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January 19, 2012

Mount offers outlets for young athletes of all seasons

Soccer, lacrosse and basketball players in middle school and high school can explore the Mount Saint Mary’s University campus while they are focusing on their lacrosse, basketball and soccer skills this summer.
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Special camps address needs of special campers

While Maryland’s school systems have a variety of educational programs for students with special needs throughout the school year, many parents struggle to find something enriching come summer.
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Baseball star wants to start Baltimore bereavement camp

Virtually nothing has been guaranteed to Jamie Moyer during his two-and-half decades in Major League Baseball.
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Camps run the gamut for youths

There is no shortage of summer fun for children around the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Looking to the nearest recreation council, nature center, or museum can bring to light camps offering anything from outdoor sporting activities and arts and crafts to the experience of being studio artists or environmentalists.
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Each day matters

As the time clock turned into this new decade of 2010, it became more urgently clear to me that each day matters. God gives us this time to fulfill an assignment given and most importantly, God grants the grace for each one of us to move forward. God allows new energy and creative insights to...
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Lord, please don’t hear this prayer – yet again

This past Dec. 28, I was jolted out of my morning fog at 8 a.m. Mass when the deacon offered this petition:
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Tips to help Social Security treat others with kindness, respect

This is a true story. A couple of weeks ago I went to the Social Security Office on West Road in Towson to apply for Social Security and Medicare. I was told that I had to apply a few months before or after my 65th birthday on March 1. (Subsequently I have learned that I...
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Agencies boost effort to help Haitians injured, left homeless by quake

WASHINGTON – Facing a growing humanitarian crisis after the largest earthquake in Haiti in two centuries, Catholic aid agencies and world governments were boosting efforts to respond to the needs of hundreds of thousands of injured and homeless.
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U.S. eases ways Haitians may stay in country; flow of orphans expected

WASHINGTON – With Haitians who survived the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake beginning to look for new places to live, the U.S. is easing immigration restrictions for some Haitians, including those who were here illegally before the quake and orphans.
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Humanity at its Best

Haiti! As horrendous a human disaster as can be imagined! Immediately and inevitably, the cry is raised. Why? How could a good and loving God permit such unspeakable suffering?
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Relief for Haiti requires bold initiative

On a good day, Haitians have a tough life. In a country of 9 million people, where an estimated 90 percent live in poverty, life is gritty. About a fifth of the population lives in Port-au-Prince, the nation’s capital, and the surrounding area.
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Quake leaves Haitian church mourning loss of religious young and old

WASHINGTON – As they help Haitians rebuild destroyed homes and mourn lost relatives, Catholic Church workers in Haiti are grieving for members of their own “families” killed or severely injured in the magnitude 7 earthquake Jan. 12.
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