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Towson Catholic High School senior Brittani Perez carefully painted half the white masquerade mask in royal blue, paint specs spattered on her hands. The student’s mask was one of many to adorn a seven-foot Christmas tree which her art class entered in The Festival of the Trees competition over Thanksgiving weekend.

WASHINGTON – During the Christmas season, when Christmas displays and the public outcry against them get almost equal billing, the tiny postage stamp dares to push the envelope, so to speak.

WASHINGTON – To answer the question that is increasingly being asked of officials with the archdioceses of Washington and New York – and pretty much anyone else who works for the Catholic Church in the region – you can’t yet get tickets to any events during Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to those cities in April.

LONDON – The war in Iraq might have caused the end of Christianity in the country, said a Chaldean Catholic bishop.

VATICAN CITY – While lacking the media attention and the pomp of a papal conclave, the election of the superior general of the Jesuits, known as the black pope, has its own rigid rules and ritual.

VATICAN CITY – In an encyclical on Christian hope, Pope Benedict XVI said that, without faith in God, humanity lies at the mercy of ideologies that can lead to “the greatest forms of cruelty and violations of justice.” The pope warned that the modern age ha

JERUSALEM – Media in the Holy Land showered attention on the Middle East peace conference in Annapolis, Md., but Israelis and Palestinians, jaded from years of failed talks, were not getting their hopes up too high.

WASHINGTON – Henry J. Hyde, the former Republican congressman from Illinois whose name became synonymous with efforts to limit federal funding of abortion, died Nov. 29 at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.