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Assumption College drops SAT, ACT admission requirements

July 17, 2009

WORCESTER, Mass. – Assumption College officials announced that they will no longer require prospective students to provide SAT or ACT standardized scores when applying to the 105-year-old Worcester college founded by the Assumptionists.

Basque bishops apologize for 1930s deaths of priests by Franco troops

Catholic Review

July 17, 2009

News

VITORIA, Spain – Catholic bishops from Spain’s Basque region have apologized for keeping quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.

Towson Catholic Closing

Archdiocese Staff

July 16, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review The past week has been a difficult one for everyone who supports Catholic education in our Archdiocese, most especially those people with ties to Immaculate Conception Church and Towson Catholic High School. Not unlike other places, people here develop strong emotional and family loyalties to their schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, elementary and […]

Towson Catholic Closing

Archdiocese Staff

July 16, 2009

OBrien Articles

Catholic movie review – Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Catholic Review

July 16, 2009

News

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Statement of Archbishop Edwin O’Brien on the Closing of Towson Catholic High School

Sean Caine

July 8, 2009

Press Release

I am deeply saddened by the closure of Towson Catholic and troubled by the circumstances that seemed to have left the parish and school board with no other choice. The closing of this beloved institution is a source of pain for students, teachers, alumni and the parish. Every effort is being made to ensure the […]

Towson Catholic High School to Close

Sean Caine

July 7, 2009

Press Release

Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder, Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson, has informed Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien that the parish high school, Towson Catholic, will not reopen in the fall due to an insurmountable budget deficit caused by a sharp decline in enrollment. With only 163 students currently enrolled for the coming school year, a […]

Bishops’ policy quite clear

Catholic Review

July 7, 2009

News

I would question the value of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops spending time to revisit their 2004 policy to not give a public platform to anyone opposed to church teachings at their upcoming November meeting in Baltimore. Some institutions will likely it ignore it anyway.

Gibbons phasing out middle school

Catholic Review

July 7, 2009

News

A previously announced plan that would have resulted in The Cardinal Gibbons School and The Seton Keough High School sharing a president has been “placed on hold.”

Honduran Catholic aid official worried about human rights after coup

Catholic Review

June 30, 2009

News

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras – A Catholic aid official expressed concern about human rights in the country in the wake of a military coup, which he called the expected outcome of a political crisis.

Bishop Rozanski blesses St. Peter at the Lake

Catholic Review

June 30, 2009

News

Christ famously went to the shore to call St. Peter and others to be his disciples. A Western Maryland parish named in the famous fisherman’s honor has been doing the same thing at Deep Creek Lake for decades even though it had no home to call its own.

Former St. Rita School principal dies

Catholic Review

June 29, 2009

News

A funeral Mass for Immaculate Heart of Mary Sister Mary Mark Carnes, a former principal of St. Rita School in Dundalk, was offered June 30 at St. Rita. Sister Mary Mark died June 26; she was 82.

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