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January 19, 2012

Virginia Tech shooting victim left behind message of forgiveness

ARLINGTON, Va. – Mary Karen Read, a 19-year-old victim of the shootings at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, aspired to be a teacher. Now she is posthumously teaching a lesson of forgiveness in the aftermath of the deadliest shooting rampage in U.S. history.

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January 19, 2012

Project Storybook helps imprisoned mothers stay close to their kids

CLINTON, N.J. – Once a month, Pat Brisson enters the gates of the Edna Mahan Correctional Facility for Women in Clinton to spend an evening with as many as 60 inmates. To Brisson, however, they are not just convicted criminals; they are also loving mothers.

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January 19, 2012

Texas investing coalition marks 25 years of mixing faith, finance

SAN ANTONIO – Although the early founders of the socially responsible investment movement might be described as “fools with faith,” they can look with pride to years of providing a platform for religious communities to use their moral voice and financial vote to influence corporations, according to one of those pioneers.

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January 19, 2012

Cumberland mayor honored by archdiocese

CUMBERLAND – In a small Western Maryland town whose residents pride homegrown leadership, Mayor Lee Fiedler knows he is probably one of the unlikeliest persons to hold Cumberland’s top job at City Hall.

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January 19, 2012

Depression places social stigma on patients, costs $83 billion annually

As Margery Ivester joined some fellow parishioners of St. Paul, Ellicott City, in a recent gardening project at the church, she noticed that she felt more vibrant and content than she had since being diagnosed with depression some 13 years ago.

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January 19, 2012

Scala Santa chapel: Under the soot and grime, a visual treasure

VATICAN CITY – When a Vatican-led team of art restorers started scrubbing and scrutinizing what was underneath centuries of soot and grime caked on the ceiling and walls of a major shrine in Rome, they made a spectacular discovery. A whole pictorial series of brilliantly colored, 16th-century frescoes by influential Flemish landscape artist Paul Bril...

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January 19, 2012

New edition of Holocaust survivor’s book on Pope John Paul II issued

WASHINGTON – After Polish-born poet, author and Holocaust survivor Lena Allen-Shore had her first private meeting with Pope John Paul II in 1996, her younger son, Jacques, told her, “You have to write an article. The title of the article should be ‘Building Bridges.’“

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January 19, 2012

Boise bishop urges Catholics to recognize Christ in every immigrant

BOISE, Idaho – Boise Bishop Michael P. Driscoll, in a pastoral statement on immigration, called on the people and parishes of his diocese “to recognize Christ in the person of every immigrant and to proclaim the church’s message of hope and welcome in our local communities.” “I challenge all parishes and individual Catholics to pray...

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January 19, 2012

One family’s struggle with immigration

When a Catonsville mother of four recently took her oath as a naturalized citizen of the United States, the event proved to be bittersweet.

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January 19, 2012

BUILD urges city voters to be irate about alarming murder rate

An interfaith group wants the Baltimore faithful to show their outrage at the city’s soaring homicide rate and flex their political muscles as candidates for mayor and city council seek their votes during the summer campaign season.

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January 19, 2012

Sister Marilyn, O.L.V.M., celebrates 60 years

Sister Marilyn Schatz, O.L.V.M, celebrated 60 years as a member of Our Lady of Victory Missionary sisters on May 24 at her motherhouse in Huntington, Ind.

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January 19, 2012

Report: Number of Iraqi Christian murders skyrocketed since 2003

WASHINGTON – The number of Christians murdered in Iraq since 2003 skyrocketed compared to murders in 1995-2002, said a comprehensive report based on public accounts from Iraqi Christian sources.

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