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Church institutions in Pakistan threatened with bomb attack

LAHORE, Pakistan – A Catholic Church center in Pakistan’s cosmopolitan eastern city of Lahore has been threatened with a suicide bomb attack, one of a series of intimidating messages given to Christians as the country’s security crisis worsens.
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Polish archbishop urges people to keep late pontiff’s letters private

WARSAW, Poland – A Polish archbishop has urged people with letters from John Paul II not to publish them out of respect for the late pontiff.
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Bishop Walsh graduate likes being on the move

The hallways of Cumberland’s Bishop Walsh School are going to feel a bit empty this fall without Rachel Forlifer.
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Archbishop Spalding teen knows no boundaries

Eighteen-year-old Dan Gogue may believe in starting out small, but the articulate, passionate teenager has big dreams.
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Alumna becomes first Fulbright scholar in Mercy’s history

When Religious Sister of Mercy Carol Wheeler was teaching her introduction to philosophical thinking class during the 2004-2005 school year, she had many seniors who furthered discussion each day in the advanced, invitation-only course.
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Driven Maryvale athlete to play lacrosse for Georgetown

Maryvale Preparatory School’s soccer team didn’t have a great record when Sophia Thomas joined during her freshman year, but she was drawn to the indomitable team spirit.
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My Cleveland adventure

Some people take trips to exotic places, like Hawaii. Back in May, I went to Cleveland. I know how to enjoy myself!
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Part Three: Shortly After Our Founding

The year of 1860 brought drastic changes to the lives and history of the Oblate Sisters of Providence. There was personal loss in the death of Sister Angelica, who had been in charge of the boys’ school since it opened. There was congregational loss when the Redemptorists had to give up their directorship.
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Nuns use high-tech methods to spur vocations to religious life

WASHINGTON – With an estimated 184 million adults using the Internet and 75 percent of 18- to 34-year-olds having a Facebook or MySpace account, the Sisters of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus are going high-tech to spread information about their order and the call to a religious vocation.
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Rosary is family matter because ‘family matters,’ priest tells crowd

EASTON, Mass. – Holy Cross Father John Phalen told a crowd of about 1,000 Catholics at a June 6 rosary fest in Easton that “the rosary is a family matter because the family matters.”
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Tough economy forces Madison Diocese to freeze salaries, cut jobs

MADISON, Wis. – The Diocese of Madison announced May 28 that because of a downturn in its investment income in the past fiscal year, it is freezing all salaries and cutting several positions across the 11-county diocese.
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