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January 19, 2012

Gibbons football off to fresh start as quarterback returns from Israel

With a new coach in 1987 alum Scott Ripley, the football program at The Cardinal Gibbons School, Baltimore, is ready for a change.

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January 19, 2012

Local Medical Mission Sister celebrates 60th jubilee

Sister Mary Louise Lynch’s 60 years as a Medical Mission Sister will be celebrated Aug. 15 with a Mass and reception at the sisters’ North American headquarters in Philadelphia. A Baltimore native, Sister Mary Louise entered the Medical Mission Sisters in 1944 after high school. She received a journalism degree from Marquette University and a...

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January 19, 2012

Archdiocesan institutions receive Knott grants

Ten institutions of the Archdiocese of Baltimore were among 34 organizations to receive grants from the Knott Foundation, which was founded in 1977 by Marion I. and Henry J. Knott.

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January 19, 2012

YouthWorks focus shines on Mercy

When it came time for Gov. Martin O’Malley to acknowledge Baltimore City’s YouthWorks program, he did so at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore, which this summer gave eight teens valuable job experience and sponsored the employment of another seven elsewhere.

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January 19, 2012

Sister Frances Watkowski, S.S.N.D.

A funeral Mass for Sister Frances Watkowski, S.S.N.D., was offered July 19 at Villa Assumpta in Baltimore followed with internment at Notch Cliff Cemetery in Glen Arm. Sister Frances died July 16; she was 83.

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January 19, 2012

Mexican activist praises Catholic Church’s work on immigration

WASHINGTON – Mauricio Farah Gebara, an official with the National Commission of Human Rights in Mexico, praised the Catholic Church in Mexico and in the United States for their “outstanding work on behalf of immigrants and their families.”

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January 19, 2012

As Olympian, ‘lost boy’ looks to raise awareness about Darfur genocide

SYRACUSE, N.Y. – In 2001, some “lost boys of Sudan” arrived in the U.S. and the first phase of their long run from the horrors of their homeland’s civil war was fading in the distance.

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January 19, 2012

Calls for action, prayer follow professor’s desecration of host

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The pastor of the Catholic parish in Morris and a spokeswoman for the Diocese of St. Cloud have urged Catholics to contact the University of Minnesota-Morris to express their anger about a professor who desecrated a host reported to be consecrated.

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January 19, 2012

Speaker says bold spirituality needed to fight ‘culture of silence’

ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – A Mercy sister used Gospel stories to help illustrate how to develop a spirituality she said is needed to boldly speak out against a “culture of silence” that allows oppression and gender-based violence.

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January 19, 2012

Vatican laicizes Paraguayan bishop elected president

ASUNCION, Paraguay – The Vatican has laicized a bishop elected Paraguayan president, allowing him to take office in August without violating church law, said the papal nuncio to Paraguay.

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