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Americans United for Life supports legal challenge to sign law

Americans United for Life, a national pro-life group based in Washington, is offering support to pro-life pregnancy centers in an ongoing legal battle over a Baltimore law mandating the posting of signs at the centers.
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Bridal headwear offers options

While plenty of brides still opt for the traditional tiara, the once-lowly headband is adorning more and more brides.
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Vatican rep says countries must respect refugee rights

Countries must find better ways to respect human rights in their efforts to cope with the growing number of refugees and displaced people, said the Vatican’s representative to international agencies based in Geneva.
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Death penalty opponents need to push for life without parole

I really wish Tony Magliano would quit putting words in God’s mouth (CR, April 14). His article titled “The death penalty is not God’s penalty” ignores Acts 5:1-10, where Ananias and his wife Sapphira were put to death by the Holy Spirit for trying to perpetrate a skimming fraud on the Holy Spirit and the...
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New network launched to mobilize Catholics against death penalty

HARRISBURG, Pa. – The Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Death Penalty, launched Jan. 25 in Harrisburg, is not just another initiative of the bishops but instead represents lay Catholics at the grass-roots level “taking up the challenge” put forth in bishops’ documents, statements and actions over the past three decades.
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Catholic from Myanmar expresses agony

A Catholic woman from Myanmar living in Manila said she is agonizing over the violence erupting in her country as she watches the news reports.
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Theologian defends book in letter to bishops’ doctrine committee

WASHINGTON – Fordham University systematic theology professor Sister Elizabeth A. Johnson defended her 2007 book that recently came under harsh criticism from the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine, restating concerns that her work was “thoroughly misunderstood and consistently misrepresented” by the committee.
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Large number of Jesuit college alumni serving in 111th Congress

WASHINGTON – With a new president and members of the House and Senate sworn into office, officials of U.S. Jesuit colleges and universities have something to crow about, with a whopping 52 members of the 111th Congress who are alumni of their institutions.
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If I could save time in a capsule

Time is elusive. Humans are obsessed with it: we pass it, save it, waste it, wish it away, squander it, mark it, buy time, make time, kill time and run out of time. It’s all about time! Yet how do we mark and preserve time? One way is to create a time capsule to capture...
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Garden of Hope: Ellicott City parish honors childhoods lost

ELLICOTT CITY – Hope grows like a flower. It can spring spontaneously from the cracks of the pavement or the depths of tragedy with just the help of God’s gifts – sunlight, water and faith. More often, however, it is cultivated by human hands that supplement God’s gifts by preparing a place for it and...
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Stitz looks for more as Friars lack fire

The defending MIAA A Conference soccer champs, the Archbishop Curley High School Friars, kicked their 2007 season off on Aug. 31 with a 5-0 win over Bullis School to open the Adidas Soccer Challenge. From there, the Baltimore school’s Friars reeled off an impressive 10-0 overall record going into the Sept. 19 Alumni Cup against...
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