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The Feast of the Immaculate Conception falls on a Saturday this year – and, yes, Catholics are required to attend Mass.

A funeral Mass was offered for Sister Marie Joyce O’Keefe, O.S.F., on Nov. 29 at Assisi House in Aston, Pa. Sister Marie Joyce died on Nov. 23; she was 89.

LIMA, Peru – Peru’s Supreme Court convicted 10 former Cabinet ministers for their role in the events of April 5, 1992, when then-President Alberto Fujimori closed down Congress and took control of the judiciary.

A 2008 calendar that features photos from an African mission trip undertaken this summer by parishioners of the Archdiocese of Baltimore is available for sale. The proceeds will be used to help purchase a new ambulance for St. Elizabeth Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania.

WARSAW, Poland – A Polish bishop is suing a local newspaper after it accused him of informing for the communist-era secret police.

We read with great interest your article, “On the go in Govans,” in the Nov. 8 edition of The Catholic Review. This innovative partnership between St. Mary of the Assumption School and Loyola College is a win-win situation for both schools.

Up until the 21st Century, global warming was a cyclic thing resulting mostly from cosmic changes out of human control. There was a time for warming and a time for cooling. Now, according to Tony Magliano’s sources (CR, Nov 15), all of a sudden we are in a warming spiral that humans have caused and need to reverse.