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Westminster school offered support in face of Westboro protesters

WESTMINSTER – As the Supreme Court considers a high-profile case involving the Westboro Baptist Church, much media attention has focused on what the Kansas church members did outside St. John parish during Lance Corporal Matthew Snyder's 2006 funeral.
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Men in Black showdown a slam dunk success

Father T. Austin Murphy paced courtside in Archbishop Spalding High School’s gymnasium Nov. 5.
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Democrats retain control in Maryland

Mary Ellen Russell wasn’t surprised Marylanders bucked national trends in the Nov. 2 election. While voters in many other states entrusted their legislatures to the GOP, Marylanders returned a Democratic majority to the General Assembly.
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Ehrlich promises to bring change to Maryland

ANNAPOLIS – Former Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. thought his career in politics was finished four years ago, when he lost his bid for reelection.
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Justice Scalia urges Christians to have courage

ANNAPOLIS – Although the sophisticated may deride them as simple-minded, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said traditional Christians should have the courage to embrace their faith.
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Bishop Madden, priests from Baltimore visit college in West Bank

BETHLEHEM, West Bank – The newest building at Bethlehem University, completed in the year 2000 and appropriately called the Millennium Building, was struck by shells fired by the Israelis. Other parts of the campus were hit as well.
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St. Frances dedicates basketball court to nun

Many high school basketball fans have crystallized the multi-championship, 1995-1996 season for St. Frances Academy’s boys basketball team into All-American Mark Karcher doing everything himself.
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Hermit lives out ancient vocation in Essex

ESSEX – It once served as a fisherman’s shack on the banks of Norman Creek.
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Former Annapolis and Baltimore pastor paralyzed in freak accident

Redemptorist Father John Murray, former pastor of St. Mary, Annapolis, and St. Wenceslaus, Baltimore, was paralyzed from the chest down in a freak accident Aug. 27.
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St. Louis School in Clarksville wins Blue Ribbon honor

CLARKSVILLE – St. Louis School principal Terry Weiss sat in her Clarksville office on the evening of Sept. 8 reading e-mails.
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Baltimore’s Bishop Spencer installed for Military Archdiocese

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services ordained one of Baltimore’s own as the next auxiliary bishop of the military archdiocese during a Sept. 8 Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.
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