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Students at St. Joan of Arc School participate in conclave web chat with Archbishop Lori
The eighth grade students at St. Joan of Arc School participated in a Conclave web chat with William E. Lori, Archbishop of Baltimore, on March 11. St. Joan of Arc School was one of 17 Catholic elementary schools invited to participate. Archbishop Lori...Tags: Religious Leaders, William E. Lori, Students, Elementary Schools, Archdiocese of Baltimore
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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, Benedict XVI, Vatican City
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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: Bars and Clubs, Francis I, France, Belvedere Square, Catholic Relief Services
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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: Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Television, Christianity, Papal Conclave (2013), The Washington Post
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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: Francis I, Same-Sex Marriage, AIDS, Christianity, Physical Fitness and Exercise
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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: Parochial Schools, Argentina, Customs and Tradition, Religious Education, Christianity
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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: Social Media, Vatican City, Christianity, Papal Conclave (2013), Anglicanism
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Bel Air Catholics discuss papacy, sex abuse, priesthood, other church issues
Parishioners spoke their minds on Catholic church issues, including some people's dissatisfaction with the direction of the papacy, during a frank, emotional discussion held at Bel Air's St. Margaret Church on Sunday afternoon. Organized by Msgr....
Tags: Religious Leaders, Abusive Behavior, Christianity, Benedict XVI, Roman Catholicism
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The Pope Benedict I know
Years ago, I accompanied James Cardinal Hickey, then the archbishop of Washington, to St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger was to give a lecture. After his lecture and after fielding questions from his...
Tags: Religious Leaders, Separation of Church and State, James A. Hickey, Archdiocese of Baltimore, Belief and Faith
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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: Religious Leaders, Elections, Vatican City, Rome (Italy), Italy
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Catholics surprised by Benedict's resignation
Crystal Sewell knows what she wants to see in the next pope: a combination of the last two. "I'm a conservative soul," the 29-year-old Reservoir Hill woman said Monday after the midday Mass at St. Alphonsus Church in downtown Baltimore. "I feel like John...
Tags: Global Expansion, Christianity, Archdiocese of Baltimore, John Paul II, Roman Catholicism
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O'Brien becomes Catholic cardinal Saturday
Even as he prepared in Rome for the weekend ceremony that will elevate him to cardinal, Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien vigorously lobbied for political issues important to the Roman Catholic Church — a hallmark of his five-year stint here....Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Justice System, Loyola University Maryland, Health Insurance, Christianity
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