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January 19, 2012

Mount Carmel students go from the art room to the Walters

Michael Lyons loves drawing pictures so much he wants to be an artist someday. “I like moving my hand around and seeing what it makes,” the third-grader at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Elementary School said during a recent art class at the Essex school. “Sometimes I just think it out and sometimes I just...

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January 19, 2012

IHM seventh graders nominated for governor’s award

Seventh-graders at Immaculate Heart of Mary School, Baynesville, were nominated by St. Vincent’s Center for the Governor’s Volunteer Service Award. For over three years, students have helped to brighten the lives of the children at St. Vincent’s through art projects to brighten holiday meals, and organizing collections for clothing, school supplies and personal items.

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January 19, 2012

Archbishop Burke apologizes to fellow US bishops for video comments

WASHINGTON – The prefect of the Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature issued an apology to his fellow U.S. bishops March 26 for how comments he made in a videotaped interview were used.

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January 19, 2012

North Dakota seminary partially evacuates because of flood alert

WASHINGTON – Monsignor Gregory Schlesselmann, rector of Cardinal Muench Seminary in Fargo, N.D., was doing all he could during a heavy snowstorm March 26 to prepare for the expected rise in two days of floodwaters of the adjacent Red River.

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January 19, 2012

Mexican priests give mixed reactions to US plan to stem drug violence

MEXICO CITY – Plans by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to deploy approximately 500 federal agents to the southern border region have been lauded by Mexico’s political leaders, but received mixed reviews from Catholic officials in northern Mexico.

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January 19, 2012

Gov. O’Malley to sign restrictions on death penalty

It’s not the full repeal she had lobbied for, but Mary Ellen Russell hailed the House of Delegates for passing significant restrictions on the death penalty in Maryland.

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January 19, 2012

Pro-life radio focuses on education

Stephen Peroutka is convinced that education is the way to change hearts and minds on abortion and other issues of life and death. That’s why the parishioner of Our Lady of the Fields in Millersville has launched National Pro-Life Radio, an Internet-based network that broadcasts pro-life programming 24 hours a day.

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January 19, 2012

President Obama says he believes strong moral guidelines important in science

WASHINGTON – Saying he believes strong moral guidelines are important in the human life sciences, President Barack Obama said he would be happy to avoid ethical and political disputes if alternatives to embryonic stem-cell research turn out to be equally promising.

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January 19, 2012

Cuba allows repair work to proceed on four Havana churches

SYDNEY, Australia – The Cuban government has given the go-ahead to renovations of four Catholic churches in Havana, using funds provided by the Australian office of Aid to the Church in Need.

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January 19, 2012

Media effort draws 92,000 inactive Catholics back home to church

PHOENIX – Maybe TV isn’t so bad after all. An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics in the Phoenix Diocese have come back to the church in the last year thanks in large part to a groundbreaking television advertising campaign called Catholics Come Home.

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