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| Updated: January 31st, 2012 |
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DEACON JIM & ANN CAVERA
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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One benefit of having sons and daughters in distant places is that we sometimes get wonderful letters. Our daughter, Katie, once wrote a letter about a visit she made to one of the 400 small islands in the San Blas Territory off the coast of Panama. The Kuna Indians on these islands have maintained ...
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FATHER ROBERT HAAS
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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With the fall of Saigon in 1975 Catholic Charities USA, Lutheran Social Services, and several other private, mostly religious, agencies were called upon to resettle refugees from Vietnam and Laos.
Toledo Catholic Charities resettled some 1,000 refug...
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ANN BARRICK
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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“This is fertile ground,” I told Matt, a seminarian in our diocese, who had been praying with us during a monthly Youth Hour of Prayer outside the Center for Choice, a Toledo abortion clinic. He had just returned from pushing Keith, a wheelchair-...
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ANGELA KESSLER, Chronicle Editor
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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February is the time traditionally set aside to celebrate the work of the Catholic Press. While I haven’t been able to pinpoint when this practice began, Catholic Press Month is the subject of a Time magazine article dated Feb. 4, 1924. Even though...
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JERRY COSTELLO, The Christophers
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Friday, 03 February 2012
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The civil rights struggle of the 1950s and 1960s is something fresh in my memory, and at times it’s hard to realize that not everyone shares those recollections. The fact is, I have to keep reminding myself, that for many young people what they kno...
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GEORGE WEIGEL Friday, 03 February 2012 Václav Havel, who died this past Dec. 18, was one of the great contemporary exponents of freedom lived nobly. His moral mettle proved true in both the world of ideas and the world of affairs; indeed,... |
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FATHER TADEUSZ PACHOLCZYK Friday, 03 February 2012 During a 2011 roundtable discussion on Fox News, guest commentator Jay Thomas argued that young people should not be too concerned when it comes to pre-marital sex, because nobody would choose to “b... |
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ANGELA KESSLER, Chronicle Editor Tuesday, 31 January 2012 A mix of spirituality and history was on order for today. We began with a visit to the Church of the Ascension, which is located at the top of the Mount of Olives. This was one of the first four churc... |
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ANGELA KESSLER, Chronicle Editor Monday, 30 January 2012 How does one put into words the feelings and emotions of a day spent in Bethlehem and the Old City of Jerusalem? I touched the birthplace of Christ. I touched the same wall He did when he stumbled wit... |
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ANGELA KESSLER, Chronicle Editor Sunday, 29 January 2012 The day started early with a 6:45 a.m. meeting time to give the group time to attend the 7 a.m. Mass at the Basilica of the Annunciation, which we had visited during our first day in Nazareth. While t... |
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