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As Barbara Anderson prepares to begin her new role as pastoral life director of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Thurmont, and St. Anthony Shrine, Emmitsburg, the 51-year-old director of religious education said she is “honored and humbled to be asked to take on the responsibility” of leading the twinned Frederick County parishes.

UPDATED VATICAN CITY – In a long-awaited overture to disaffected Catholic traditionalists, Pope Benedict XVI relaxed restrictions on the use of the Tridentine Mass, the Latin-language liturgy that predates the Second Vatican Council.

In his letter, Michael Dausch (CR, June 28) angrily judges President Bush and dismisses the president’s principled stands on protecting human life, marriage and the family.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – A former Argentine police chaplain became the first Catholic priest on trial for human rights violations against leftist dissidents during Argentina’s “dirty war” in the 1970s.

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – After 13 years on the housekeeping staff at St. Thomas University in Miami Gardens, Livia Herrera saw her wages rise by almost $3 an hour in July.

SAN FRANCISCO – Leaders of San Francisco’s Catholic and Greek Orthodox communities urged their traditions to continue pursuing mutual understanding and unity, during an ecumenical “litany for peace.”

As the new girl at St. Rita School in Dundalk, Laura Klym timidly entered her first-grade classroom knowing most of her fellow classmates had established friendships from kindergarten and that finding kinship wouldn’t be an easy task.

Sister Barbara Furst, O.S.F., (formerly Sister Robert Catherine), a native of Baltimore, was awarded the Nostrum Ecclesiam Tempus Award, July 1, by the diocese of Trenton.

WASHINGTON – Dr. Anna Maria Izquierdo-Porrera knows firsthand that medical offices must be places on which patients can rely to receive quality health care when they need it and places to which they will want to return.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI was only one of hundreds of scholars making a rushed visit to the Vatican Library in late June and early July.