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All Saints Sisters of the Poor to be ‘diocesan institute’

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will erect the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, a formerly Anglican women’s religious community based in Catonsville, as a Catholic diocesan institute during a 4:30 p.m. liturgy Nov. 1 at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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Catholic universities put potential speakers through vetting process

WASHINGTON – Commencement season has arrived and the controversy over President Barack Obama’s scheduled address at the University of Notre Dame’s May 17 graduation ceremony has drawn a spotlight onto the end-of-the-year festivities at Catholic colleges nationwide.
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Tilapia farm developed to bring nutrition, industry

VILLA FRANCIA, Dominican Republic – In regions of the Dominican Republic where food is scarce and farm work only nets $3 a day when it’s available, Food For The Poor is developing tilapia and agricultural centers to provide nourishment, industry and self-sufficiency.
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Poverty report perplexing

In “For U.S. Hispanics, poverty is growing little relief ahead” (CR, Oct. 13), Dennis Sadowski’s sympathetic report (CR, Oct 13) opened with, “Bundled against a gusty, cool autumn wind . . .”
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Alongside security wall, pope calls for courage to overcome barriers

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The wall. Pope Benedict XVI had to pass through a gate in Israel’s 26-foot-high security wall to get to Bethlehem to celebrate Mass May 13 near the birthplace of Jesus.
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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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Ordination, installation of new bishop fills Savannah cathedral

SAVANNAH, Ga. – With reverence, high ceremony, singing, prayer and applause, Conventual Franciscan father Gregory John Hartmayer was ordained and installed as the 14th bishop of Savannah.
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State handwriting champ comes from St. Thomas Aquinas

Each night, Dorothy Geathers sits down with her twin granddaughters, Candace and Claudaya Hood-Bey, and diligently watches them do their homework.
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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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Church addresses rising impact of Hispanics

COLUMBIA – Finding that they have common ground, the archdioceses of Baltimore and Washington held their annual Hispanic Ministry Convocation at St. John the Evangelist in Columbia Oct. 17.
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Priest removed from parish and radio ministries over tabloid photos

MIAMI – Father Alberto Cutie, administrator of St. Francis de Sales Parish in Miami Beach and general director and president of Pax Catholic Communications, was removed from his posts after photos of him with a woman on the beach were released by a tabloid magazine May 5.
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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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