Two Baltimore nuns who have been peace activists for decades expressed shock that Maryland State Police listed them as suspected terrorists in a federal database.Read More

EMMITSBURG – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien helped close a yearlong celebration of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and University’s bicentennial by re-consecrating the Emmitsburg institution to the Blessed Virgin Mary during an Oct. 10 Mass.Read More

WASHINGTON – Public service announcements on poverty and on marriage developed by the U.S. bishops rank high in the number of times the spots have aired.Read More

The Catholic Review (Sept. 11) showed Father Syracuse holding a compact fluorescent light bulb. That may have been the single best photo you’ve run all year to help struggling parishes meet their needs and serve their people. As your editorial (Sept. 25) said, “we can’t afford it” is heard much too often. Despite the somewhat...Read More

“Connect to Catholics” (CR, Sept. 25) was informative and historically interesting. Having taught in the archdiocese for eighteen years (4 at St. Stephen, Bradshaw and 14 at The Catholic High School of Baltimore), I would like to draw attention to another person who made a difference here – Mother Mary Generosa McCafferty, provincial of The...Read More

Throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore, pets received special blessings the weekend of Oct. 4-5 in commemoration of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. Some parishes holding pet blessings were St. Charles Borromeo in Pikesville, St. Casimir in Canton and Ss. Philip and James, Charles Village.Read More

LONDON – English officials exhuming the body of Cardinal John Henry Newman in preparation for his likely beatification discovered that his body had disintegrated completely.Read More

CAMBRIDGE – The vast majority of priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore are happy in their ministry and committed to serving the entire archdiocese, according to the results of a new survey obtained by The Catholic Review.Read More