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Archbishop William E. Lori, center, supporters and dignitaries participate in a ceremonial groundbreaking Oct. 23 for the new Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in the Poppleton community adjacent to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. in Baltimore City. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Archdiocese breaks ground for Mother Mary Lange Catholic School

Christopher Gunty
October 23, 2019
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“I’m excited to see a beautiful new school be created on that site. I’m thinking about all the opportunity that this school will provide young people who live in our city, to grow in every way – spiritually, physically, intellectually, emotionally, socially,” the archbishop said.

Pallbearers escort the casket down the steps of St. Ignatius in Baltimore Oct. 23 after the funeral Mass offered for Thomas J. D’Alesandro III, the 43rd mayor of Baltimore. (Paul McMullen/CR Staff)

D’Alesandro remembered for dignity to those ‘on the margins’

Paul McMullen
October 23, 2019
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“The teachings of Jesus set your foundation,” Father Watters said. “As you especially championed African-Americans in this city, (the Gospel) resonated in your heart. … You modeled respect for all people, and dignity for those on the margins.”

An artist's rendering shows what Mother Mary Lange Catholic School will look like when it opens in September 2021. (CR File)

Archdiocese of Baltimore Breaks Ground on First New Baltimore City Catholic School in 60 years

Archdiocese of Baltimore
October 21, 2019

For Immediate Release Monday, October 21, 2019 Mother Mary Lange Elementary to Offer State-of-the Art Educational Facilities and Programs for over 500 City PreK3-8 Students (Baltimore, MD) — Representing a $24 million investment in the future of Baltimore City youth, Archbishop William E. Lori, with community leaders and city and state officials, will break ground […]

A prayer for Pietro

Suzanna Molino Singleton
October 21, 2019
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How is it people and young adults grow up Catholic, experience all there is taught to us about the Trinity through religion classes, nuns and priests’ instruction, get baptized, make first holy Communion, confess young sins in first reconciliation, invite a sponsor to touch our shoulder during Confirmation, take vows in matrimony … and then don’t have faith in God any longer?

A wooden statue of a pregnant woman is pictured in the Church of St. Mary in Traspontina as part of exhibits on the Amazon region during the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon in Rome Oct. 18, 2019. Several copies of the statue were stolen from the church and thrown into the Tiber River Oct. 21. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Thieves steal statues used at synod prayer, throw them in the river

Cindy Wooden
October 21, 2019
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Two men entered a Catholic Church near the Vatican early Oct. 21 and stole copies of a statue of a pregnant woman that had been a centerpiece of several prayer services connected to the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.

Participants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon celebrate Mass in the Catacombs of Domitilla in Rome Oct. 20, 2019. Several dozen synod participants at the Mass signed a pact promising to care for people and the earth and to give up a "colonist mentality and posture." (CNS photo/courtesy Father Julio Caldeira-REPAM)

At catacombs, synod members pledge simplicity, closeness to the poor

Cindy Wooden
October 21, 2019
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More than a half century after a group of bishops at the Second Vatican Council made a solemn pledge to live a simple lifestyle close to their people, a group of participants from the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon signed a new pact in the Catacombs of Domitilla.

U.S. Attorney General William Barr smiles before speaking in the McCartan Courtroom Oct. 11, 2019, at the University of Notre Dame's Law School in Indiana. Religion "helps promote moral discipline within society," but in the U.S. secularists are assaulting religion and its values, said Barr. CNS photo/Matt Cashore, University of Notre Dame)

Barr sees ‘growing refusal’ to accommodate free exercise of religion

Julie Asher
October 21, 2019
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Religion “helps promote moral discipline within society” and “helps teach, train and habituate people to want what is good,” U.S. Attorney General William Barr told an audience at the University of Notre Dame Law School.

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