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St. Bernardine parishioner offers comfort with meals

As a child, Jo Ann Thomas watched her grandmother cook for the retired Josephite priests and brothers in residence at St. Joseph’s Manor in Roland Park. Those memories of growing up around the Josephites (her mother served them as a nurse) surround Thomas when she cooks with commercial-sized pots and pans in the kitchen of...
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University, institute to be hub for sainthood causes of African-American Catholics

Reynold Verret, president of Xavier University of Louisiana, announced July 31 that the university and its Institute for Black Catholic Studies will become the new hub for the advancement of sainthood causes of African-American Catholics.
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Maryland Catholic Conference opposes Maryland Constitutional Amendment on abortion

Jennifer Briemann, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, said lawmakers and voters should be greatly concerned about House of Delegates Speaker Michael Busch's plan to introduce legislation establishing a woman’s “right” to abortion via a Maryland Constitutional Amendment on the 2020 ballot.
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Pope revises catechism to say death penalty is ‘inadmissible’

Pope Francis has ordered a revision of the Catechism of the Catholic Church to assert "the death penalty is inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person."
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Names of former Harrisburg bishops will be removed from buildings

Harrisburg Bishop Ronald W. Gainer Aug. 1 released information from the diocese's own internal investigation on child sex abuse, including a list of the names of 71 clergy, both dead and alive, accused of abuse.
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Cardinal Wuerl: Next steps in wake of Archbishop McCarrick allegations

"The news regarding Archbishop McCarrick was a great shock to our church in Washington. There is understandable anger, both on a personal level due to the charges, but also more broadly at the church," Cardinal Wuerl said.
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Crimes, oppression against religion ‘span width of our world,’ says Pence

In a speech at the Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom, Vice President Mike Pence described the state of religious freedom around the world and the wide variety of attacks it faces.
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Baltimore Basilica launches plan to be ‘radically open’

Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning "urban missionaries" whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets.
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Bringing it all back home to Baltimore, Father Whitt still teaching

Father Reginald Whitt, who converted to Catholicism as a student at what was then Loyola College, finally has an assignment in his hometown, in the “healing ministry” of the archdiocesan Tribunal.
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Accountability for all a must

We must make clear that we will not tolerate criminal and evil behavior, regardless of the rank and standing of the accused.
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St. Katharine Drexel’s tomb will be moved to Philadelphia cathedral

The remains of St. Katharine Drexel, founder of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, will be transferred from the crypt under the chapel of St. Elizabeth Convent, the congregation's Bensalem motherhouse, in the coming weeks to the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
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