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Sunday, April 7 5K Annapolis Walk The Maryland Chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society sponsors its 5K Annapolis Walk from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, 500 Taylor Ave. in Annapolis. Walk begins at the stadium and...Tags: Real Estate Buyers, Breast Cancer, Entertainment Events, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Memorial Day
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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: Blackmail and Extortion, Vatican City, Benedict XVI, Christianity, Rome (Italy)
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America lags on plain speech
The Internet is changing how leaders talk. Leaders from Rome to Beijing and beyond are helping usher in a new era of plain speaking. But American leaders are lagging behind, stuck in old patterns of windy and obfuscatory speech. Around the globe, what's...
Tags: Budget Control Act of 2011, Social Media, Barack Obama, Layoffs and Downsizing, Reddit Inc.
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'Moment' is here for rabbi, Fulton congregation at Temple Isaiah
Temple Isaiah has had just three rabbis since it was founded in 1973. Stephen Fuchs led the reform temple from 1973 to 1986, and Mark J. Panoff was its rabbi from 1986 through 2012. The third is Craig Axler, who moved to Howard County from Pennsylvania to...
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Back Story: Red wine with papal ties
"Men are like wine — some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age." — Pope John Paul XXIII Nelson Carey, the genial publican at Belvedere Square's Grand Cru wine bar, is naturally filled with interesting and offbeat wine, beer and...
Tags: The Pope, Belvedere Square, France, Italy, Wines
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Francis' election as pope will strengthen the church
The election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio to the papacy is great news ("The election of Pope Francis," March 14). Cardinal Bergoglio is a genuinely spiritual soul, and a man of deep prayer who tends to accent growth in personal holiness...
Tags: AIDS, Same-Sex Marriage, Gays and Lesbians
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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: Entertainment Events, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Vatican City, Argentina, 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: College of Cardinals, John Paul II, AIDS, Argentina, Same-Sex Marriage
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Hundreds join archbishop for Mass to celebrate Pope Francis
Three deer scurried past the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen as Steve Thomas and his wife, Debbie, arrived for Sunday Mass to celebrate the new spiritual leader for Roman Catholics worldwide, Pope Francis. The symbolism struck the Arbutus man, who said the...
Tags: William E. Lori, College of Cardinals, Steve Thomas, Roman Catholicism, Benedict XVI
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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: The Washington Post, Italy, Same-Sex Marriage, Religious Leaders, Roman Catholicism
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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: Barry Bonds, Jim Rice, Roman Catholicism, Hank Aaron, Albert Pujols
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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: Physical Fitness and Exercise, The Pope, AIDS, Christianity, Same-Sex Marriage
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