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Iraq’s Chaldean refugees fleeing to Lebanon seek help from church

BEIRUT, Lebanon – Chaldean Catholic refugees who flee Iraq face an uncertain status in Lebanon and often seek help from the Catholic Church.
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Shooting at Virginia Tech ‘tremendously sad’

BLACKSBURG, Va. – The April 16 shooting spree at Virginia Tech that left at least 33 people dead is “tremendously sad,” said Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo of Richmond. In a phone interview just hours after the shootings, Teresa Volante, Catholic campus minister at Virginia Tech, said she had sent out an electronic notice that the...
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Mount de Sales grad is a renaissance woman

Mount de Sales graduate Madison Maguire is headed to West Point this summer.
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Impassioned support for life

Marching in Washington, D.C., or Annapolis are important ways to make your voice heard on life issues, but if you want to make a “powerful, impassioned and inspirational” difference, support your local pro-life pregnancy center. 
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Franciscan Center founder Sister Irene Marshiano, O.S.F., dies

A funeral Mass for Franciscan Sister Irene Marshiano, who founded the Franciscan Center In Baltimore, was offered Nov. 2.
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Charity begins at home: Pope visits Vatican shelter

VATICAN CITY – They welcomed him with a red paper garland, smiles and a few whispered words about themselves.
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Parish bingo fading away in one New York diocese, but some say it offers needed social outlet

ALBANY, N.Y. – It seems that the “bingo bubble” in many areas of the Albany Diocese has burst.
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Five weddings, two funerals, one inseparable couple

Bill and Norma ZarubaThe last time I visited with Bill and Norma Zaruba was April 18, at the first of five weddings my wife and I had the privilege to witness this year. The daughter of one of their nieces was being married. Attending that Mass at St. Athanasius
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Canonization of St. Jeanne Jugan in Rome carries great meaning for Little Sisters of the Poor

ROME – Walking into St. Peter’s Square Oct. 11 and seeing the huge portrait of St. Jeanne Jugan filled Mother Alice Marie Jones with a sense of thanks to God. Hanging from the façade of St. Peter’s Basilica, the tapestry portrayed the likeness of the foundress of Mother Alice Marie’s own Little Sisters of the...
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Archbishop Lori to Celebrate National Religious Liberty Mass at Basilica Saturday at 5:30pm

Mass will kick-off national initiative of Catholic Church aimed at promoting faith in public life, educating people on threats to religious liberty. Archbishop William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore and Chairman of the U.S. Bishops’ Ad hoc Committee for Religious Liberty, will celebrate the opening Mass for the Catholic Church’s national religious liberty initiative, Fortnight...
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God’s Great Gift

The Catholic Review Permit me to expand on my homily from Respect Life Sunday, as reported in last week’s account of that Mass in these pages. It was just a year ago this month when, through the mysterious, inscrutable providence of God, I stood in the pulpit of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen for...
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