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January 19, 2012

Fire chief names Archbishop O’Brien honorary fire chief

In recognition of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s support for fire chaplains, Baltimore City Fire Chief James S. Clack has named Archbishop O’Brien “honorary fire chief.”

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January 19, 2012

Pope says trip to Africa will focus on continent’s hopes, challenges

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI said his trip to Africa would be a missionary journey highlighting the continent’s challenges, its enormous potential and its “profound religious soul.”

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January 19, 2012

Cleveland Diocese to have 52 fewer parishes within 15 months

WASHINGTON – Come June 30, 2010, there will be 52 fewer parishes in the Cleveland Diocese.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop Walsh ready to shock basketball world

Just before he took the Millennium Falcon into an asteroid field in the “The Empire Strikes Back,” movie character Han Solo was told his slim probability of survival.

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January 19, 2012

Father Martin, ‘ultimate miracle worker,’ laid to rest

Whether rich or poor, young or old, famous or unknown, recovering substance abusers spent the last few weeks crowding the dining room of Father Martin’s Ashley treatment center in Havre de Grace.

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January 19, 2012

At U.N, College of Notre Dame students promote women’s equality.

As College of Notre Dame of Maryland sophomore Jessica Rohaly recently prepared for a trip with students and faculty to the United Nations in New York, she knew she couldn’t squander her chance to lobby the world’s leaders.

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January 19, 2012

Splendidly pure: Receiving indulgences in the year of St. Paul

VATICAN CITY – As spring started showing its colors in Rome, many of the pilgrims coming out of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls were glowing – and not only because the sun was shining brightly.

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January 19, 2012

Adoration is key attitude toward Eucharist, even at Mass, pope says

VATICAN CITY – Because Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, adoration must be a Catholic’s primary attitude toward the Blessed Sacrament at Mass as well as when praying before the tabernacle, Pope Benedict XVI said.

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January 19, 2012

One job in high demand in troubled times: Counseling the unemployed

WASHINGTON – As the March unemployment numbers showed another increase in the percentage of jobless people, one profession is, perversely, in greater demand: those who can provide counseling services to people whose emotional distress has outpaced their financial distress.

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January 19, 2012

Pope laicizes suspended Missouri priest who led dissident church

ST. LOUIS – Pope Benedict XVI has laicized a suspended priest of the Diocese of Springfield-Cape Girardeau who had been hired by the board of directors of the St. Stanislaus Kostka Corp. to be pastor of its church in St. Louis.

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January 19, 2012

In one Kenyan diocese, an alternative rite of passage for girls

MERU, Kenya – A Kenyan diocese is giving girls a chance to grow up without participating in the traditional tribal rite of female circumcision, a practice that carries the risk of disease or death.

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January 19, 2012

US church’s costs for clergy sex abuse topped $436 million last year

WASHINGTON – U.S. dioceses and religious orders spent more than $436 million in 2008 on settlements and other costs related to clergy sex abuse, a decrease of 29 percent over the $615 million paid out in the peak year of 2007.

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