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The murder of a Loyola College in Maryland sophomore, along with her three family members, has sent the school’s campus reeling.

Extending a sense of welcome to immigrants was at the top of the agenda for more than 40 heads of women’s and men’s religious congregations who attended the April 20 Forum of Major Superiors.

WASHINGTON – Led by a coalition of more than a dozen Catholic organizations, religious communities are ramping up efforts to ensure that the legislative debate on climate change beginning April 22 in Congress will not overlook the world’s poorest and most vulnerable people.

Final exam of the semester. Melissa hands me her exam. Everyone else has left. She pauses, looks at me with glistening eyes, and blurts out “I don’t know how to thank you. Your class has changed me forever.”

This past summer I had the opportunity to make my annual retreat at the Carmelite Monastery in Towson. The day before starting my retreat, I gave a lecture on the founding of the Oblate Sisters of Providence to the Auxiliary Society of St. Martin’s Home for the Elderly. By a strange coincidence or rather by the workings of providence, these three institutions, many years ago, were located just blocks from each other. In fact, the area was a haven of Catholic institutions.

I believe it was Dante who referred to Luke as “the scribe of God’s gentleness.” In the garden of Gethsemene, when Jesus is praying before his execution and sweating blood, only Luke’s Gospel has an angel come to comfort him. In our darkest hours, God will send angels to us to comfort us.

JERUSALEM – Less than three weeks before Pope Benedict XVI’s pilgrimage to Israel and the Palestinian territories, many issues remained unresolved.