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What Irish dancing taught me about life

The other afternoon I found myself teaching our boys a few Irish dance steps in the kitchen. We were all laughing, and no one was really taking the lesson seriously. Still, we had a wonderful time bouncing around and pretending we all knew how to do our threes.I found myself
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An Ode to the Shamrock Shake

You’re green and sweet and such a dreamFar, far exceeding plain ice cream.With minty sweetness in each sip,You bring sheer joy to every lip.With whipped cream top—green sprinkles, too—You are, indeed, a stunning brew.Your green cascades from dark to light,Within the see-through cup so tight.From whence could come such dazzling
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Baltimore Catholic League products lead Mount St. Mary’s to NCAA basketball tournament

Mount St. Mary's University is headed to the NCAA basketball tournament, thanks in no small part to two underclassmen.
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Why we’re laughing at the BBC interview with Professor Robert Kelly

When I was watching the footage of the BBC interview with Professor Robert Kelly, and his daughter came dancing into the room—followed by her baby brother in a walker—I couldn’t help but laugh. But I wasn’t laughing at his predicament, or his wife’s, as she swoops in to scoop up
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Effort to rescue Blessed Sacrament in fire recalled as act of great faith

Father George Weinmann and Sister Lilian Marie McLaughlin lost their lives trying to rescue the Blessed Sacrament.
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The Least of These: Serving students with special needs, joyfully

Children with special needs receiving loving care at St. Elizabeth School and Villa Maria School.
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Love is both tolerant and intolerant

To love is to will the good of the other as other. It is to break out of the black hole of one’s own self-regard and truly desire what is best for another.
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U.S. Catholic, Lutheran bishops mark 500th anniversary of Reformation

Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski and Bishop Denis J. Madden joined other faith leaders for the commemoration.
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Monsignor Armstrong, beloved rector of Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, dies at 81

“The church asked him to become a father to the people of God and he did that extraordinarily well,” Father Seitz said.
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More prayer, outreach to youth could help priest shortage, pope says

Shortages of priests and rumors about possible female deacons were among the highlights of Pope Francis’ exclusive interview with Germany’s Die Zeit magazine.
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Vicariate structure outlined for Archdiocese of Baltimore

Archbishop Lori announced he has returned the archdiocese to the three-vicariate system, with urban, eastern and western vicariates.
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Pope names Maryland pastor as auxiliary bishop for Washington

Pope Francis has appointed Father Roy Edward Campbell Jr., who is pastor of St. Joseph Church in Largo, Maryland, as an auxiliary bishop of Washington.
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