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January 19, 2012

Curley’s slow starter readies for fast finish

Archbishop Curley senior Alex Waldt aspires to a high finish at the Maryland Interscholastic Athletic Association cross country championships, but athletic excellence was hardly forecast for him three years ago.

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January 19, 2012

Disparate sources, unconditional love

So what do Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu and Despina Siskos have in common? They both discovered that unconditional love is the way to joy.

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January 19, 2012

Loss of Language, Loss of Catholic Identity?

This past August, an Associated Press-Univision poll found that “younger Latinos, as well as those who speak more English than Spanish, are much less likely to identify as Catholics than older Hispanics who mostly speak Spanish.” The article affirmed a highly visible reality among our Latino youths across the country. However, seeing the data was...

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January 19, 2012

St. Louis School honors spark fond memories

What a wonderful institution St. Louis School in Clarksville is – to be named a Blue Ribbon School (CR, Sept. 16) and to have Linda Wilson as a longtime teacher. Wilson is an extraordinary elementary school teacher, as her legion of former and current students will attest.

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January 19, 2012

Kentucky execution stayed; advocates try to block Virginia execution

WASHINGTON – The execution of a death-row inmate in Kentucky remained on hold indefinitely after a Kentucky judge stopped it over questions raised about the man’s below-average mental abilities and possible problems with the state’s execution process.

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January 19, 2012

Golden jubilee a “new beginning” for St. Thomas More Parish

St. Thomas More concluded its 50th anniversary with a closing liturgy and banquet Sept. 19. If you listen to parishioners and church leaders, however, things are just getting started at the parish in northeast Baltimore.

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January 19, 2012

Bishops urge HHS not to mandate contraception, sterilization coverage

WASHINGTON – Two officials of the U.S. bishops’ Office of General Counsel have told the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that it should not mandate that group and individual health plans include coverage of contraception or sterilization as part of what the federal agency considers preventive care for women.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican bank head named in money-laundering probe

VATICAN CITY – The president of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, has been placed under investigation by Italian magistrates in a money-laundering probe, the Italian state television RAI reported.

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