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Lynn Taylor, head coach of the Notre Dame Preparatory, Towson, Blazers says that mental toughness is the key to one’s success in tennis, especially in the singles game. That theory was right on the money Sept. 18 when No. 1 singles player, senior Frances Hutton handily defeated her McDonogh School opponent, 6-4, 6-1 to contribute to the Blazers’ 5-0 win over the Eagles.

Pope John Paul II’s personal physician has vehemently denied an Italian doctor’s claim that the late pope refused nutritional support that would have prolonged his life.

Commemorating 100 years of their ancestors’ migration, Korean-American Catholic pilgrims filled the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception for the Sept. 22 dedication of two bas-reliefs that symbolize the permanence of their place in the Catholic Church

Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, usually is traditional, but the Sept. 23 afternoon Mass featured worshippers in aboriginal garb, the exuberant sound of drums and singing in the Tagalog language.

When Theresa Dowdall opened a Christmas gift given to her by her father a few years ago she received more than a material offering. The mother of three had in her possession an annotated sampling of her family’s past.

Time is elusive. Humans are obsessed with it: we pass it, save it, waste it, wish it away, squander it, mark it, buy time, make time, kill time and run out of time. It’s all about time! Yet how do we mark and preserve time? One way is to create a time capsule to capture a family’s era. I decided to create our family’s time capsule after covering a story about St. Margaret, Bel Air, opening a 30-year-old time capsule in January 2006 and sealing a new one. As they showed me the contents, I imagined what items I would select to place inside of my own time capsule.

Handouts to the poor are not enough; poverty must be tackled by overhauling social structures that deny people basic human rights, Pope Benedict XVI said at his weekly general audience.