Health care workers urged to fight for conscience rights

Catholic health care providers need to stand up and defend their right to practice medicine in a way that’s consistent with their religious convictions, according to several speakers at a symposium on conscience rights held May 9 at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.
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Speakers impart knowledge at local colleges

Many students at the three Catholic colleges in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are approaching the end of their education journeys.
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Gov. O’Malley signs death penalty restrictions

Gov. Martin J. O’Malley signed a bill May 7 that imposes significant restrictions on the death penalty in Maryland. The new law allows capital punishment only in murder cases where there is biological evidence, videotaped evidence or a videotaped confession.
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Pope visits Dome of the Rock, urges expansion of interfaith dialogue

JERUSALEM – In a visit to one of Islam’s holiest places, Pope Benedict XVI said Christians, Muslims and Jews have a “grave responsibility” to expand dialogue and mend divisions. “Those who honor the one God believe that he will hold human beings accountable for their actions,” the pope told Muslim leaders May 12 in Jerusalem.
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At Western Wall, meeting with rabbis, pope prays for peace

JERUSALEM – Taking a piece of paper, firmly folding it in four and pushing it deep into a crevice of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, Pope Benedict XVI prayed for peace in the Holy Land and respect among believers from every faith.
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State handwriting champ comes from St. Thomas Aquinas

Each night, Dorothy Geathers sits down with her twin granddaughters, Candace and Claudaya Hood-Bey, and diligently watches them do their homework.
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Visiting Holocaust memorial, pope says hatred must never reign again

JERUSALEM – On his first day in Jerusalem, Pope Benedict XVI visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial and said the suffering of Jews under the Nazi extermination campaign must “never be denied, belittled or forgotten.”
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Pope condemns anti-Semitism, prays for interreligious harmony

JERUSALEM – Reaching Israel, the country at the heart of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land, Pope Benedict XVI condemned anti-Semitism and prayed for a new era in which all believers in the one God would live in peace and treat each other with respect and justice.
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In Jordan, pope boosts Christian minority, builds bridges to Muslims

AMMAN, Jordan – Walking a pilgrim’s path in Jordan, Pope Benedict XVI energized its minority Christian population and built bridges to the moderate Muslim world.
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Pay closer attention to example of Jesus

In his book, “Jesus before Christianity,” Father Albert Nolan, currently provincial for the South African Province of the Dominicans, says that “there is no mistaking the two quite different ways in which power and authority are understood and exercised. It is the difference between domination and service.”
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Why did Bush have blessing?

I’m a Catholic and I believe that abortion is a horrible crime, but I have to agree with our critics, who say that when it comes to the sacredness of life, it seems that for Catholics, the only lives that matter are the ones of the unborn babies.
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