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January 19, 2012

As session closes, $2 million added for textbooks/technology

They didn’t get their much-sought business tax credit to help students and teachers in nonpublic and public schools, but leaders of the Maryland Catholic Conference (MCC) were elated to win an additional $2 million in state funding for nonreligious textbooks and technology in nonpublic schools.

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January 19, 2012

Catholics generally optimistic about church, Zogby poll finds

WASHINGTON – U.S. Catholics are generally optimistic about their church, according to the 2009 Le Moyne-Zogby Contemporary Catholic Trends survey released April 9.

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January 19, 2012

Indiana bishop urges Catholics not to participate in Obama protests

WASHINGTON – Calling the protests against President Barack Obama’s planned commencement speech at the University of Notre Dame “unseemly and unhelpful,” Bishop John M. D’Arcy of Fort Wayne-South Bend, Ind., advised Catholics not to attend such demonstrations.

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January 19, 2012

Easter is season of joy for Catholics

Holy Week 2009 will go down as one of the most memorable and joyful for many pastors and parishioners throughout the archdiocese, as nearly 900 people were received fully into the Catholic Church during the April 11 Easter Vigil – the biggest number in a decade.

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January 19, 2012

Former Paraguayan bishop, now president, admits to fathering child

ASUNCION, Paraguay – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo, the former bishop who was elected in 2008, admitted April 13 that he had fathered a child, now nearly two years old, who was born before Lugo was laicized.

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January 19, 2012

Daring rescue of ship’s captain leaves Vermont parish overjoyed

WASHINGTON – When news of the bold liberation of U.S. Capt. Richard Phillips from the grip of pirates off the coast of Somalia filtered through his Vermont Catholic parish April 12, members of his church community felt like their Easter prayers had been answered.

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January 19, 2012

Eastern meditation: Pope’s Way of the Cross adopts an Asian viewpoint

VATICAN CITY – This year’s meditation for Pope Benedict XVI’s Good Friday Way of the Cross has a distinctly Asian perspective, referring to Hindu scriptures, an Indian poet and Mahatma Gandhi.

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January 19, 2012

Maryland parishioners heartbroken over death of Angels’ pitcher

Parishioners of St. Augustine in Williamsport are reeling from the tragic death of Nick Adenhart, a rookie right-handed pitcher with the Los Angeles Angels whose father, grandparents and family members are parishioners of St. Augustine.

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January 19, 2012

New Catholics overwhelmed by experience of joining church

Lisa Russell stepped gingerly into Sacred Heart’s baptismal font April 11 and knelt in the warm water before the pastor, Monsignor Lloyd E. Aiken.

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January 19, 2012

Humanity must use weapons of truth, mercy to end conflict, says pope

VATICAN CITY – Christ’s resurrection is not a myth or fairy tale; it is the one and only event that has destroyed the root of evil and can fill the emptiness in people’s hearts, Pope Benedict XVI said in his Easter message.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien leads Good Friday pro-life walk

As at least seven women entered a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic on Howard Street in Baltimore April 10, about 200 Catholics stood on the opposite side of the street and peacefully prayed for them and their unborn children.

George P. Matysek Jr.Local News, News, Respect Life