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Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, director of the Arc

Prayers offered for assaulted priest and alleged assailant

SINTON, Texas – In an example of the church’s prayerful response to violence within its own community, the people of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish in Sinton gathered in prayer with Corpus Christi Bishop Edmond Carmody May 10 for their parish priest and his alleged assailant.

Notre Dame is the one being defiant

Letter-writer Jeannette Mollenkopf (CR, May 14) thinks abortion is a “horrible crime,” but she doesn’t get the objection to Notre Dame’s invitation to Obama while Bush was welcomed.

Don’t tread on Catholics like me

Maryland Catholics need to wake up and take action. In Archbishop O’Brien’s column (CR, May 7) he talks about the silencing of Catholics in 1633 and again in 2009.

Protecting the Voice of God Within

Archdiocese Staff

May 14, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review Early this year a Baltimore woman asked me for an appointment to plead a very urgent cause. Years ago, after the birth of her first child, she consulted doctor after doctor, all of whom told her that her medical condition necessitated her sterilization. A strong, knowledgeable Catholic, she refused their counsel and […]

Irish cardinal attends Anglican synod, preaches in Trinity chapel

May 12, 2009

DUBLIN, Ireland – An Irish cardinal has made an unprecedented ecumenical gesture by attending a Church of Ireland service and by preaching in a once-forbidden Anglican chapel.

Calvert Hall principal awarded Christian Brothers highest honor

May 8, 2009

Calvert Hall College High School principal Louis E. Heidrick was to be presented the Letter of Affiliation by the Brothers of Christian Schools May 14.

Intimidated?

Archdiocese Staff

May 7, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review The seeds were probably sown centuries ago in a hostile atmosphere for Catholics in the New World. In 1633, as the earliest colonists were about to set sail for “Mary Land”, Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, instructed “his said Governor and Commissioners” that while sailing and upon arrival at their destination […]

Pietro Canzi

Parishioner prays for brother’s canonization

May 7, 2009

Glancing up at an oil painting of a boy dressed in a black cassock, white collar, wide-brimmed hat and round spectacles, Pietro Canzi struggled to hold back his emotions.

Cardinal Shehan students build robot

May 4, 2009

Dr. Ronald J. Valenti, archdiocesan superintendent of schools, and Jalon Payton (center) admire the robot built and programmed by a team that includes Dominic Neal (from left) and Mecca Murphy, sixth-grade members of the Cardinal Shehan School Technology Club April 24. Sponsored by technology coordinator Philip Lathroum and math teacher Douglas Weimer, the club has 22 members in grades four through eight.

Strengthen family and world will follow

May 1, 2009

The Archdiocese of Baltimore should reach out to strengthen every member of every family with Friday family nights. The recent murder-suicides are scandalous, and our Catholic families should not be involved in such terrible crimes. Visit the Web site www.prayforourleaders.com, and assist Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien to stop the murder, suicide and greed.

Notre Dame won’t give 2009 Laetare Medal, after Glendon rejects honor

May 1, 2009