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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, Benedict XVI, Nottingham, Christianity, 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: College Basketball, CBS Corp., Benedict XVI, NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, Anglicanism
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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: Separation of Church and State, Benedict XVI, Students, Odilo Pedro Scherer, Timothy M. Dolan
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The mortal pope and eternal Rome
Growing up in Rome, not far from Saint Peter's Basilica (whose dome I could see from my parents' bedroom) I did not think much of my circumstance. I thought it was just normal to drive my scooter by the Vatican walls and to see the Swiss guards...
Tags: Italy, Religious Leaders, Rome (Italy), The Pope, Elections
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An evening of voice and piano, featuring a Bel Air native
Soprano Stacey Mastrian returns to her native Bel Air to present a recital of songs and arias in Italian, French, German, Spanish and English, with pianist Scott Crowne. The concert will be Friday, March 16, at 8 p.m. at the St. Mary Magdalen Mission...Tags: New York City, Martin Katz, Middlebury, Luigi Nono, The Washington Post
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Md. recognition of Piscataways adds happy note to complicated history
For as long as she can remember, Mervin Savoy has pressed the world to see her as she sees herself.
She refused to be bowed by the school officials who wouldn't let her write "American Indian" on forms identifying her race. She refused to be halted by...Tags: Turkey, Savoy (music group), Executive Branch, Mount Vernon, Vatican City
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Navy QB Dobbs' hometown recognizes his key play
Most college athletes spend their summers vacationing and preparing for the next season, very few spend it receiving a key to the city, unless you're Ricky Dobbs. Dobbs, the starting quarterback for the U.S. Naval Academy, was honored by his hometown...Tags: College Basketball, Trips and Vacations, Microsoft Corporation, ESPN (tv network), Air and Aviation Sports
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Former professor led Vatican office that enforces doctrine of faith
Sun National StaffAs soon as his name was read from a balcony of St. Peter's Basilica, Joseph Ratzinger was being considered a transitional pope because of his age - at 78, the oldest pontiff elected to lead the Roman Catholic Church in nearly three centuries. But when...Tags: Benedict XVI, World War II (1939-1945), Sociology, University of Notre Dame, John Paul II
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Out of silence, a melody rises
Sun Foreign StaffVATICAN CITY - St. Peter's Square yesterday was in many ways the portrait of an ideal spring day, sunny and warm and populated by hundreds of boisterous tourists. But that picture changed quickly. After Vatican officials went on television in the...Tags: Roman Catholicism, Death, John Paul II, The Pope, Christianity
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Ancient, secretive task awaits at conclave
Sun StaffVATICAN CITY - Tomorrow, 115 cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church will sequester themselves in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel for the beginning of the faith's most private and perhaps most important ritual, the election of a new pope. They will dress...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Benedict XVI, Europe, Death, John Paul II
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'I know he is at peace,' Keeler says
Sun StaffCardinal William H. Keeler, who is expected to be the first Baltimore archbishop in more than 100 years to participate in the ritualized process of selecting a pope, prayed for the ailing pontiff yesterday even as he prepared to clear his schedule for...Tags: William H. Keeler, Health and Safety at School, Islam, Death, Rome (Italy)
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