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Catonsville girl receives transplant, but is rejecting heart
Ann Bartlinski placed the Eucharist and a pearl-beaded rosary blessed by the hands of the late Pope John Paul II on the chest of her 6-year-old daughter, Teresa, who lay Tuesday in a hospital bed, her tiny body rejecting a donor's heart. Teresa...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Stroke, Entertainment Events, Heart Disease
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Obama names former CRS head ambassador to the Vatican
President Barack Obama has nominated Ken Hackett, the humanitarian who served as president of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services for 18 years, as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The announcement, made Friday, means Hackett will become the...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Agriculture, Catholic Relief Services, Haiti Earthquake (2010)
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Oblate Sisters celebrate homecoming of a possible saint
From the prayer book she carried to the flower petals she kept pressed inside its pages, Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange has long been a vivid presence at the headquarters of the Oblate Sisters of Providence, the order of African-American Catholic nuns she...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, William E. Lori, Christianity
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The pope as a retiree
Pope Benedict XVI retires Thursday, and he leaves the workplace the way many of us would like to — on his own terms. He wasn't laid off at 50 with few transferable skills, required to retrain or reinvent himself and then compete for work with...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, The Pope, Benedict XVI
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A 'reformed' Catholic hopes Francis can heal the church
By coincidence, last Easter I was in St. Peter's Square in Rome as Pope Benedict XVI delivered what turned out to be his final Easter Mass as head of the Catholic Church. A week from Sunday, the new pope will deliver his first. Expectations for Pope...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Francis I, Blackmail and Extortion, Benedict XVI, Christianity
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Pope Francis: New salesman, same old product
For the first time in history, the Roman Catholic Church has a pope from the New World, but liberal American Catholics should not expect Pope Francis to stray far from the old theology. Some things are excitingly different about this new pontiff. On...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Francis I, Benedict XVI
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How Pope Francis can reinvigorate the church
Newly elected Pope Francis represents change in many respects. He is the first pope from the New World (and the first from outside of Europe in 1,200 years), the first Jesuit and the first Francis. But for American Catholics, who in poll after poll in...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Gays and Lesbians, Elections, AIDS, Environmental Politics
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Benedict leaves stage with dignity
You have to wonder what kind of fun Vatican mystery writer Dan Brown would have with the startling resignation of Pope Benedict XVI. As would be the case when any well-known CEO suddenly steps down "for health reasons," we are immediately suspicious....
Tags: Belief and Faith, Hillary Clinton, Elections, Parkinson's Disease, U.S. Supreme Court
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How to fix the Catholic Church
The Roman Catholic Church is at the most perplexing time in it's storied, at times sordid, history. For the first time in more than 600 years, a pope has chosen to retire, due mostly to deteriorating health issues. Is that truly the most prominent...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Vatican City, Nottingham, Benedict XVI, Christianity
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Catholic laity needs to be heard in selection of new pope
Since the resignation of Pope Benedict, we have been treated to the truly tawdry spectacle of life in the Vatican at this time in history. There are stories of Papal shoes, rings, palaces and castles. We see pictures of old men dressed in ecclesiastical...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Colleges and Universities, Roger M. Mahony, Benedict XVI, Christianity
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Election of first South American as pope excites local Catholics
Gail Liss, the front desk receptionist for Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, went to a dentist appointment at noontime Wednesday, confident that a new pope would not be chosen before she got back to work. Liss was wrong. While she sitting in the dentist...
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Elections, Charles Street, Parochial Schools
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Awaiting the white smoke of papal announcement
As their church's cardinals gathered in Vatican City to select a new pope, Catholic schoolchildren in the Baltimore area joined the worldwide buzz over the secret balloting process in an online chat with a fairly well-placed source: Archbishop William E....
Tags: Roman Catholicism, Students, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Elections, Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson
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