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Receiving chemotherapy by intravenous infusion can take between four and eight hours. That’s a long time to be sitting in a chair, not to mention the psychological aspect, so Dr. Mark Krasna, medical director of the Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, set out to find a chair that was both comfortable and comforting.

Dooriya Kane, Elizabeth Lelonek and Grace Kane collected and delivered more than 1,000 books for Sarah’s Hope Shelter and Resource Center. The Girl Scouts are candidates for the Girl Scouts of the United States of America’s “I Live My Faith” religious award, and collecting books was part of their project. Troops from the Perry Hall and Kingsville areas as well as St. Joseph, Fullerton, parish and school organizations added to the collection.

VATICAN CITY – The relics venerated as the crib the baby Jesus used in a Bethlehem grotto are in an alarming state of degradation, some church officials said.

The Sunday before Christmas, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien celebrated the 10:30 a.m. Mass at St. Margaret, Bel Air.

LIMA, Peru – Talking with neighbors in a small town in Ecuador one morning, Susana Nicoladi recalled a friend who immigrated into Spain while her husband stayed home with their children. He had an affair, she said, “and lost the children’s respect.”

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican official in charge of interreligious dialogue said he is confident a new level of dialogue with Muslims will take place in 2008.