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The Catholic Northwest Progress - Easter 2008

HOT VIDEO: A Vancouver teen’s online effort to help girls fight off attackers is drawing a worldwide audience

PEACE CRANES: A Bellevue boy headed to Japan got his school involved in crafting 1,000 paper peace cranes for a Hiroshima monument
The 'March for Life' marches on 
Noreen and Kathy McEntee
Noreen McEntee Hobson, is carrying on the pro-life work of lobbying legislators through the Washington State March for Life, an organization led by her late mother, Kathy McEntee, inset.

Visit achieved critical objectives
NEW YORK
By John Thavis
On his first trip to the United States, Pope Benedict XVI achieved three objectives that could be considered critical to the pastoral future of the American church. First, the pope brought a certain closure to the priestly sex abuse scandal that has shaken the church for more than six years.

Cool field trip saves salmon stream
LYNNWOOD
BY JOHN WOLCOTT
Seattle fifth graders dig stewardship, planting more than 500 trees and shrubs in a single day to stabilize creek bank and safeguard fish

Pro-Life Cause Marches On
When it comes to the pro-life movement, things have changed.  Just ask Dan Kennedy, Human Life of Washington CEO.  "In 1973 when I heard the announcement, I cheered the announcement of Roe v. Wade,” Kennedy said.  “I was very much a supporter, and now look where I am today.”

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Their 'Knight in shining armor' 
Ricardo Diaz-Pere
Ricardo Diaz-Perez is ceremonially knighted again for the benefit of his family’s photo album by Wayne Hogan, State Master of the Fourth Degree.

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