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Fitness finds its way into parents’ lives

Even before starting a family, Barry and Teresa Stitz led an active lifestyle. Eight years after the birth of the first of their three boys, the St. Joseph, Fullerton, parishioners still make health and fitness a priority in their family.

Incorporating exercise leads to healthier outlook for parents

People, Places, & Things

Students and staff at Mother Seton School, Emmitsburg, will enjoy cooler building temperatures thanks to Jeff Wivell who helped Jake Ford install a replacement air conditioner in the Media Center using a forklift. Mr. Wivell actively volunteers in the school though his childre

Bishop Madden on commission studying death penalty

Bishop Denis J. Madden, urban vicar of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and Kirk Noble Bloodsworth, who converted to the Catholic faith while on death row for a murder conviction that was later overturned, were among 23 men and women appointed to the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment July 10 in Annapolis.

Popes, Power, and World Politics: From Leo XIII to Benedict XVI

Pope Pius IX died in 1878. The longest-reigning pope in history spent the last eight years of his pontificate as the self-styled “prisoner of the Vatican, as the anticlerical forces of Italian reunification had incorporated the ancient Papal States into the new Kingdom of Italy. (Pius had instructed his army to fire one volley, “for honor,” and then surrender their hopeless cause.) When Pius died, fears of foreign political interference in the election of a new pope led Britain’s Cardinal Henry Edward Manning to suggest that the conclave be held in Malta, under the protective guns of the Royal Navy.

Students awarded Knott scholarships

Knott Scholarship Funds announced the winners of its 2008 scholarship competition, funded by the Marion Burk Knott Scholarship Fund and the Marion I. and Henry J. Knott Scholarship Fund.

Text of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks to U.S. bishops

WASHINGTON – Here is the Vatican text of Pope Benedict XVI’s remarks to the U.S. bishops at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception:

Jump-start your garden with spring maintenance

Gardeners who do a little preparation now will be rewarded in a few weeks with a healthy, vibrant garden.

Peter and the Call of the Gentiles

The work that is traditionally called “The Acts of the Apostles,” could really be called “The Acts of the Holy Spirit.” In this, his second volume, St. Luke continues to recount “all that Jesus did and taught,” but now he is recounting how Our Lord Jesus Christ accomplished his work through his Holy Spirit directing the Apostles and the early Church. How often do we read phrases such as “It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and ourselves” (Acts 15:28); “they had been prevented by the Holy Spirit from preaching the message in the province of Asia… they tried to go into the Bithynia but the Spirit of Jesus did not allow them” (Acts 16:6-7).

Winter sports all-stars named

The following athletes have been named 2007-2008 winter sports all-stars by the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association

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