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Newlyweds Anne Mathews and Sriram Manivannan of St. Joseph Parish in Cockeysville were sponsor and catechumen, respectively, at the Rite of Election at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland March 1. (Paul McMullen/CR STaff)

Path to Catholic faith winds from India through Western Maryland to Cockeysville

Paul McMullen
March 2, 2020
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Manivannan was among 121 catechumens and 234 candidates participating in the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion at the cathedral, where Archbishop William E. Lori presided. They represented more than half of the total who will be fully initiated or come into full communion with the church at the Easter Vigil,

Father Ernesto Cardenal, Nicaraguan poet and Reina Sofia Prize winner, listens to his assistant during a Feb. 16, 2017, meeting at his house in Managua, Nicaragua. Father Cardenal died March 1, 2020, at the age of 95. (CNS photo/Oswaldo Rivas, Reuters)

Father Ernesto Cardenal, poet and revolutionary, dies in Nicaragua

David Agren
March 2, 2020
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Father Ernesto Cardenal, the Nicaraguan poet and revolutionary whose political work earned him a public admonishment from St. John Paul II, died March 1 in the Nicaraguan capital of Managua. He was 95.

St. Frances Academy won its third straight Baltimore Catholic League tournament championship March 1 with an 81-65 victory over Mount St. Joseph. (Phil Surdel/Special to the Review)

One last time, Baldwin lifts St. Frances Academy to BCL title, 81-65, over Mount St. Joe 

Paul McMullen
March 1, 2020
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It was the Panthers’ third straight title and 10th overall, as another rough-and-tumble renewal of the area’s best rivalry brought the largest crowd of the winter to Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena. 

John Borelli, special assistant for Catholic identity and dialogue to President John J. DeGioia of Georgetown University in Washington, moderates a Feb. 25, 2020, panel on the celebration of St. John Henry Newman's life and writings at Georgetown. Also pictured are Jesuit Father John W. O'Malley, professor in Georgetown's theology department; the Rev. Mark Chapman, an Anglican priest, who a professor of the history of modern theology at the University of Oxford; and Frederick D. Aquino, a professor of theology and philosophy in the graduate school of theology at Abilene Christian University in Texas. (CNS photo/Rafael Suanes, courtesy Georgetown University)

Professor: St. John Henry Newman saw church, university as ‘inseparable’

Kurt Jensen
March 1, 2020
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Long after his death, now-St. John Henry Newman’s ideas found the world marching to them.

Asia Bibi, pictured in Paris Feb. 26, 2020, is seeking political asylum in France less than a year after fleeing Pakistan for the safety of Canada. The Catholic woman spent nearly a decade on death row after she was falsely accused of blasphemy. (CNS photo/Thomas Oswald, courtesy Aid to the Church in Need)

Pakistani woman who fled to Canada seeks political asylum in France

Simon Caldwell
February 27, 2020
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The Catholic mother, who spent nearly a decade on death row in Pakistan after she was falsely accused of blasphemy against Islam, wants to live closer to French writer Anne-Isabelle Tollet, who was influential in her fight for freedom and helped her to write her autobiography, “Enfin Libre” (Finally Free).

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