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January 19, 2012

New plan calls for closing weakest schools in New York, changing governance model

NEW YORK – A strategic plan for the elementary schools of the Archdiocese of New York will close underperforming schools to reduce growing deficits, channel funds from the sale or rental of shuttered properties to an education fund and replace the traditional parish governance model with a regional structure.

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January 19, 2012

Mount Calvary Episcopal Church considers entry into Catholic Church

Mount Calvary Church, a small Episcopal congregation in Baltimore, is discerning the possibility of entering the Roman Catholic Church.

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January 19, 2012

U.S. ambassador says migration policies are ethical issue

ROME – U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican Miguel Diaz said migration policies represent a growing ethical issue for the international community, requiring an examination of root causes and promotion of just laws.

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January 19, 2012

Stem-cell scientists challenged to justify research involving embryos

DETROIT – As more than 1,200 business, academic and government leaders from 25 countries gathered in Detroit for the World Stem Cell Summit, Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroit said research that destroys human embryos “deserves our scrutiny and scorn.”

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January 19, 2012

Boy Scouts take Fort McHenry by storm

Fort McHenry, a historic American landmark, was once again the scene of a patriotic celebration.

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January 19, 2012

Catholics condemn 1940s experiments on Guatemalans as abuse of power

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic – Catholic leaders condemned the Tuskegee-like medical experiments U.S. researchers carried out on Guatemalans in the 1940s, calling them a “deplorable” abuse of power.

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January 19, 2012

St. Michael the Archangel School rallies around first-grader

When times are tough for Jaidan Richardson, his classmates have his back.

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January 19, 2012

Nobel prize ignores moral problems with IVF, says Italian professor

VATICAN CITY – Honoring one of the inventors of in vitro fertilization with the Nobel Prize for Medicine “ignores all the ethical problems” connected to the creation of so-called “test tube babies,” an Italian professor told Vatican Radio.

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January 19, 2012

English Catholic adoption agency appeals Charity Commission’s decision

LONDON – The last remaining Catholic adoption agency in England has filed an appeal against a decision by the Charity Commission for England and Wales forbidding it to turn away same-sex couples as potential adopters and foster parents.

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January 19, 2012

A sweet tradition at Visitation Academy

For the 110 students of Frederick’s Visitation Academy, Apple Dumpling Day is as American as, well, apple pie.

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January 19, 2012

Baltimore women profess vows as Dominican Sisters

Katy Zeitler can pinpoint her conversion to one precise moment. During a high school trip to Paris, the daughter of an atheist mother and agnostic father attended a Mass inside a small church. As she observed everyone kneeling after receiving Communion, Zeitler felt a French women tug on her arm toward the ground.

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January 19, 2012

In Sicily, pope asks young to reject Mafia’s ‘path of death’

PALERMO, Sicily – Pope Benedict XVI urged the young people of Sicily to reject the “path of death” offered by organized crime and to stand up to evil by witnessing the values of the Gospel.

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