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At the request of the administration of Mount St. Joseph High School, members of the media will not be permitted inside the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen during the funeral Mass for Bro. James Kelly, C.F.X. Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 10:30 a.m. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate the Mass. Fr. Christopher Whatley, Pastor […]

Updated: Mount St. Joseph mourns revered president

Local News, News, Obituaries

Ever the poetic soul, Xaverian Brother James M. Kelly died as the sun was rising Dec. 3, the feast day of his congregation’s patron, St. Francis Xavier.

Raphael’s “Madonna of the Candelabra

Christmas stamp features Walters Art Museum treasure by Raphael

George P. Matysek Jr.

Local News, News

A Raphael masterpiece that hangs in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is getting national attention this holiday season as the U.S. Postal Service features the “Madonna of the Candelabra” as one of its 2011 Christmas stamps.

Mount de Sales to build field, fine arts center

CATONSVILLE – When Beth Saverino was a Mount de Sales Academy student during the 1980s, she said students heard rumors of the Catonsville school closing.

Is TV phasing out?

WASHINGTON – In our media-saturated society, this rates as man-bites-dog news.

Downes happy to be home at O’Dwyer Retreat House

Michael Downes has come back home to the Monsignor O’Dwyer Retreat House.

Changes in parishes coming for Detroit Archdiocese beginning 2012

DETROIT – Nine metro Detroit parishes will close over the next five years if Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron accepts the recommendations a mostly lay advisory board approved Nov. 30.

Federal Court to Hear Oral Arguments Tuesday in Appeal of Lower Court Ruling in Favor of Baltimore’s Pro-Life Pregnancy Centers

Sean Caine

Press Release

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Richmond on Tuesday, December 6, in the appeal of a lower court’s ruling in the case of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. (GBCP) v. Baltimore City. The lawsuit stems […]

Criticism grows over Rhode Island governor’s ‘holiday tree’ label

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – A 17-foot Colorado blue spruce is standing tall at the center of controversy in the Rhode Island Statehouse rotunda for what it is being – or more importantly, not being – called.

Black Catholics’ survey finds strong ties, strong engagement in church

WASHINGTON – African-American Catholics are much more engaged in their church on a variety of levels than are white Catholics, concludes the first National Black Catholic Survey.

Religious advocacy measured less in dollars than in effectiveness