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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.

Local Red Mass Oct. 20 in Annapolis

Catholic Review
October 7, 2009

To mark the traditional opening of the judicial year, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate a “Red Mass” at St. Mary in Annapolis Oct. 20. The 6 p.m. liturgy will be followed by a reception and banquet at the Marriott Annapolis Waterfront and is expected to attract judges, lawyers, legislators, executives and other legal professionals from throughout the state.

Homily to Deacon Convocation

Archdiocese Staff
October 4, 2009

A special and gifted opportunity is mine this morning to offer this Mass with the deacons of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and their spouses in the context of today’s Gospel. And on several levels. Most of you are married and we welcome the wives who are present. We thank them for their invaluable partnership that […]

A Vibrant Local Church

Archdiocese Staff
October 1, 2009

The Catholic Review Though I have previously been reluctant to use this column as a sort of “calendar review”—a rundown of my comings and goings—I thought such an exercise this week might prove beneficial, given the significance, if not the volume, of the events which occurred in the Archdiocese last week. Though I detail only […]

CNS needs to take stand

Catholic Review
September 29, 2009

Stephen Kent’s column “Looking to a higher law” (CR, Aug. 20) demonstrates again that the Catholic News Service has made no serious commitment to oppose abortion. To demonstrate standing up against abortion in the political arena is futile, the author’s hypothetical starts with the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade. Afterwards inferior courts would overturn anti-abortion legislation and Supreme Court precedent, if one follows the logic of Kent. He should have been calling for American members of the church to act like Americans and defend the 14th amendment to the Constitution and to fight for their right to representative government against a judicial oligarchy.

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