BHUBANESWAR, India – The Catholic Church in Orissa offered support to villagers fighting a Korean steel giant that they say threatens to displace thousands of people with its planned $12 billion development project in eastern India.
BHUBANESWAR, India – The Catholic Church in Orissa offered support to villagers fighting a Korean steel giant that they say threatens to displace thousands of people with its planned $12 billion development project in eastern India.
Archbishop Edwin O’Brien announced plans to revitalize Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore at a press conference held earlier today at the Catholic Center. The plan, detailed in a new report entitled, “Preserving the Tradition, Transforming the Future: The Rebirth of Catholic Schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore,” is a culmination of more than 12 months […]

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien officially announced the consolidation of 13 schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore March 4, while saying he remained “whole-heartedly committed to Catholic education in Baltimore – the birthplace of Catholic schools some 200 years ago.”

A day after finding out their school would be one of 13 consolidating in June, about 150 students and supporters of The Cardinal Gibbons School showed their spirit March 4 outside the Catholic Center, the Archdiocese of Baltimore headquarters.
WASHINGTON – The chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Committee on International Justice and Peace has asked the Obama administration to ensure that the Iraqi government takes steps to protect minorities, especially Christians, in the embattled country.
In advance of the March 4 release of the Consolidation Plan and Report for archdiocesan schools, Archbishop Edwin F. O´Brien sat down with Catholic Review associate publisher/editor Christopher Gunty to discuss the process that led to the decisions, and the ramifications. Click here to read the Q & A

Joe Boylan was finishing the eighth grade at the parish school at St. Charles Borromeo in Pikesville in 1952, when his parents delivered bad news: their finances would not allow him to attend what is now Loyola Blakefield.
The Archdiocese of Baltimore informed principals and student-families today that the following 13 schools will be consolidated at the end of the current school year. Ascension School St. Bernardine Catholic School St. Clare School Catholic Elementary & Middle School Holy Family School St. Katharine School Mother Mary Lange Catholic School Our Lady of Fatima School […]
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is set to announce the consolidation of an unspecified number of schools March 4.

Mount St. Joseph, behind two-time Player of the Year Eric Atkins, earned the top seed and a first-round bye in the 39th annual Baltimore Catholic League tournament. The boys’ basketball showcase, at Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena, begins Feb. 27 and concludes March 1.
The Catholic Review I must not have been more than six or seven. My brothers and I would dutifully accompany my mother many a Monday night for the novena of the Miraculous Medal, a strong devotion of the day evidenced by a large parish church half-filled. The priest would lead the novena from the pulpit. […]
