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Church bell tower repairs signify change in Oliver neighborhood
A few weeks ago, I spent a few quiet minutes in Green Mount Cemetery, where its higher ground offers unexpected views of Baltimore. As I looked to the southeast, something curious caught my eye. What was going on in the nearby Oliver neighborhood? What...
Tags: Culture, Ceremonies, Building Material, Maryland Area Regional Commuter Train Service, Roman Catholicism
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Religious freedom under threat at home
On Friday, Catholics throughout the United States will begin observing two weeks known as the Fortnight for Freedom. For a second consecutive year, the U.S. Catholic Church has set aside this time leading up to Independence Day to draw attention to the...
Tags: William E. Lori, Church and State Relations, Francis I, Roman Catholicism, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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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: Peace Corps, Barack Obama, Haiti Earthquake (2010), Catholic Relief Services, Vatican City
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Calvert Hall alumnus Frank Bramble named interim president
Frank Bramble, Class of 1966, was named interim president of Calvert Hall College High School on Thursday afternoon. The announcement came in a press release by email a week after Brother Thomas Zoppo left the school after a four-year tenure, citing...
Tags: Bank of America Corp.
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Looking back on good times, troubled times at Gwynn Oak Park [Reisterstown]
Do you remember Gwynn Oak Junction? Then you may have gone to the movies at what was the Ambassador Theatre, bought your groceries at Schreiber's, purchased your very first Halloween costume at Read's, spent your allowance at Ben Franklin, and gotten your...
Tags: NAACP, Halloween, Starbucks Corp., Bell Centre, Reisterstown
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Religious groups pushing for city stormwater fee reduction
The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...
Tags: William E. Lori, Taxation, Business, Mary Pat Clarke, Environmental Pollution
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Scholars at St. Louis School scoop up scholarships [Clarksville]
Colleen Craig at St. Louis School can't believe it's already June and eighth-graders are graduating. Where do the years go? Time may seem to drag for the young, but it flies for adults. Thanks, Colleen, for taking time to share the news. Three St....Tags: Clarksville, Awards and Prizes
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Police investigating sex abuse allegations at Anne Arundel Catholic school
Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...
Tags: Glen Burnie, Police Investigations, Sexual Misconduct, Roman Catholicism, Christianity
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O'Malley signs death penalty repeal
Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...
Tags: NAACP, Republican Party, Scott Shellenberger, Illegal Immigrants, Lawyers
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O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal today
Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign legislation Thursday morning abolishing capital punishment in Maryland -- a goal of his since he took office in 2007. The governor's approval will make Maryland the 18th state to repeal the death penalty. A throng of...
Tags: NAACP, Government, Death Penalty, Punishment, Basilica of the Assumption
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Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned
Recession being the bane of piano retailers, it seems wholly remarkable that Harry Cohen and his son, Lou, decided to start selling Baldwins and Wurlitzers in 1937 — the year the economy relapsed toward the end of the Great Depression. But somehow...
Tags: Cecil County, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Montgomery County (Maryland), Music, Harford County
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Joseph E. Welsh, educator
Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...
Tags: Culture, Canton (Baltimore, Maryland), Parkville, Vanderbilt University , Graduation
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