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WASHINGTON – The Rev. Jim Wallis finds it unexpected and refreshing that the majority of “God talk” in this presidential election season has been among and about Democratic candidates and that the dialogue takes a broad view of what’s important to religiously motivated voters.

The Cardinal Gibbons School, home of Babe Ruth, has been turning heads this season in the MIAA A Conference baseball league.

One day after attending an April 24 White House summit on preventing faith-based schools from closing in the inner-city, Dr. Ronald J. Valenti, Baltimore superintendent of Catholic schools, welcomed a renewed proposal from President George W. Bush to establish a “Pell Grant for Kids.”

Mark Pacione fired his secretary – for 10 minutes. In that time, the archdiocese’s director of youth and young adult ministry honored secretary Susan Smith with a special award at The 54th Annual Youth and Young Adult Ministry Recognition Dinner April 24.

VATICAN CITY – Liturgical renewal launched by the Second Vatican Council is an “irreversible path” and has not been affected by Pope Benedict XVI’s concession on wider use of the Tridentine rite, a Vatican official said.

ASSISI, Italy – Assisi – the birthplace of St. Francis, saint of the poor – has instituted a ban on begging.

She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler, R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a teacher in 1961 and when she became principal in 1977.