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A couple of weeks ago, I asked employees of the Catholic Center and The Catholic Review to submit their ideas for what this column should be called with the promise of a personal cash prize ($100) for the chosen entry. I was both grateful and surprised at the enthusiastic response this “contest” evoked.

It’s a toss-up as to who can do pomp and circumstance best – the military or the Catholic church.

VATICAN CITY – Meeting members of a Lutheran-Catholic pilgrimage from Finland on the first day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, Pope Benedict XVI said the theological agreements reached in ecumenical dialogue should lead to concrete joint activities.

Before students are selected to attend The John Carroll School, Bel Air, they are strongly encouraged to spend at least a day at the Catholic high school to make sure it’s the right environment to continue their education.

VATICAN CITY – Amid an occasional chorus of moo, oink, baa and neigh, Cardinal Angelo Comastri blessed several dozen animals peacefully munching their lunch in St. Peter’s Square.

Bernard W. “Bernie” Warthen, 63, died Jan. 9 of undetermined causes. Mr. Warthen was the business manager for Mount de Sales Academy, Catonsville, a position he had held for more than two decades. His wife, Mary Jo Warthen, is the principal of Holy Family School, Randallstown, and a former principal at Holy Rosary School, Baltimore.