Missionaries of Charity provide guidance, haven to Baltimore children

The Missionaries of Charity, the order of religious women founded by Blessed Teresa of Kolkata, came to Baltimore in 1992, establishing the “Gift of Hope” in the former St. Wenceslaus Parish convent.
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Rome expecting at least 300,000 pilgrims for John Paul’s beatification

ROME – Church and local government organizers are planning to accommodate at least 300,000 people in St. Peter’s Square and the surrounding area for Pope John Paul II’s beatification Mass May 1.
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Parishes and schools reach out to Japan

Parishes and schools throughout the archdiocese are pulling together to pray for and help the people of Japan following the March 11 earthquake and tsunami that struck the island nation.
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Robert Twynham, acclaimed Baltimore composer and musician, dies at 80

Robert Twynham, an internationally known composer of liturgical music and the longtime music director at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland, died March 23. He was 80. A memorial Mass is being planned for early May at Corpus Christi in Baltimore, his home parish.
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Ferraro dies; was first woman to seek vice presidency for major party

BOSTON – Geraldine Ferraro, a lawyer and former congresswoman who in 1984 became the first woman to seek the vice presidency on a major political party ticket, died March 26 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
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Government is not ‘brother’s keeper’

Tony Magliano (CR, March 24) has his priorities backward. We are our brother’s keeper, and should be especially mindful of this during Lent. It is not the deeply indebted and broke federal government’s responsibility to help the needy – it’s ours.
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Baltimore-based CRS announces it is resuming its food program in Western Darfur

Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services has announced that is resuming operations in Western Darfur more than two months after evacuating its staff.
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Mount St. Joseph alum returns from Japan after quake

Chris Godish calls it the most terrifying experience of his life. The 32-year-old English teacher and Mount St. Joseph alum was working with students at a middle school in Takahagi City, Japan, when the March 11 magnitude-9 earthquake struck. Godish couldn’t stay on his feet as he, other teachers and students were tossed by the...
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Fourth-graders at School of the Incarnation in Gambrills relish Maryland Day

GAMBRILLS – As a third-grader last year at School of the Incarnation, Regan Zeeser watched with curiosity and a tinge of jealousy as its fourth-grade classes celebrated Maryland Day.
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Father John J. Dietzen, leading question-and-answer columnist, dies

PEORIA, Ill. – Father John J. Dietzen, the foremost question-and-answer columnist in the Catholic press for 35 years, died March 27 at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria. He was 83.
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Archdiocese celebrates St. John Neumann’s 200th birthday

In the same Baltimore church where St. John Neumann once served as pastor and was consecrated the fourth bishop of Philadelphia, hundreds of Catholics gathered March 27 at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus to celebrate the saint’s 200th birthday.
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Basilica to display Mangione gift to college library April 5

A Heritage Edition of the “Saint John’s Bible,” a fine art reproduction of a handwritten text, will be on display at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore during an evening of prayer and reflection April 5, from 7 to 9 p.m., courtesy of Loyola University...
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