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The Good Samaritan Hospital Auxiliary celebrated its 35th anniversary on Feb. 6. During those 35 years, the auxiliary for the Baltimore hospital has raised more than $4.6 million dollars, which have been used to improve patient care at Good Samaritan. With just 14 members when it started in 1973, the auxiliary has grown to include more than 250 members. In 1974 they raised $4,323; now they raise about $260,000 each year.

The news one reads in this present day is inundated with so much of what is wrong in our society. But I would like to share a story about Cub Scout Pack 1111 out of St. Augustine’s Church in Elkridge which I found to be so uplifting.

I would expect The Catholic Review, as a Catholic newspaper, to be more interested in how one can improve his or her soul. Writing about and almost glamorizing plastic surgery (CR, Feb. 7) is not a religious topic and has nothing to do with salvation. I don’t think our Lord would ever support such trivial vanities outside of an accident or burns, ect. Let’s focus on the soul.

It has been a banner year for the Aqua Dons of Loyola Blakefield. Starting with a 100-mile swim in honor of the late Staff Sgt. Joseph F. Curreri, a 1998 graduate of the Towson school and founder of the charity swim, the Dons unfolded an undefeated regular league season in the MIAA A Conference. Continuing on, the Dons landed top honors at the National Catholics in late January and most recently, secured their 15th consecutive MIAA/MSA Swimming Championship on Feb. 9 at McDonogh School.

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Lebanon’s Maronite Catholic cardinal called for the mending of Lebanese-Syrian relations “for the welfare of both countries.”

Father Charles Sikorsky, L.C., an alumnus of Calvert Hall College High School in Towson, was inaugurated president of The Institute for the Psychological Sciences in Northern Virginia in a Feb. 9 Mass and ceremony at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. Father Sikorsky is the institute’s third president.

Urging state lawmakers to show sensitivity and compassion toward immigrants, the Maryland Catholic Conference is raising concerns about several immigration-related bills it believes may unfairly target undocumented workers.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI has reformulated a Good Friday prayer for the conversion of Jews, removing language about the “blindness” of the Jews but preserving a call for their conversion.