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Norwegian sanctimony, global folly on Nobel

Catholic Review
October 22, 2009

The Norwegian Nobel Committee looked in the mirror, saw the president of the United States, and awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama. One is tempted to vary Rainer Maria Rilke (“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other”) and suggest that this was the meeting of two narcissisms. But that, as Richard Nixon might have said, would be wrong. The Nobel Committee is sufficiently enamored of its own moral superiority to ascribe its self-regarding virtues to any nominee it wishes.

White Mass Homily

Archdiocese Staff
October 18, 2009

My thanks to the Baltimore chapter of the Catholic Medical Association for choosing our beautiful Basilica of the Assumption to celebrate their annual White Mass. My special thanks to the Chapter and Dr. Marie Boursiquot, your President, for inviting me to lead you in the Eucharist and I welcome and greet all of you, especially […]

Archbishop Celebrates Mass for Catholic Physicians

Sean Caine
October 16, 2009

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate a Mass for Catholic medical professionals, including physicians, nurses, medical students, dentists, and scientists, as well as their families, on Sunday, October 18, at 2 p.m. at the Baltimore Basilica. In the Archbishop’s homily, he will address a number of issues of concern to the Church and to Catholic […]

Advisory: Sacrifices Ahead

Archdiocese Staff
October 15, 2009

The Catholic Review In a typically excellent column, Priest Magazine editor Monsignor Owen Campion tells the story of an aging rural pastor of three mission churches in the Midwest during the early 1940s. It was wartime. Young dads were in uniform far from home for a tour of duty of an indefinite duration, leaving the […]

Sisters’ Service a Blessing to All

Archdiocese Staff
October 8, 2009

The Catholic Review Many in the Archdiocese are probably aware of our Priests’ Council with whom I meet several times during the year. Consisting of 35 members representing various age groups, geographic locations, ministries, and religious and diocesan priests, this Council is both mandated by canon law and an invaluable assistance to me. Less known, […]

Sisters’ Service a Blessing to All

Archdiocese Staff
October 8, 2009

The Catholic Review Many in the Archdiocese are probably aware of our Priests’ Council with whom I meet several times during the year. Consisting of 35 members representing various age groups, geographic locations, ministries, and religious and diocesan priests, this Council is both mandated by canon law and an invaluable assistance to me. Less known, […]

Sis Carnes and Little Sister of the Poor Lawrence Pocock share a conversation. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)|

Little Sisters of the Poor minister to Maryland elderly for 140 years

George P. Matysek Jr.
October 8, 2009
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When 87-year-old Alice Jadwigia Armstrong looked up from her hospital bed and saw the smiling face of Sister Lourdes Miranda, she was visibly buoyed by the nun’s presence. Clasping the hand of the Little Sister of the Poor, the white-haired woman seemed transported to the security of her youth.

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