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January 19, 2012

Telecom tycoon rescues $52 million plaza next to Mexican basilica

MEXICO CITY – President Felipe Calderon inaugurated the new Plaza Mariana Oct. 12 adjacent to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, but credit for rescuing the project from budgetary and political problems went to the world’s richest man, Mexican telecom tycoon Carlos Slim Helu.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Broglio, chaplains’ group object to memo on same-sex weddings

WASHINGTON - Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and a group representing hundreds of other Christian military chaplains have objected to a Pentagon memo allowing military chaplains to participate in or officiate at same-sex marriages on or off military installations.

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January 19, 2012

Teachers hear about importance of urban educators

Robert Simmons knows the challenges of inner city education. As a product of Detroit, the assistant professor of Loyola University Maryland also teaches high school in Southeast Washington.

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January 19, 2012

Learn from basketball

Though a Catholic since birth, I do not understand the concept of “Catholic guilt.” Many Saturdays I watched my nephews play basketball. During every time out and at halftime, their coach would point out all the things they were doing wrong. Often the referee would stop the game with a shrill whistle and loudly announce...

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January 19, 2012

Challenge to abortion is to judge less

It was a galaxy far away and a time long ago, which means that the story I’m about to tell happened somewhere else in the distant past. It’s a story that did not have a happy beginning. A young woman was pregnant and decided she should have an abortion. Her mother agreed with her, and...

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January 19, 2012

Growing secularism seen as greatest threat facing health care workers

LITCHFIELD PARK, Ariz. – The greatest challenge faced by Catholic health care workers is growing secularism, said Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez.

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January 19, 2012

Honduran bishop to run for office because politics ‘screwed the poor’

JESUS DE OTORO, Honduras – The “Red Bishop” of Honduras says he will run for president of the Central American nation if he gets permission from Pope Benedict XVI.

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January 19, 2012

Archdiocese of Baltimore embarks on parish planning process

The Archdiocese of Baltimore has embarked on a comprehensive parish planning process that leaders hope will strengthen the evangelizing mission of the church.

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January 19, 2012

Now the Real Work Begins

It has been one year since I first wrote about the need for a plan that addresses the challenges facing our parishes and seizes opportunities to create more vibrant faith communities in our Archdiocese.

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January 19, 2012

St. Casimir playground in Canton gets boost from Knights

The men of Knights of Columbus Santa Maria Council 1733 are no strangers to kindness.

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January 19, 2012

U.S. bishops’ agency denied federal grant to help trafficking victims

WASHINGTON – Since 2006, the U.S. Catholic bishops’ Migration and Refugee Services has helped more than 2,700 victims of human trafficking obtain food, clothing and access to medical care.

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January 19, 2012

Goodspeeds are Eagles leaving the nest, strengthening their faith

As quadruplets, 18-year-old John, William, David and Patrick Goodspeed are used to people noticing them.

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