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Archdiocese of Baltimore’s Blue Ribbon Committee

September 28, 2009

In February 2009, Archbishop Edwin O’Brien appointed a Blue Ribbon Committee on Catholic Schools and asked that it develop a strategic plan for Catholic schools by June 2010. As part of this effort, the committee and its staff are holding listening sessions at 10 locations throughout the Archdiocese. Catholic school parents, teachers, and others are […]

Mural beautifies John Paul II Prayer Garden

Catholic Review

September 28, 2009

News

The Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden in downtown Baltimore has a colorful new backdrop in the form of a large mural that covers most of one side of a parking garage on Charles Street.

Catholic organizations aid Philippine victims of flooding

Catholic Review

September 28, 2009

News

WASHINGTON – Catholic charitable organizations are stepping up to help victims in the Philippines after the worst flood in decades hit in late September.

Nobody Says It Better

Archdiocese Staff

September 24, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review Thanks to Archbishop Timothy Dolan, whose column in the September 10 issue of Catholic New York perfectly captures the fervor of so many of us in promoting our Catholic schools. Catholic Schools Are Worth the Effort Welcome back to school, students and teachers! God’s blessings upon a new academic year! (And parents, […]

Historic touches Mercy’s new hospital tower

Catholic Review

September 24, 2009

News

Cardinal James Gibbons first wielded the trowel in 1888 to lay the cornerstone of Mercy Hospital in Baltimore. Cardinal Lawrence Shehan used it again in 1963 when the current Mercy Medical Center tower was built.

No Time for Complacency

Archdiocese Staff

September 17, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review “A great prayer for life is urgently needed, a prayer which will rise up throughout the world.” These words of the late Pope John Paul II in his 1995 encyclical, Gospel of Life, are a call to action and a rallying cry for change—the kind of change that comes through the most […]

Obama speech should not have aired in classrooms

Catholic Review

September 17, 2009

News

Would someone please explain to me why my daughter (a fourth-grade student at St. Margaret’s School in Bel Air) is watching a speech, during her school day, delivered by a pro-choice president who nominated a radical abortion-rights advocate (Kathleen Sibelius, who has effectively been excommunicated from the church itself) to his cabinet?

Two Archdiocesan Schools Named National Blue Ribbon Schools

Sean Caine

September 15, 2009

Press Release

Two Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, St. John Regional School in Frederick and Resurrection-St. Paul School in Ellicott City, were named National Blue Ribbon Schools by the U.S. Department of Education earlier today, becoming the 12th and 13th Catholic schools in the Archdiocese to receive the honor. The designation is the highest academic […]

Vatican installs solar collectors for heating, cooling buildings

Catholic Review

September 11, 2009

News

VATICAN CITY – As part of its long-term clean-energy initiatives, the Vatican has installed high-tech solar collectors to help heat and cool its buildings.

Swiss Catholic bishops oppose proposal to ban construction of minarets

Catholic Review

September 11, 2009

News

FRIBOURG, Switzerland – The Swiss Catholic bishops’ conference said it opposed a proposal to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland.

What Might Have Been

Archdiocese Staff

September 10, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review One had to be deeply impressed by the farewell to Senator Ted Kennedy– Impressed, as well, by his life and accomplishments. In his personal life, his role as head of the extensive Kennedy clan the long years following the assassination of his two brothers could have been burdensome but, rather, seemed to […]

Archdiocese Releases Test Scores for Elementary Schools

Sean Caine

September 10, 2009

Press Release

The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced today that students in Catholic schools in the Archdiocese exceeded the national average on standardized test scores in every age group tested and in many cases students scored in the top third of students nationally. Scores for thestandardized achievement tests, administered earlier this year to students in grades three through […]

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