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January 19, 2012

Italian researchers develop heart-repair method with adult stem cells

VATICAN CITY – Italian researchers have developed a method to repair a damaged heart using adult stem cells, and said it confirmed that the adult cells were more therapeutically useful than embryonic stem cells.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore commemorates 10th anniversary of death of Bishop Murphy

It wasn't uncommon for the late Bishop P. Francis Murphy to repeat a person's first name several times in a short conversation. It wasn't mere artifice. The personal touch was the western vicar's way of making a connection and genuinely trying to listen to what a person had to say.

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January 19, 2012

Catholic school students help create new bullying-prevention Web site

ST. PAUL, Minn. – “Guess who just signed on?” a teenage girl says to a couple of her friends huddled around a computer monitor. “Sarah. You know, Sarah – sits in the back of science (class), never talks to anybody. You know, Miss Science Fair.”

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January 19, 2012

Sin in America: Researchers attempt to find who’s good and who’s not

WASHINGTON – How much sin is in America?

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January 19, 2012

Kansas bishops decry end of state program for pregnant women in need

TOPEKA, Kan. – The Catholic bishops of Kansas told Gov. Mark Parkinson that his administration’s decision to end state funding in 2010 for a program that helps women facing crisis pregnancies “will have grave repercussions for some of the most vulnerable among us.”

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January 19, 2012

Fifteen Catholic students awarded fellowships for religious studies

WASHINGTON – Pursuing a master of divinity degree “certainly isn’t the path to riches in this world, but it’s something I really like to do,” said Joe Kolar, a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican newspaper says Allied governments did little to stop Holocaust

VATICAN CITY – In a lengthy article, the Vatican newspaper said the U.S. and British governments had detailed information about the Nazi plan to exterminate European Jews during World War II, but failed to act for many months and even suppressed reports about the extent of the Holocaust.

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January 19, 2012

One Catholic high school’s special education program inspires another

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – When Elaine and Kevin Burke were looking for a Catholic high school in the Chicago area that would accept their son Ryan, born with Down syndrome, they found inspiration –and an answer – in a Catholic high school in Tennessee.

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January 19, 2012

Cardinal says deacons must know Scripture, serve poor

VATICAN CITY– The Catholic Church increasingly relies on the ministry of permanent deacons, who must be experts in preaching the word of God and in outreach to the poor, said the prefect of the Congregation for Clergy.

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January 19, 2012

Basket business is a gift to homeless residents of My Sister’s Place Lodge

Although Dianna is homeless, she’s not looking for a handout; she’s interested in giving back. That’s why working with Benevolent Baskets, a theme gift basket business in place at My Sister’s Place, Baltimore, “has been a tremendously good experience,” she said.

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January 19, 2012

Universal health care a worthy goal

I was surprised by Richard W. Montalto’s letter (CR, Aug. 6). The writer was concerned that reform would change health care to a “socialistic medical delivery system,” yet we have socialized medicine now, if by the phrase we mean federal government or taxpayer-financed care.

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January 19, 2012

Second Amendment letter made no sense

To equate the right to bear arms under the Second Amendment to be the prime supporter of the right to life (James E. Dickinson letter, CR, July 30) is unbelievable. The carnage in Baltimore City, the opposition of the proliferation of guns by every police department in the country and common sense refute this idea....

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