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DUBLIN – Father Damien McGroarty, 29, is one of the youngest diocesan priests in Ireland. Ordained just over a year ago, he should still be at the honeymoon stage of his vocation.

The Mary Catherine Bunting Center, Mercy Medical Center’s new hospital in Baltimore, which opened in December 2010, won a number of awards for the new “Main Lobby” features at the 73rd Annual Craftsmanship Awards of the Building Congress and Exchange.

Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, speaks in support of traditional marriage during a Nov. 30 press conference at First Apostolic Faith Church International in Baltimore. (CR Staff/George P. Matysek Jr.) There’s no doubt that same-sex marriage is going to be the hot-button issue in Annapolis next year. Gov. Martin J. […]

Mary Ellen Russell, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, speaks in support of traditional marriage during a Nov. 30 press conference at First Apostolic Faith Church International in Baltimore. (CR Staff/George P. Matysek Jr.) There’s no doubt that same-sex marriage is going to be the hot-button issue in Annapolis next year. Gov. Martin J. […]

NEW YORK – Auxiliary Bishop Patrick J. Sheridan, a retired vicar general and one of the best-known and most popular priests in the New York Archdiocese, died Dec. 2. He was 89.

The Maryland Catholic Conference is heartened by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s publication of proposed tighter regulations on abortion clinics.

PORTLAND, Ore. – A federal judge in Portland has declined to order face-to-face questioning of Vatican officials in a lawsuit claiming that the Vatican was the employer of an abusive priest in the 1960s.