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House votes to repeal death penalty
The General Assembly voted to repeal the death penalty Friday, calling for an end to Maryland's 375-year history of capital punishment and joining a growing number of states outlawing the practice. After nearly two hours of impassioned debate, the House...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Values, Jamin B. Raskin, Montgomery County (Maryland), William E. Lori
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Harford County residents glad to hear of new pope
Around 2 p.m. Wednesday, the bell at Saint Margaret Parish in Bel Air pealed as word quickly spread from faithful observers in St. Peter's Square in Rome throughout the world that white smoke was pouring from the chimney at the Vatican, the formal...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, The Washington Post, Television, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), The Pope
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Popes and home runs
The Baltimore SunBaltimore is a rather Catholic town; if you ever lived here you know that. I was born and raised an Irish Catholic in Baltimore; if you frequent this blog you may have known that. Baseball is the ultimate sport for bizarre connections to history. No...Tags: Albert Pujols, Barry Bonds, Benedict XVI, Harmon Killebrew, Jim Rice
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Wedded: Dana Perzynski and Graham Johnson
Wedding date: Feb. 9, 2013 Her story: Dana Perzynski, 28, grew up in Columbia. She is an associate planner with Ayers Saint Gross, an architectural and planning firm in Baltimore. Her mother, Karen Kurzawa, is a commercial interior representative; her...
Tags: Family, Pikesville, Ayers Saint Gross, Marriage, Weddings
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New pope is inspiring signal to jaded U.S. Catholics
Be still, my somewhat jaded American Catholic heart: A Jesuit? A Jesuit from Argentina who, as archbishop then cardinal, eschewed the chauffeur-driven limousine for the public buses of Buenos Aires? A Jesuit devoted to social justice and to helping the...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Christianity, AIDS, Francis I
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Catholic students in Catonsville area react to news of new pope
The reaction at Mount de Sales Academy in Catonsville to this week's announcement of a new pope in Italy rivaled that of the eager onlookers across the Atlantic Ocean, according to the principal of the all-girls Catholic high school on Academy Road....
Tags: Schools, Papal Conclave (2013), High Schools, Christianity, Atlantic Ocean
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Carroll County Catholics celebrate announcement of new pope
Catholics in Carroll County joined those around the world in celebrating the announcement that Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina had been named Pope Francis, the 266th pope, on Wednesday. The new pope succeeds Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned...
Tags: Papal Conclave (2013), Christianity, Francis I, Benedict XVI, Mount Airy
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Baltimore Catholics see fresh outlook from new pope
Surprise turned into joy as Baltimore Catholics celebrated the election of the first Latin American and first Jesuit pope, saying it offered an often-hidebound church a chance for rejuvenation. "One time, John Paul the Great called America, meaning...
Tags: Belief and Faith, Argentina, Martin O'Malley, AIDS, Caribbean Islands
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Howard Catholics celebrate new pope
As Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina took the name of Francis I and assumed the papacy Wednesday, March 13, Catholic leaders across Howard County rejoiced, calling the selection a hopeful sign from the church. "It's wonderful. Right now I'm just...
Tags: Papal Conclave (2013), Ellicott City, Christianity, Francis I, Easter
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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: Dentistry and Dental Health, Customs and Tradition, Argentina, Hunt Valley, Vatican City
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Following the papal conclave from afar
Roman Catholic cardinals went into a virtual news blackout Tuesday as they began to elect a new pope, but that has only heightened interest in what's happening behind the closed doors of their conclave. "I just had 'smoke cam' on my screen," said...
Tags: Twitter, Inc., Basketball, Vatican City, CBS Corp., The Pope
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Herbert C. Forrester Jr., CSX official
Herbert Christian Forrester Jr., a retired railroad vice president, died of coronary artery disease Thursday at Mays Chapel Ridge Assisted Living. The former Cockeysville resident was 88.
Born in Baltimore and raised in Windsor Hills, he was the son of...Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Hunt Valley, Christianity, St. Joseph Medical Center, Railway Transportation
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