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January 19, 2012

Question of balance

When attending school as a youngster, some of the material in history was then incomprehensible. Going forward after the Ten Commandments, tribes fighting each other and still later in the days of the Caesars of Rome and the brutal demonstrations in the Coliseum, one might have expected over the centuries that society and man would...

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January 19, 2012

Priests urged to preach about effects of poverty, job loss on families

WASHINGTON – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops is urging priests across the country to preach about “the terrible toll the current economic turmoil is taking on families and communities.”

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January 19, 2012

Police detain, threaten Mexican priest, activist, two migrants

MEXICO CITY – A Catholic priest in southeastern Mexico–- known for his outspoken defense of undocumented Central Americans arriving from neighboring Guatemala – was detained for several hours and threatened by soldiers and state police.

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January 19, 2012

‘Radically new and unprecedented attack on religious freedom’

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is urging the Obama administration to back down from a pending health mandate that he believes violates the conscience rights of Catholic health care providers and others.

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January 19, 2012

Philadelphia Catholic high schools reopen after two-week strike

PHILADELPHIA - Students at 17 Catholic high schools in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia returned to their classrooms Sept. 20 after lay teachers ratified a three-year contract and ended a two-week strike.

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January 19, 2012

New Orleans Catholic Charities gets $15 million for oil spill victims

NEW ORLEANS - Catholic Charities in the Archdiocese of New Orleans has received the largest single grant in its history - $15 million from the Baton Rouge Area Foundation - to oversee a collaborative of nonprofit organizations that will provide direct assistance, counseling and job force training to coastal Louisiana fishing families affected by the...

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January 19, 2012

Mission to Iran seeks to improve relations through religious dialogue

WASHINGTON - A delegation of Christian and Muslim leaders returned to the United States from Iran hoping that their six-day visit will improve relations between the two squabbling countries in a way that diplomatic channels have not.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore’s Blessed Sacrament celebrates 100 years

Ben Gregorek’s eyes widened as he scanned the inside of Baltimore’s Church of the Blessed Sacrament. It had been decades since the 47-year-old had stepped foot in the church, and he thought about the many prayerful days he spent as a child with his mother there.

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January 19, 2012

St. Frances dedicates cage to late Major Leaguer from Maryland

St. Frances Academy in Baltimore hosted a Sept. 17 dedication and unveiling of a banner for the Nick Adenhart Memorial Batting Cage. The Panthers baseball program received a much-needed donation from the Nick Adenhart Foundation in order to erect the cage. The foundation is named after the Maryland native and former Los Angeles Angels starting...

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January 19, 2012

Jerusalem patriarch: Palestine U.N. bid a step toward two-state solution

BETHESDA – The Latin patriarch of Jerusalem said he hoped that an effort to grant full U.N. membership to Palestine would be a step toward eventual peace in the region, leading to the “two-state solution.”

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January 19, 2012

Group asks church employees to submit evidence of abuse to court

ROME – A sex abuse victims’ advocacy group and a human rights’ organization called on all current and past Vatican and church employees to send any information about the clerical abuse of minors to the International Criminal Court.

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January 19, 2012

Haiti pastor grateful for outreach of Edgewater parish

In late August, a historic earthquake left a small crack in the steeple at Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Edgewater, before Hurricane Irene damaged property of the church and that of many of its parishioners.

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