Dennis Meehan, a 22-year principal of Bishop Ludden High School in Syracuse, N.Y., has been appointed by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien as principal of The Seton Keough High School, Baltimore, effective in July. Mr. Meehan, who was chosen by a five-member search committee of experienced educators in the Baltimore area, succeeds Dr. B. Curtis Turner,...Read More
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence and Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan of New York strongly criticized remarks by Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., about the U.S. bishops’ role in the health reform debate.Read More
WASHINGTON – Five years after the Department of Homeland Security was created as an umbrella agency, its handling of immigration-related situations came in for harsh criticism at an immigration law and policy conference May 20.Read More
WASHINGTON – Bishop Donald W. Trautman of Erie, Pa., former chairman of the U.S. bishops’ liturgy committee, sharply criticized what he called the “slavishly literal” translation into English of the new Roman Missal from the original Latin.Read More
PITTSBURGH – Manfred Honeck, the new music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, said he has come to understand how God has worked in his life and led him to where he is.Read More
Dr. Mary Pat Seurkamp, president of College of Notre Dame of Maryland, Baltimore, received a Leader in Education Award from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore.Read More
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.”Read More
Just two days after pulling off a gigantic upset of The Baltimore Sun’s No. 2 football team, Gilman, Calvert Hall’s Donald Davis was named High School Coach of the Week by the Baltimore Ravens Oct. 12.Read More