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There’s not a lot of frill or fluff that comes along with Pat Clatchey, Mount St. Joseph High School’s longtime head basketball coach.

St. Vincent’s Center helps one girl gain a family

Ever since she was a baby, her mother beat her. Involved with drugs, her mother would leave her unattended, even as an infant and toddler. Sometimes she took the child to bars. She was just 9 when her mother was imprisoned for beating her. Her biological father was dead.

Concert at basilica to benefit Catholic Charities program

Music for the season will fill the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, Dec. 13 as Catholic Charities presents “1st Christmas Festival at the Basilica of the Assumption.”

Giving in to lust hurts other people, says papal preacher

VATICAN CITY – Giving in to lust hurts both the individual and other people, the preacher of the papal household told Pope Benedict XVI and top Vatican officials.

Will director take Vatican Museums far from crowd?

VATICAN CITY – Perhaps even more than Michelangelo’s frescoes or the statue of Laocoon, the discouragingly long entrance line – often stretching half a mile – has become the modern emblem of the Vatican Museums.

Catholic Iraqi refugees arrive, welcomed by Maronite parish

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Following years of persecution and not being able to attend Mass because of the threat of terrorism, Huzni Hermez and his family left their war-torn homeland of Iraq and found a place where they could freely practice their Catholic faith.

Writers Suzanne Molino Singleton (left) and Nancy Menefee Jackson explore the advantages and disadvantages of high school sports’ schedules.(CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)|

Two writers duke it out on the subject of school sports

Commentary

Catholic Review writer and parent Nancy Menefee Jackson, who volunteers as an assistant JV coach, thinks school sports practices are essential and recognizes the need for practices and games during holiday breaks. Catholic Review writer and parent Suzanne Molino Singleton thinks the opposite – free time is family time when kids deserve a break from school and the rigorous schedule it offers.

It’s curtains for IND senior stage managers

One objective seniors Mara Wild and Melanie Rae want to carry through before they graduate from the Institute of Notre Dame, Baltimore, is to upgrade the 11-year-old black onstage traveling curtains in the school auditorium. They have sewn holes in the curtains so many times, they were told to stop because repairs were obvious.

Caroline Center given Network 2000 awards grant

Network 2000, a Maryland organization promoting the advancement of women in business, awarded grants to two local programs last month during its annual Women of Excellence luncheon.

Recovery continues for survivor of Wisconsin shooting

PICKEREL, Wis. – Charlie Neitzel’s passion for working on automobiles helped land him a job this year at Northern Fiber Works in Crandon, where he built fiberglass race truck parts. “I like building stuff with my hands,” said Neitzel, 21.

Catholic students help survivors of cyclone in Bangladesh

DHAKA, Bangladesh – After a day of trudging through the debris of wrecked homes handing out relief coupons to survivors of the recent cyclone, the president of the Bangladesh Catholic Students’ Movement was tired.

Our Lady of Guadalupe called ‘Mother Without Borders’