St. Joseph Medical Center’s CEO looks to the future

TOWSON – Late last year, St. Joseph Medical Center agreed to pay the U.S. government $22 million to settle allegations it was involved in a kickback scheme with MidAtlantic Cardiovascular Associates (MACVA). Dr. Mark Midei, a one-time MACVA partner who later worked for St. Joseph, was accused of performing medically unnecessary stent procedures.
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Terrified families flee ravaged Sudanese border town, priest says

EUGENE, Oregon - Terrified families are fleeing farther south from the ravaged border town of Abyei as northern Sudanese troops continue to burn houses and fire artillery at retreating groups of civilians, said a Catholic priest from the local diocese.
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Millennial Series Part 3: Are young people too connected?

During the 1980s and early 1990s, there wasn’t a more reliable pair of babysitters than the Super Mario Bros.
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College graduates urged to keep texting in check, stay connected to God

WASHINGTON - Today’s college graduates are all too familiar with texting and using online social networks, but they were advised to keep these tools in check so they can stay connected to God and others.
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Baltimore Catholic League honors first Hall of Fame class

Tony Guy traveled all over the world thanks to basketball, but the Loyola Blakefield graduate knows it would not have been possible without the Baltimore Catholic League.
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Camp heals wounds for young people

Lucas Wunderer ran around Camp Puh’Tuk’s Thunderbird Lodge May 15 like he didn’t have a care in the world.
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I have come to serve

It was 2 a.m. I was in the midst of a four-hour layover in the Anchorage, Alaska, airport, drowsy and sluggish and looking forward to my connection to Japan to visit our military members and their families. I was in no shape or mood for evangelizing, but off to the side sensed someone approaching.
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Shuttle, ISS astronauts get a “Popespace” page

Watching the video, it’s hard to tell who is more impressed at being part of the conversation: Pope Benedict XVI or the dozen astronauts on the International Space Station who chatted via video link May 21. The pope thanked the spacefarers for their courage and willingness to place the results of their endeavors at the...
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A funeral for our little brother Daniel

Tonight I celebrated a funeral Mass for a 5-month old fetus. His name was Daniel. His parents and three brothers had looked forward to the new addition to their family. A week-and-a-half ago the mother, we’ll call her Maria, began having complications. Four days later delivery was induced, but the child could not be saved....
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Give problems to Christ within us

Recently I saw a quote from Gerald Jampolsky: “This moment is the only moment there is, and it is for love. In this moment there is no guilt or fear.”
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Pope receives papers for cause of Archbishop Sheen, whom he knew

VATICAN CITY - When Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of Peoria, Ill., presented Pope Benedict XVI with two thick volumes about the life of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the pope surprised him by saying he had worked with the late archbishop.
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Sister Anne O’Donnell retires as St. Joseph principal

When Sister of Mercy Anne O’Donnell was assigned to St. Joseph School in Cockeysville in 1971 as a teacher, she never believed she would spend 40 years there, 39 of which were as principal.
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