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January 19, 2012

At funeral, Irish cardinal calls predecessor ‘ahead of his time’

ARMAGH, Northern Ireland – Cardinal Cahal Daly, the former primate of all Ireland and an outspoken critic of paramilitary violence and poverty in Northern Ireland, was a man “ahead of his time,” his successor told mourners.
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Matton succeeds Beck as president of Good Sam

As Larry M. Beck and the leadership of Good Samaritan Hospital searched for a chief operating officer in 2006, their charge went beyond landing someone who knew his way around a ledger.
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Catholic corporal steps up to tend to spiritual well-being of company

COMBAT OUTPOST SPIDER MONKEY, Afghanistan – Like all Marines, Cpl. Matthew Munoz is there for his buddies, but the 23-year-old also has stepped forward to help tend to the spiritual well-being of his comrades in arms.
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American Astronomical Society honors former Vatican Observatory head, Baltimore native

WASHINGTON – Veteran astronomer Jesuit Father George V. Coyne, a Baltimore native, was honored by the American Astronomical Society for his work in building a Vatican-sponsored summer school for young astronomers and promoting discussions on the intersection of religion and science.
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Pope confers title of monsignor on Baltimore priests

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien had the look of a proud father as he stood inside the archbishop’s residence in Baltimore Dec. 30.
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St. Rose parishioner to enter religious life

When Kayla Cservek was studying theology at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, some of her friends in the on-campus seminary occasionally teased her about her birthday.
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Papal secretary visits pope’s Christmas attacker

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI’s personal secretary visited the woman responsible for knocking the pope down during a Christmas Eve Mass.
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Tanks, jets, automatic weapons: Scenario for conflict in Latin America

LIMA, Peru – As Latin American Catholics celebrated the start of the new year with World Peace Day, their countries’ leaders seemed to be preparing for war.
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E pluribus unum trumps cultural diversity

Rudy Vargas IV (CR, Dec. 24) would have us add another vile word to the modern lexicon, “Americanize.” While putting forth his argument for cultural diversity, he seems to forget the Americanization of this country is one of the reasons so many people from various cultures have desired to live and work here.
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Magliano correctly invokes subsidiarity

Inviting Catholics to support health care reform, Tony Magliano (CR, Dec. 10) correctly invoked the principle of subsidiarity.
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Silence is consent on health care reform

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien released the following statement Dec. 24, after the U.S. Senate passed its version of a health care reform bill:
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