Conference examines Homeland Security’s handling of immigration

WASHINGTON – Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was created as an umbrella agency, its handling of immigration-related situations came in for harsh criticism at an immigration law and policy conference May 20.
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Bishop criticizes ‘slavishly literal’ English translation of missal

WASHINGTON – Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ liturgy committee, sharply criticized what he called the “slavishly literal” translation into English of the new Roman Missal from the original Latin.
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‘The goal is God,’ says new Pittsburgh Symphony music director

PITTSBURGH – Manfred Honeck, the new music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, said he has come to understand how God has worked in his life and led him to where he is.
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Loyola grad ready to become Paulist priest

Tom Gibbons’ journey into the Paulist religious community began with a broken video camera.
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YWCA leadership award presented to college president

Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.
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Mass will honor retired priests

Father Salvatore Livigni retired from active ministry four years ago, but you’d never know it from his schedule.
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Minister apologizes to Catholics; some question if politics behind it

WASHINGTON – After the Rev. John Hagee, a San Antonio televangelist, sent a letter to the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights apologizing for any comments he made “that Catholics have found hurtful,” the league’s president, William Donohue, said that “the case is closed.”
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Davis named Ravens coach of the week

Just two days after pulling off a gigantic upset of The Baltimore Sun’s No. 2 football team, Gilman, Calvert Hall’s Donald Davis was named High School Coach of the Week by the Baltimore Ravens Oct. 12.
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Israeli ambassador emphasizes ‘smoothing things up’ at Vatican

ROME – Israeli ambassadors to the Vatican have a tradition of being press-friendly, and Mordechay Lewy is no exception.
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