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Margaret Wiley is thankful to St. Agnes Hospital for helping her quit smoking. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Gary Gately
The Catholic Review
Laurie Long gives thanks for the one surgeon who would operate on her – all 440 pounds of her. Margaret Wiley saw divine intervention in the doctors and nurses who persuaded her to quit smoking after 50-plus years of puffing butts. Another patient recalled the “angels” in the hospital’s cancer center.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
Archdiocesan leaders are hopeful Maryland will soon end the death penalty after a state commission recommended its abolition Nov. 12.
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By Gary Gately
The Catholic Review
A Catholic group of priests, former priests and laypeople called on U.S. bishops Nov. 11 to condemn war.
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By Jennifer Williams
The Catholic Review
Our Lady of the Fields, Millersville, parishioner Ligaya Quirk said it was a desire to thank men and women religious for their services that inspired the Archbishop Francis P. Keough Council Knights of Columbus Ladies Auxiliary to host a luau in their honor.
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The Catholic Review
St. Gregory the Great, Baltimore, is kicking off a yearlong celebration of its 125th anniversary on Nov. 23.
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Michelle Mileka, a senior at Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, painted this version of Rosie the Riveter, hung here in the school library during a session with eight “Rosies” as they shared their World War II work experiences. (Courtesy of NDP)
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By Suzanne Molino Singleton
The Catholic Review
As part of a women’s novels study, Notre Dame Preparatory School, Towson, hosted eight Rosie the Riveters Nov. 5 who took turns speaking to students about their work experiences during World War II.
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John Harbaugh, the Ravens’ first-year head coach, relaxes in his office. Harbaugh is a lifelong Catholic and parishioner at The Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
Not long ago, John Harbaugh walked into a barbershop near his home off Falls Road. As the wholesome-looking 46-year-old sat in the barber’s chair with a smock draped around his torso, a young hairdresser carefully snipped his closely-cropped brown hair.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
Monsignor Francis X. Zorbach, a popular longtime pastor of St. Philip Neri in Linthicum Heights who was highly regarded for his support of Catholic education, died Nov. 8. He was 81.
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Hole-in-one winner Thomas “Doc” Keane III (right) in Archbishop Spalding High School’s golf tournament was one of two hole-in-ones in the same day. He poses with Dr. Michael Murphy, school president. (Courtesy Archbishop Spalding High School)
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By Catholic Review Staff
When Archbishop Spalding High School, Severn, hosted the Cavalier Open Golf Tournament at Compass Pointe Golf Course in Pasadena Oct. 10, the committee was proud to report more than $100,000 was raised to benefit the school’s athletic programs.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
Father Patrick Peach is turning in his black clerics and white collar for a brown tunic.
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Participants at this year’s Gala of Hope bid on Haitian artwork during the annual event’s silent auction Nov. 8. (CR STAFF/George P. Matysek Jr.)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
Children in the impoverished Diocese of Gonaives, Haiti, are one step closer to getting a new secondary school thanks to parishioners throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
Like any parent, Stuart Czapski always felt his daughter, Ann, was special.
He saw the eldest of his four children as a kind person devoted to her faith and community who also excelled in the classroom.
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By Catholic Review Staff
The second annual Catholic Charities’ Christmas Festival Concert at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary will be held Dec. 11.
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Juana Landaverde (left) joins other Hispanics at the “Explosion Juvenil” (Young Adult Explosion) at Sacred Heart, Glyndon, Nov. 8, in small group discussions on ways to continue their faith in the Catholic Church. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
They sang. They danced. They praised. They were at ease.
Hispanic young adults came together Nov. 8 at Sacred Heart School in Glyndon for Explosion Juvenil (Young Adult Explosion), a motivational rally for people inside the Archdiocese of Baltimore to share their talents and faith with the world.
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Jimmy Hock (left) and Andrew Rusk join parishioners of St. John the Evangelist, Hydes, in prayer for Katherine and Wilson Brady who were killed in a car accident on Nov. 7. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
Parishioners of St. John The Evangelist sat in the pews of the Hydes church Nov. 8 sobbing, hugging one another and looking for solace. Parents wiped away tears of their young sons, some of whom were clad in Cub Scout uniforms.
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William Privett of Buffalo, N.Y., and Father Bernard Survil of Greensburg, Pa., conduct a peace vigil in front of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Baltimore, Nov. 11. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Gary Gately
The Catholic Review
A Catholic group of priests, former priests and laypeople called on U.S. bishops Nov 11 to condemn war.
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
Megan Nappi didn’t mince words as she sat in a circle with young adults from Baltimore and Washington, surrounded by some of the nation’s leading adolescent catechesis experts Nov. 6 at the Maritime Institute and Conference Center in Linthicum.
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By Catholic Review Staff
The pipe organ plays heavenly music once more at the newly reopened Provincial Chapel of the Sisters of Bon Secours at Bon Secours Spiritual Center in Marriottsville.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
The election of Sen. Barack Obama generated a decidedly mixed response from Catholic leaders throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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By Catholic Review Staff
For nearly 40 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been helping the poor help themselves.
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By Paul McMullen
The Catholic Review
“Look at that accomplishment. When you face the Lord, that’s the kind of thing you want to talk about.”
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Some 20 students from Baltimore’s Cardinal Gibbons, Beth Tfiloh Jewish Community School, Bryn Mawr School and Catonsville’s Mount de Sales Academy participating in a pilot program of interfaith study, tour the residence of Cardinal William H. Keeler Nov. 6. The program is sponsored by the Baltimore Jewish Council and the Jewish Museum of Maryland. (CR STAFF/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
Michael Thomas feels compelled to reach out to his spiritual predecessors. The Cardinal Gibbons School junior also wants to make sure ethnic genocide never happens again.
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By Catholic Review Staff
For nearly 40 years, the Catholic Campaign for Human Development has been helping the poor help themselves.
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By Catholic Review Staff
A newly installed Rodgers Trillium Masterpiece three-manual organ was installed in St. Peter the Apostle, Libertytown, and will be dedicated in a concert Nov. 22 at 7 p.m. After a fire destroyed the original church in June 2004, the custom-made Rodgers digital pipe organ was purchased with parishioner and community donations during a capital campaign.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
The election of Sen. Barack Obama generated a decidedly mixed response from Catholic leaders throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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By Gary Gately
The Catholic Review
The morning after Barack Obama became the first African-American ever elected president of the United States, Skipp Sanders and fellow black Catholics in Baltimore rejoiced.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
When the Oblate Sisters of Providence say you can have a ball without leaving home, they really mean it.
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St. John the Evangelist, Frederick, parishioners Julie St. Croix (left), Madison Gamble with her mother, Tina and Cindy Woodruff with her children Heather, Collin and Logan display a quilt that was made in memory of Father Wayne G. Funk, who passed away Feb. 16. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
The Catholic Review
The Frederick church of a much-loved pastor who worked hard to make his faith community warm and welcoming now has a very appropriate symbol of his service: a decorative quilt emblazoned with the phrase, “a warm, welcoming and faith-filled man.”
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