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Red Hot Mamas heat up Good Samaritan

The 100 ‘Red Hot Mamas’ who gather at Good Samaritan Hospital, Baltimore, one Wednesday each month know exactly what it’s like to feel the heat. That’s why the women find it helpful to come together for the monthly seminar which focuses on issues before, during and after menopause. The menopause seminars have become such a...
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Father Convey, public defender, dies at 91

A funeral Mass for Jesuit Father Edwin Hamilton Convey was offered Oct. 23 at Alumni Memorial Chapel on the Baltimore campus of Loyola University Maryland.
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Conference aims to improve evangelization

Organizers of the Aug. 23 Upon This Rock Evangelization Conference hope they can reinvigorate the faithful of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and beyond.
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Marylanders support replacing death penalty

By more than a 2-1 margin, Maryland voters support replacing the state’s death penalty with a life without parole prison sentence, according to the results of a poll commissioned by the Maryland Catholic Conference and released Feb. 28. While 56 percent of those surveyed said they support the death penalty, 61 percent said they believed...
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Web offers spiritual nourishment

The World Wide Web is full of sites that prey on human weakness. Yet there are also plenty of spiritually nourishing sites that help users grow in their faith or spend time in prayer or meditation.
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Mount St. Mary’s to host healing conference

International peace worker Arthur Romano, Holocaust survivor Nesse Godin, documentary film producer Martin Doblmeier and music therapist Dr. Deforia Lane will present keynote addresses March 12-16 at Mount St. Mary’s University, Emmitsburg, during the third annual Calling Conference.
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Bishop Madden, priests from Baltimore visit college in West Bank

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The newest building at Bethlehem University, completed in the year 2000 and appropriately called the Millennium Building, was struck by shells fired by the Israelis. Other parts of the campus were hit as well.
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Sisters of St. Francis celebrate jubilees

On June 22, more than 250 members of the Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia gathered in Our Lady of Angels Chapel in Aston, Pa., to celebrate the lives and service of 34 jubilarians.
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Grandmother walks parade rain or shine

While sitting in her cozy dining room with pictures and articles scattered across the table, Regina Curran, 81, reminisced about her many years of involvement in the St. Patrick’s Day parade in Baltimore City. Ms. Curran has been walking in the St. Patrick’s Day parade for more than 30 years, and this year will be...
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Synod members discuss threats to Christian survival in Middle East

VATICAN CITY – The survival of the Christian communities of the Middle East is threatened not only by violence and political repression, but also by the churches’ weakened sense of mission, failure to work ecumenically and loss of their traditional liturgical heritage, bishops told the special synod for the Middle East.
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Knights renew commitment to speaking out against anti-life lawmakers

QUEBEC CITY – The Knights of Columbus adopted resolutions Aug. 7 at their 126th annual convention in Quebec City renewing their commitment to speak out against elected government representatives who challenge life from conception to natural death.
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