Talk of nuclear disarmament gets serious in international arena

WASHINGTON - On the nuclear disarmament front, it sounds like the 1980s all over again.
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Irish religious offer more to abuse victims; government says not enough

DUBLIN, Ireland - Irish religious congregations have offered an additional 348 million euros ($470 million) to compensate victims of abuse in church-run industrial schools over a 40-year period.
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Catholic displaced in 1948 to light torch for Israeli celebrations

JERUSALEM - Yossef Mtanes said it was not an easy decision to agree to be one of the symbolic torch lighters at the April 19 opening of Israel’s 62nd Independence Day celebrations.
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At Vatican, frustration and some optimism over abuse scandal

VATICAN CITY - Fresh developments in the continuing storm over clerical sex abuse illustrate a chronic Vatican problem as well as some reasons for guarded optimism about the future.
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Goretti tennis ace goes the distance

How committed is Maxlorenzo Agbayani to St. Maria Goretti High School in Hagerstown?
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Grateful to Maryvale staff

I would like to take this opportunity to let you know how Maryvale Preparatory School has enriched my daughter’s life.
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Abuse scandal painful, but doing penance leads to grace, pope says

VATICAN CITY - Recognizing the sins of priests who have sexually abused children, performing penance and asking for forgiveness, the Catholic Church trusts that God will purify and transform the church, Pope Benedict XVI said.
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Deaf player loves the racquet at RIT

If anyone knows about facing and overcoming life’s challenges, it’s Kyle Gahagan. The 2009 Calvert Hall College High School graduate has endured much in his life, including being born deaf, the death of his mother when he was 12 and spending much of his youth as a latchkey child.
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Harford parishioner makes a clean sweep

Growing up as a parishioner of St. Patrick, Havre de Grace, Mary Ann Lisanti learned to have a deep appreciation for the beauty of creation around her.
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The limits of the papacy

During the preparation of the Second Vatican Council’s Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, Pope Paul VI proposed that the constitution’s discussion of papal primacy include the affirmation that the pope is “accountable to the Lord alone.” This suggestion was rejected by the Council’s Theological Commission, which wrote that “the Roman Pontiff is also bound to...
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Dare to have the vision this Easter season

Few things rivet our attention the way that death does! I spent this past Holy Week leading a men’s retreat at St. Joseph’s In The Hills in Malvern Pennsylvania. Several days before the retreat, on Good Friday, I felt strange feelings in the back of my right leg. The previous two times I had those...
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Rallying around our youths

In this age of fiscal cutbacks, the hardest hit seems to be to city youth. How can any community risk a reduction of services and outreach to young people, so precious to us especially in the midst of societal challenges that manifest themselves daily? However, youth leaders in our Catholic parishes have invested themselves and...
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