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January 19, 2012

Mexican prelates defend editorial calling for women to dress modestly

MEXICO CITY – An editorial in an online publication from the Archdiocese of Mexico City urging women to don more conservative attire has generated headlines across the country as Catholic leaders defended their call for modesty as a method of promoting dignity and reducing incidents of sexual harassment and assault.

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January 19, 2012

Priest consoles families of victims of plane crash in Madrid

MADRID, Spain – Father Angel Garcia Rodriguez arrived at Madrid’s Barajas Airport to see off a fellow priest when he heard that a plane had crashed at a nearby terminal just minutes earlier.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop O’Brien testifies against the death penalty

ANNAPOLIS – While others debated the financial costs of maintaining the death penalty in Maryland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien highlighted moral concerns during an Aug. 19 appearance before the Maryland Commission on Capital Punishment in Annapolis.

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January 19, 2012

New chair helps St. Agnes plot future

Barbara Bozzuto lost her way on her first visit to St. Agnes Hospital, which led to a satisfying discovery.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore says farewell to Bishop Malooly

It’s not every day that Bishop W. Francis Malooly is compared to a record-breaking Olympian.

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January 19, 2012

Youths need to limit computer use, keep moving

During the 1980s, computers weren’t for the cool kids. Now, everyone and their Web-savvy grandmother are perched in front of their monitors – at home, work and the coffee shop.

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January 19, 2012

Web safety tips

The Federal Trade Commission offers the following safety tips for young people who use social networking sites on the Internet:

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January 19, 2012

Web offers spiritual nourishment

The World Wide Web is full of sites that prey on human weakness. Yet there are also plenty of spiritually nourishing sites that help users grow in their faith or spend time in prayer or meditation.

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January 19, 2012

False solutions and the culture of death

The late, great Pope John Paul II referred to our era as the “Culture of Death.” Increasingly, our society sees death as a solution to our problems. Death is not the solution. Death is the problem.

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January 19, 2012

Would President Obama be good for black America?

When I was a teenager, my formative, if largely vicarious, political experience was the civil rights movement. It was a time of great issues bravely contested, a moment replete with heroes and villains. It was George Wallace vowing “Segregation forever!” Bull Connor setting dogs on demonstrators, and Klansmen bombing black churches. It was the March...

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January 19, 2012

Shall We Dance

The longest of the 150 Psalms in the Bible is Psalm 119. It is in praise of God’s law. Virtually every other verse mentions the law or its equivalent: covenant, precept, statute, decree, ordinance and commandment. The Jewish believer saw the law, known as Mosaic law since Christian and Hebrew tradition ascribe it to Moses,...

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January 19, 2012

Father Janaites carried burdens for others

Since the strokes in my eyes in 2002, I’ve found that tears come pretty easily. However, I needed no such excuse when I first heard that Father Stan Janaites had died on Aug. 5. I cried again as I stood at his coffin in St. Joseph’s Church in Sykesville.

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