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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.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa – The Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference condemned a police raid on a Johannesburg Methodist church that houses more than 1,300 refugees, mostly from Zimbabwe.

The Oblate Sisters of Providence in Baltimore have renewed their commitment to eradicate racism. The Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Monroe, Mich., Immaculata and Scranton, Pa., and the Oblates condemned the sin of racism in a January statement.

Winter is hard on the homeless. But the youth group at St. Charles Borromeo, Pikesville, will make it a little easier with their “B-More Warm” project. They’ll collect gently used coats, hats, scarves, gloves and blankets for the homeless. That old coat taking up room in your closet might be a lifesaver for someone else.