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Deacon John “Jack” McKenna, back row, right, helped launch a youth basketball program at St. Clement I in Lansdowne. Its upper-grade team is shown in 1969, after a victory at the Sweet 16 tournament at Mount St. Joseph High School. His son, John Jr., is third from left in the back row. Tom Grace is third from right in the middle row. Grace’s brother, Mike, is far right in the front row. (Courtesy Madalen McKenna Kight)

St. Clement basketball reunion honors late deacon who never stopped giving to Lansdowne

Paul McMullen
April 3, 2019
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A basketball reunion for St. Clement I in Lansdowne will be held at a nearby gym, built by brothers who played for the late deacon who began the parish program in the mid-1960s.

Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri, secretary-general of the Synod of Bishops, holds Pope Francis' apostolic exhortation, "Christus Vivit" (Christ Lives), during a news conference for its presentation at the Vatican April 2, 2019. The document contains the pope's reflections on the 2018 Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment. (CNS photo/CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Church, world need the gifts, enthusiasm of young people, pope says

Cindy Wooden
April 3, 2019
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The life of a young person and the vocation to which God calls each one is “holy ground” that pastors and parents must respect, nurture and encourage, Pope Francis wrote in a new apostolic exhortation.

Calvert Hall College High School president, Christian Brother John Kane, and Loyola Blakefield president, Anthony I. Day, unveil the Turkey Bowl 100 anniversary logo during an April 1 press conference at Planit Advertising in Baltimore. Their respective schools will compete in the centennial game Thanksgiving Day at Johnny Unitas Field in Towson. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Calvert Hall, Loyola Blakefield men behind the logo add to community feel of 100th Turkey Bowl

Paul McMullen
April 2, 2019
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The coaches and presidents from Calvert Hall College High School and Loyola Blakefield echoed the point: the Turkey Bowl is about more than football.

Ron Myers, with the Catholic Community of St. Francis Xavier, Hunt Valley, lights a paschal candle at the March 30 Ministry Enrichment Gathering at the Delta Hotels Baltimore Hunt Valley. An estimated 300 people attended the conference. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore Archdiocese liturgical ministers gather for day of formation

Emily Rosenthal Alster
April 2, 2019
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A Ministry Enrichment Gathering, sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Office of Divine Worship and facilitated by Liturgy Training Publications of Chicago, attracted participants from approximately 26 parishes March 30.

Norman C. Francis, who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana for 47 years and has been a prominent voice in the civil rights movement for decades, will receive the University of Notre Dame's 2019 Laetare Medal at the school's graduation ceremony in Indiana May 19, 2019. He is pictured in an Oct. 14, 2014, photo. (CNS photo/Irving Johnson III, University of Louisiana)

Update: Norman Francis to receive Laetare Medal

Catholic News Service
April 2, 2019
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Norman C. Francis, who served as president of Xavier University of Louisiana for 47 years and has been a prominent voice in the civil rights movement for decades, will receive the University of Notre Dame’s 2019 Laetare Medal at the school’s graduation ceremony May 19.

A view of the Xingu River being flooded by the building of the Belo Monte hydroelectric dam in Pimental, Brazil, is shown in this Nov. 23, 2013, photo. The president of the Latin America Jesuit Conference said without the Amazon, "we all go under." (CNS photo/Paulo Santos, Reuters)

Jesuit: Without the Amazon, ‘we all go under’

Rhina Guidos
April 2, 2019
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At the start of a mid-March gathering at Georgetown University, organizers asked church leaders, activists and members of indigenous communities to think of a person they knew who had worked in defense of the environment and to call out his or her name.

Canadian Immaculate Conception Sister Marie-Paul Ross, pictured in this undated photo, has a Ph.D. in clinical sexology. Sister Ross said sexual immaturity and deviance are part of the sex abuse crisis the church faces. (CNS photo/Philippe Vaillancourt, Presence)

Canadian nun, sexologist: Catholics must increase their sexual maturity

Catholic News Service
April 2, 2019
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A Canadian nun with a Ph.D. in clinical sexology said the sex abuse crisis in the church does not mean “the end of faith” but rather “the end of a lack of formation and the end of deviance,” and a call to return to Jesus’ message of love.

Eileen Dickey prays over a caregiver’s hands during Holy Family Parish's fifth annual Pampering and Prayer Day for caregivers March 30 in Davidsonville. (Karen Sampson Hoffman/For the Review)

Davidsonville parish offers ‘pampering and prayer’ for caregivers

Karen Sampson Hoffman
April 1, 2019
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Sponsored by the Faith and Abilities ministry and supported by additional parish groups, the day brings together those who care for family members with illness or disability.

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