Catholic Review, Author at Archdiocese of Baltimore

January 19, 2012

Curley wins track championship to make it four in a row

Archbishop Curley High School, Baltimore, won the MIAA track and field championship for the fourth consecutive year by holding off Mount St. Joseph High School, Irvington, and 11 other teams on May 17 at Calvert Hall College High School, Towson.

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January 19, 2012

A Letter to Parents

On June 21, 2008 my son, Deacon John Rapisarda, will be ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. For our family, this is a time of thanksgiving and overwhelming joy and inspiration.

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January 19, 2012

New Catholic fire chief focuses on safety, increased diversity

When then Minneapolis Fire Chief James Clack arrived on the scene of last year’s I-35W bridge collapse, he had a hard time believing it was real.

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January 19, 2012

Chinese Catholics observe silence to mourn quake victims

CHENGDU, China – Catholics joined other Chinese in observing three minutes of silence May 19 to pray for and mourn those killed by the earthquake that hit southwestern China a week earlier.

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January 19, 2012

Minister apologizes to Catholics; some question if politics behind it

WASHINGTON – After the Rev. John Hagee, a San Antonio televangelist, sent a letter to the head of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights apologizing for any comments he made “that Catholics have found hurtful,” the league’s president, William Donohue, said that “the case is closed.”

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January 19, 2012

The Liturgy of the Word

The following is the third part in a seven-part series on the Mass. Of the articles I am writing for this series on the Mass, I am really excited about this one: the Liturgy of the Word.

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January 19, 2012

St. Mary’s Seminary and University graduates class of 2008

Theologians, pastors, writers and religious leaders can engage in “radical reform” if they promote generosity as a fundamental component of a life of faith.

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January 19, 2012

Memorial Day may have begun with a small, touching moment

The actual origin of Memorial Day, once called Decoration Day, is unclear, except that at first it was most certainly a response to the terrible tragedy of the Civil War in which so many Americans on both sides died on and off the battlefields.

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January 19, 2012

St. Martin’s Home resident turns 100

A 35-year resident of St. Martin’s Home for the Aged, Catonsville, which is run by the Little Sisters of the Poor, turned 100 years old. Imelda Smith commemorated the milestone birthday with the Little Sisters, residents, staff and friends in the St. Martin's Home auditorium.

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January 19, 2012

National coalition promotes collaboration to better serve needy

WASHINGTON – Competitive and territorial barriers that once kept Catholic agencies from working too closely together are slowly breaking down in communities across the country in favor of stronger collaboration to better serve clients in need, according to a national organization that promotes the benefits of cooperation among church-based ministries.

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January 19, 2012

Statue of St. Mother Theodore Guerin dedicated at national shrine

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of pilgrims from across the country joined the Sisters of Providence of St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Ind., for the dedication of a life-size sculpture of their foundress, St. Mother Theodore Guerin, at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington May 10.

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January 19, 2012

Bishop Malooly confirms nine deaf teens

IJAMSVILLE – Without uttering a word, nine teens from Central Maryland conveyed their love for their church using signs and gestures during a first-ever archdiocesan confirmation liturgy for the deaf community May 13.

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