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Towson Catholic High School’s 2008 homecoming queen, Ashley Ryan, participated in the 50th annual Liberty Bowl Parade Jan. 1 in Memphis, Tenn., as America’s homecoming queens represented St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

Rumors aside, FOCA legislation no threat to Catholic health care

WASHINGTON – Internet rumors to the contrary, no Catholic hospital in the United States is in danger of closing because of the Freedom of Choice Act.

Pope, Catholic leaders welcome election of new Russian patriarch

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said he learned “with joy” of the election of Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad – a prelate he has met three times – as the new patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Rabbi Klenicki, Christian-Jewish relations expert, dies at 78

MONROE TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Rabbi Leon Klenicki, a longtime Jewish voice on Catholic-Jewish relations, died Jan. 25 at his home in Monroe Township. He was 78 years old. No cause of death was immediately reported.

St. John couple share sweet passion as chocolatiers

Three words, “crazy about chocolate,” on a www.match.com profile was what ultimately linked Ben Hauser and Jenny Weber as business partners and spouses.

Don’t take it down

Seven months ago I was in Guadalajara, Mexico, packing my personal belongings on route to my new destination: Baltimore. For almost 10 years I had called Mexico my home, and now it was time to leave. Like the title song from U2 reads, a most difficult realization was to accept, “All that I couldn’t leave behind!”

Black History Month starts with celebrating family

We greet Black History Month 2009 celebrating the 20th anniversary of The National Day of Prayer for the African-American Family with new hope and the blessed assurance that “we’ve got something to celebrate.”

Young pastor takes helm in Ellicott City

When Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien concluded a special Jan. 25 Mass at St. Paul in Ellicott City, he announced to parishioners that it was time they receive a new pastor.

Getting an Answer on FOCA

I sent the following e-mail message to Sen. Mikulski on Nov. 13 using her Web site: “If the article (CR, Nov. 13) is accurate, the Freedom of Choice Act would prohibit medical providers from refusing to provide morally offensive services related to abortion. As you know many people believe abortion destroys life in the womb. Whatever your own personal beliefs are with regard to life in the womb, it seems completely incomprehensible to legislate that doctors, nurses and hospitals would be required to assist in a procedure they find so repulsive. If The Catholic Review article is misleading I’d like to hear the rebuttal arguments.”

Stop the Obama cheerleading

The Catholic Review is becoming much less a news review and much more of a weekly political cheerleading post.

Archdiocese to tighten budget by $1.5 million

Faced with declining investment values and unexpected emergency expenses, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Central Services suffered a $20.6 million loss last year.

Archbishop opens Catholic Schools Week with trip to Hagerstown