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At the Teachers’ Award Banquet on April 10, the honorees on the following list celebrated the most years of service in education within the archdiocese:

A funeral Mass for Sister Anne Pickard, I.H.M., was offered April 11 in Scranton, Pa. Formerly Sister M. St. Gerald, Sister Anne died April 6. She was 89.

A funeral Mass for Brother Thomas Allen Miller, F.S.C., was offered March 28 at Immaculate Heart of Mary, Baynesville. Brother Thomas died March 24; he was 60.

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming visit to the White House to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush does not signal Vatican support of the Bush administration’s foreign policies, a Vatican official said.

WASHINGTON – Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Richard E. Pates of St. Paul and Minneapolis to head the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, and Father Anthony B. Taylor, a priest of the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, as bishop of Little Rock, Ark., April 10.

Loyola College in Maryland, Baltimore, has named Dr. Karyl Leggio as dean of its Sellinger School of Business and Management and Dr. Peter C. Murrell Jr. as founding dean of the School of Education effective July 1.

Archbishop Valerian Okeke of Onitsha, Nigeria, will celebrate a special 12th anniversary Mass for the Nigerian Igbo Catholic Community of Baltimore on April 27 at St. Matthew, Northwood. The Mass will be followed by a reception beginning at 5 p.m.