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Notre Dame of Maryland students recreate 99-year-old photos
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Notre Dame of Maryland students recreate 99-year-old photos

Adam ZielonkaMay 6, 20223 min read
The cast of Notre Dame of Maryland University’s production of the Shakespearean comedy “As You Like It” joined forces with a class of digital photography students to recreate 99-year-old images of their predecessors, with the results now on display in an online exhibit.
Emmitsburg grotto awaits return of statue of Blessed Virgin Mary
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Emmitsburg grotto awaits return of statue of Blessed Virgin Mary

Gerry JacksonMay 5, 20224 min read
A 25-foot statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary is expected to be returned to its high perch at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes overlooking the campus and surrounding countryside this summer.
Report: Kids’ time spent on screen soars during the pandemic
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Report: Kids’ time spent on screen soars during the pandemic

Mark PattisonApril 27, 20226 min read
Use of screen media per day is up 17 percent for teens (ages 13-18) and tweens (ages 8-12) from the start of the pandemic, according to Common Sense Media. And that doesn’t take into account time spent attending school virtually and doing homework.
Sulpician Father Peter Gray’s art deepens faith
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Sulpician Father Peter Gray’s art deepens faith

George P. Matysek Jr.March 31, 20225 min read
For Father Gray, art is his full-time ministry. He spends hours a day working on a paint-splattered kitchen table to create sacred and secular art.
Youthful voices fill Baltimore Basilica with sacred song
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Youthful voices fill Baltimore Basilica with sacred song

Todd KarpovichMarch 14, 20225 min read
The voices of young singers filled the chambers of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore with sacred songs.
Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure
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Cancel Crusade: How gossip, scandal ruined a rare Renaissance treasure

Carol GlatzFebruary 17, 20226 min read
During a lecture Feb. 15 in Rome, Francesco Buranelli, president of the Commission for the Protection of Monuments of the Holy See and former director of the Vatican Museums, presented a picture of what can happen when fierce family rivalries, a Counter-Reformation “cancel culture” and 500 years of “fake news” find the perfect target in a problematic pope.
Australian Mercy sister who got gold records for Our Father recording dies
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Australian Mercy sister who got gold records for Our Father recording dies

Catholic News ServiceFebruary 2, 20223 min read
Mercy Sister Janet Mead, who earned gold records for her 1974 hit version of the Our Father, died Jan. 26 in her native Adelaide. She was 84 and had been battling cancer.
Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time
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Sculptor Edmonia Lewis shares message of human dignity through time

Dennis SadowskiJanuary 28, 20226 min read
Edmonia Lewis, the first African American and Native American sculptor to achieve international recognition through works that reflected her Catholic faith and the dignity of people, is being commemorated on a new postage stamp.
A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021
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A look at the Top 10 best movies overall and best family films of 2021

John MulderigJanuary 21, 202212 min read
Reviews of the Top 10 movies overall and seven of the best family films of 2021 as selected by the Media Review Office of Catholic News Service.
Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital
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Teen’s award-winning musical talents on display at monastery organ recital

Julie AsherNovember 22, 20214 min read
The sounds of a Bach fugue and several other musical works filled the sacred space of the church at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in Washington’s Brookland neighborhood as Gabriel Galdo played the monastery’s Lively-Fulcher organ.
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