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December 20, 2017

Small Miracle: However long they have him, family cherishes its youngest

The D’Orazio family, parishioners of St. Ignatius in Baltimore, see their infant son, Leo, as a gift from God. Leo suffers from a rare condition that is likely to make his earthly life brief.
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Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Monday, Third Week of Advent; Seminarians’ Christmas Gathering

As we prepare to celebrate the feast of Christmas, in only one week, let us use these final days to prepare our hearts so that, amid all our concerns, we will receive the Lord as did Mary and Joseph and find in his saving will the peace the world cannot give.
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Tax bill passes amid concerns about future effects on poor

Republican lawmakers joined President Donald Trump in cheering passage of the most significant overhaul of the federal tax system in three decades even as the chairman of the U.S. bishops' domestic policy committee called on the president to work with Congress to fix "unacceptable problems" in the law.
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Archbishop Lori provides invocation for Helping Up Mission improvements

According to Mike Rallo, director of spiritual life for the Helping Up Mission, a faith-based institution with an approach that seeks to help the whole person, it houses more than 400 men.
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Christmas Mass schedule announced for Baltimore bishops

Archbishop William E. Lori and the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s auxiliary bishops will celebrate Christmas with various Catholic communities.
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Pope puts founder of Rosary Crusade one step closer toward sainthood

Pope Francis advanced the sainthood causes of Holy Cross Father Patrick Peyton, which involved study done by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, and St. John Paul II’s mentor, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski.
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Cardinal Law, whose legacy was marred by sex abuse scandal, dies

Cardinal Bernard F. Law, who had been one of the United States' most powerful and respected bishops until his legacy was blemished by the devastating sexual abuse of minors by priests in his Archdiocese of Boston, died early Dec. 20 in Rome at the age of 86.
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