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Fourth-grader Michael Ehart, 9, of St. Margaret School, Bel Air, spelled his way to the top of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Spelling Bee May 16, becoming the youngest student ever to win the contest.

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Loyola College in Maryland took top honors for Maryland in the 2008 Mid-Atlantic RecycleMania competition, recycling more than 118,000 pounds of recycled waste to help bring the Mid-Atlantic region’s total to 7.7 million pounds.

As The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, settled into second place in the IAAM track and field championship May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, two Gator seniors bid farewell to an excellent high school career.

VATICAN CITY – If aliens exist, they may be a different life form that does not need Christ’s redemption, the Vatican’s chief astronomer said.

WORCESTER, Mass. – Assumption College in Worcester has received the largest donation in its 104-year history, a $4.2 million gift to support the school’s Catholic intellectual tradition.

As The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, settled into second place in the IAAM track and field championship May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson, two Gator seniors bid farewell to an excellent high school career.

The future of the Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union was among the topics discussed at the 97th annual archdiocesan convention May 18 at Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore.

VATICAN CITY – While bishops have an obligation to guide new lay movements and associations, they must take care not to suffocate them, Pope Benedict XVI said.