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An artist's rendering of the planned renovation of the University of Maine's Newman Center chapel. / Courtesy of Pepperchrome Washington, D.C. Newsroom, Aug 28, 2021 / 06:00 am (CNA). Situated among fraternity houses along College Avenue, the University of Maine’s Newman Center in Orono, Maine could easily be mistaken for another Greek house. Save for the sign out front displaying Mass times, and a “RUSH JESUS” banner on the side of the building, there is little that indicates the Newman Center is the spiritual home of the university’s Catholics.  There’s no tower, no church bells, and no visible stained glass windows or other things one would typically associate with a Catholic church.  But now, thanks to an anonymous $1.25 million donation, that will all be changing soon, as the center plans on breaking ground next year on a “truly Catholic” renovation of the building.  “The spiritual state of the Ne

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