Growing divide seen in political worldviews of Catholic constituencies

WASHINGTON – As in other recent election years, Catholic voting behavior is likely to resemble the voting of the population at large, but there is a growing divide in the political worldviews of various Catholic constituencies.
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Life, looks prepare actor to bring ‘Lombardi’ to Broadway

NEW YORK – Dan Lauria bears a striking physical resemblance to Vince Lombardi.
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Synod hears repeated calls for common Christian Easter date

VATICAN CITY – At a synod concerned primarily about peace and the continued presence of Christians in the Holy Land, one of the suggestions made repeatedly was that Catholics, Protestants, Anglicans and Orthodox finally celebrate Easter together each year.
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Synod members discuss threats to Christian survival in Middle East

VATICAN CITY – The survival of the Christian communities of the Middle East is threatened not only by violence and political repression, but also by the churches’ weakened sense of mission, failure to work ecumenically and loss of their traditional liturgical heritage, bishops told the special synod for the Middle East.
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Updated: CEO denies health reform prompted possible sale of Catholic hospitals

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The head of a Catholic health system has denied reports that the decision to put three hospitals in northeastern Pennsylvania up for sale was a result of the health care reform bill passed in March.
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Archbishop Chullikatt makes plea at U.N. for complete disarmament

UNITED NATIONS – Any discussion of disarmament and arms control must take several ideas into consideration and must understand the link between weapons reduction and people’s development, said the Vatican’s new representative to the United Nations.
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Synod members alarmed by declining Christian populations

VATICAN CITY – Concern, and even alarm, over the real threat of the disappearance of Christians from the Middle East was a recurrent theme at the Synod of Bishops focusing on the region.
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Historic Catholic buildings in Baltimore given new missions as apartments, educational institutions

Since June 2009, 15 elementary schools and two high schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore have been shuttered. All but one, St. Michael School in Frostburg, was in Baltimore City or Baltimore County.
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St. Margaret School gets a ‘Big Time Rush’

BEL AIR – When St. Margaret School eighth-grader Olivia Askey and her friends heard about a text-messaging contest that could bring one of America’s fastest-rising musical acts to their school, they rolled up their sleeves.
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Pope Benedict XVI to canonize six Oct. 17

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will canonize six new saints at the Vatican Oct. 17. Biographical capsules of the six follow.
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Maryvale Prep senior takes lead on volleyball court, in social justice

Whether it’s on a volleyball court, an orphanage in Jamaica, or as co-president of a social justice movement among local Catholic high schools, Kate Browne leads.
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Newman’s faith

Two postcard portraits of the recently-beatified John Henry Newman have graced my office for years. One is a miniature painted by Sir William Charles Ross in 1845, the year of Newman’s reception into the Catholic Church. The second, by Emmeline Dean, gives us the aged cardinal, a year before his death in 1890. Between those...
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