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May 26, 2009

WASHINGTON – The National Institutes of Health’s draft guidelines for embryonic stem-cell research support “a course of action that is both morally objectionable and, increasingly, scientifically obsolete,” the general secretary of the U.S. bishops’ conference said in comments to NIH.

Former MCC head to be honored

May 22, 2009

Richard J. Dowling, the former executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference, will receive the Della Strada Award from the Ignatian Volunteer Corps June 11.

St. Jane Frances School students depart the starting line

May 22, 2009

St. Jane Frances School, Pasadena, students depart the starting line during the Race for Education May 20. Students are sponsored for each lap and the money raised will go to support and enhance the school’s curriculum.

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Archdiocese Staff

May 21, 2009

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review For the third time this school year we have had the frustrating and sad task of announcing that the doors of a Catholic school will not reopen next fall. St. Mary of the Assumption School in Govans is the latest such casualty and joins Catholic Community School (Federal Hill) and St. Michael […]

St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute celebrates graduates

May 21, 2009

St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Roland Park celebrated the graduation of 19 students from its Ecumenical Institute of Theology May 14, including seven Catholic students from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. In addition, 22 seminarians received degrees from the School of Theology. Among them was Rev. Mr. Marc Lanoue, a priesthood candidate for the Archdiocese of Baltimore who will be ordained by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien June 13.

Archbishop O’Brien reads to Immaculate Conception School students

May 21, 2009

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien reads to Immaculate Conception School, Towson, students during his visit May 20. The archbishop read to kindergartens from a book about Mary, mother of Jesus. The visit coincides with the church’s celebration of Mary in the month of May.

Archbishop to Read to Kindergarten Students at Catholic School in Towson

Sean Caine

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will read to approximately 60 kindergarten students at Immaculate Conception School in Towson on Wednesday, May 20 at 9:30 a.m. The Archbishop will read from a book about Mary, Mother of Jesus. His visit to the school named in honor of the Blessed Mother, coincides with the Church’s celebration of Mary […]

Mary Ellen Heibel, a parishioner of St. Mary in Annapolis, Md., sits next to a statue of Blessed Francis X. Seelos at her parish. Heibel believes her cancer was cured through Blessed Seelos’ intercession. (George P. Matysek Jr., Catholic Review)

Archdiocese investigates possible Seelos miracle

George P. Matysek Jr.

Local News, News

Go home and prepare to die. That’s what Mary Ellen Heibel’s doctors at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington told her May 11, 2004, after they discovered that the cancer that had attacked Heibel’s esophagus in 2003 and then a lymph node later that year had spread throughout her body.

Education committee opens site for public comments

The blue-ribbon committee charged with providing a long-term strategic plan for the health of Catholic schools is soliciting online comments from the public.

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