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Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services President Ken Hackett was named in October to the Millennium Challenge Corporation’s Board of Directors.

VATICAN CITY – The rule of law cannot be abandoned when dealing with terrorists, a Vatican official told the United Nations.

SAN FRANCISCO – Milwaukee-based Miller Brewing Co. has issued a formal apology for “the offense caused by the use of Miller brand logos on a poster promoting the Folsom Street Fair in San Francisco with an irreverent take on Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper.”

Something out of the ordinary happened during this fall’s revival at St. Gregory the Great, Baltimore. Attendance grew each day of the three-day revival, a distinct contrast from previous years, when participation diminished with each consecutive assembly.

SAO PAULO, Brazil – A court in the Brazilian state of Para upheld the prison sentence of Rayfran das Neves Sales, who was convicted of killing U.S. Sister Dorothy Stang in Brazil in February 2005.

I agree that it is disrespectful to stand on a U.S. flag (CR, Oct. 11), but it was a throw blanket. There are no grommets on the blanket to raise it on a flagpole. I guess if I have a throw blanket with the image of the Sacred Heart, I’m not allowed to stand on that either? It was a blanket. Let it go.

During the past 40 years, the Ecumenical Institute of Theology at St. Mary’s Seminary & University, Roland Park, has seen its enrollment more than quadruple and its current faculty represents several creeds.

The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians is holding a writing contest with cash prizes for both middle school and high school students. Public school, private school and home-schooled students in grades six, seven and eight are invited to write an essay between 500 and 1000 words on “Irish in the American Revolution.”

For the fourth consecutive year, Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville has been recognized by the Catholic High School Honor Roll as one of the “top 50” Catholic schools in the country – the only all-girls school in the nation to be included on the list four years in a row. For the third year, Mount de Sales Academy has been placed in the “Top 25” category for Catholic identity.