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A Baltimorean’s dream vending machine?

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Fake priest tricks art world with masterful deception

The fake copy of a watercolour boating scene by Paul Signac that was offered to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. A man posing as a Jesuit priest has managed to trick a lot of museums into accepting masterful counterfeits. The only thing he seems to have gotten in return is the satisfaction of pulling...
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Turkey Bowl is here

Tomorrow, Calvert Hall and Loyola Blakefield will take the field of M&T Bank Stadium for the annual Turkey Bowl football game.  It’s the Navy-Army of the Baltimore high school football. Adrian Amos (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III) If you want to get up to speed on some of the standouts from both schools, check out this...
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Cardinal Shehan’s Thanksgiving spirit

Cardinal Shehan students celebrate giving to others. I had the chance this morning to visit Cardinal Shehan School here in Baltimore. Canned food drives are a staple of schools and parishes around the Archdiocese this time of the year. You see the goodness of people around late November and Cardinal Shehan is no different. The...
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South Korean priests criticize North Korean shelling

INCHEON, South Korea – A South Korean chancellor whose diocese was affected by the recent North Korean military provocation criticized the aggression and expressed concern for local residents.
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Sarah v. JFK

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin kicked off a national book tour today for her newly released “America by Heart: Reflections on Family, Faith and Flag.” The tour comes one day after the 47th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic president and a man Palin charges with making religion such...
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Judas was also first to leave

This coming weekend marks the start of Advent and a new liturgical year for the Church.  Barbara Anderson believes new years are a time for resolutions, and she has a good one in mind. Writing in the Nov. 21 parish bulletin, the pastoral life director of St. Anthony Shrine in Emmitsburg and Our Lady of Mount Carmel...
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‘The power of Christ compels you’

The surprise election of New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan as the new president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops grabbed most of the headlines at last week’s fall bishops’ meeting in Baltimore. A close second might be the bishops’ two-day conference on exorcism, held just before the Nov. 15-18 general assembly of bishops. With...
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Tap into Your Faith

There’s a great group of Catholic young adults that meets every Tuesday night at the Greene Turtle in Fells Point as part of the six-week Tap into Your Faith speakers series.  Tonight’s speaker is Philip Rosensteel, founder of Wired Different Media, Inc. and a graduate of Franciscan University in Steubenville.  He’ll give a personal testimony...
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Let’s get going

A narthex is the main gathering area or lobby of a church. It’s where conversation takes place, bringing together  people of all ages and backgrounds. That’s what this blog aspires to be — a spot where you can join a conversation about news and happenings related to the Archdiocese of Baltimore and the Catholic world at large.  ...
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Behind the headlines at TCR

I’ve been in the Catholic news business since I got out of college, and been writing and working for newspapers even longer than that if you count high school and college days, too. When I came to The Catholic Review in July 2009, I knew that I was joining a great group of journalism and...
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Anne Arundel kids relish BYCC

Archbishop Spalding senior Elizabeth Gorman attended her second BYCC this weekend. She never doubted that she would be back. “You really learn a lot during the workshops,” Gorman said. The parishioner of Odenton’s St. Joseph was one of two teens from her parish. The biggest draw for Gorman was the ability to meet other Catholic...
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