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The vaults at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg will be opened this week and the historic chalices used at Mass will be brought out in honor of the school’s 200th anniversary. The Mount was founded in 1808 by French émigré priest Father John DuBois who picked Emmitsburg as his location for a Catholic university and seminary.

VATICAN CITY – Accusing the Vatican of manipulating entries on Wikipedia, a Web site billed as an encyclopedia that anyone can contribute to or edit, “lacks any seriousness and any logic,” the Vatican spokesman said.

WASHINGTON – Two years after Hurricane Katrina, Catholic schools and colleges in the Gulf Coast region are recovering, but enrollment figures have still not been restored to what they were prior to the storm. At Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans, which was severely damaged by floodwaters from the breached levees following Katrina, school officials anticipate for the 2007-08 school year an overall enrollment of 3,100 students, including students in the College of Pharmacy and graduate students.

DILI, East Timor – Officials of the Diocese of Baucau have expressed dismay over the rape of girls at a convent and the burning of church property following the announcement of the appointment of East Timor’s new prime minister. Father Francisco Pinheiro da Silva, vicar general of the Baucau Diocese, told the Asian church news agency UCA News that unidentified men raped about nine girls – one of them only 8 years old and the others 15-17 – at around 2 a.m. Aug. 10 in the Canossian convent in Baucau.

My family and I were appalled by the offensive cartoon (CR, July 26).

One month ago, the priest at our parish addressed the congregation on the clothes worn to Mass and their “rude manners” in church.

The fourth annual Knights of Columbus 10K run and one-mile fun walk and the kids’have fun run sponsored by the St. Louis the King Knights of Columbus, will be held Sept. 1 at 8 a.m. at the Shrine of St. Anthony, 12290 Folly Quarter Road in Ellicott City.

The Catholic Daughters of the Americas’ Court Infant Jesus of Prague of Woodlawn, has been supporting a 38-year-old seminarian who was recently ordained.

Cumberland native Sister Dolores Hudson, O.S.U., was one of 22 Ursuline Sisters who celebrated 50 years as an Ursuline Sister of Louisville, Ken.

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Doris Flynn, I.H.M., was offered Aug. 7 at Our Lady of Peace Residence in Pennsylvania. Sister Mary Doris died Aug. 4. She was 87.

CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy – Too much wealth and greed could “seriously compromise” one’s salvation, Pope Benedict XVI said, adding that the real treasure humanity should strive for is Christ.