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January 19, 2012

Don’t wait until New Year’s to ring in new fitness goals

New Year’s may typically be a time for fresh starts and new goals, but when it comes to leading a more healthful lifestyle, there’s no time like the present.
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Maryvale junior doesn’t settle for average

Colin Devlin makes the same pledge to all his varsity soccer players at Maryvale Preparatory School in Brooklandville: if they make their college soccer team, he’ll be at their first game to watch them play.
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Remembering saint-like priest

How does St. Aloysius Schwartz sound to you? Who, you may ask, is Aloysius Schwartz?
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Calling God in prayer – giving more than our ‘telephone voice’

I remember it as yesterday. My mother let my brothers and me have it. She was a gentle woman, rarely angry, usually smiling, but that day... In the middle of her angry tirade, the phone rang. Since she was standing next to phone, she reached over and answered. Her greeting was worth an Oscar! She...
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Catholic schools play vital role in African-American community

In 1878 the black enrollment had expanded at St. Michael’s in the Irish Channel, New Orleans, and this good nun, Mother Austin, built a larger school behind the white school since there was so much land in the area. With the new school, the sisters were able to start a sodality for the African-Americans. The...
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Bishops criticize aid with strings attached as ‘cultural imperialism’

VATICAN CITY – Development aid that is tied to promoting abortion, contraception and cutbacks in social and educational programs represents a form of “cultural imperialism” from the West that must end, said some African bishops.
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Updated: City parishes to gather at Patterson Park for peace

When the summer of 2009 began, the Archdiocese of Baltimore held a peace summit for Baltimore City parishes.
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Gala of Hope, to benefit Haiti Project, in Hunt Valley Oct. 24

The Gala of Hope 2009, which benefits the educational needs of school-age children in Haiti, will be held Oct. 24 at the Marriott Hunt Valley Inn, from 6:30 to 11 p.m.
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Poker-playing priest wins big for parish on TV game show

GARDEN CITY, S.C. – A poker-playing priest from South Carolina is one step closer to winning $1 million for his church’s building fund.
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Advisory: sacrifices ahead

In a typically excellent column, Priest Magazine editor Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of an aging rural pastor of three mission churches in the Midwest during the early 1940s.
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St. Anthony capping 125th anniversary

In its heyday, Gardenville’s St. Anthony of Padua would have 6,000 people attend Masses on Sunday.
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