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More than 770 participants endured steady rain in support of the fifth annual Little Sisters of the Poor 5K Run and 1 Mile Walk at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland Sept. 8. The event benefited St. Martin's Home in Catonsville. St. Ignatius Church in Hickory won the Parish Pride Award and Mount de Sales Academy received the Flying Nun Award for most registrants. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Names and Numbers: Capital Campaigns, jubilarians, 9/11 observance make news

Catholic Review Staff
September 27, 2018
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This latest installment of Names and Numbers includes women’s religious orders that contributed greatly to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, highlights school fundraising initiatives, as well as an observance of 9/11 with particular resonance in Harford County.

Catholics participate in a listening session with Archbishop William E. Lori Sept. 17 at St. Lawrence Martyr in Hanover. (Courtesy Archdiocese of Baltimore)

What I heard this summer

Archbishop William E. Lori
September 27, 2018
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I will report back to you what I’ve heard and how these heartfelt comments, no matter how hard they are to hear at times, will help to shape necessary reforms in our local Church and how they will inform my own contributions to the urgent conversations that are happening at higher levels of our Church. 

Cardinal Reinhard Marx of Munich reacts Sept. 25 during a presentation of a study on sexual abuse in the German church. The study, leaked earlier, was officially presented during the German bishops' conference meeting in Fulda, Germany. (CNS photo/Armando Babani, EPA)

German bishops apologize formally, release sex abuse data

Zita Ballinger
September 27, 2018
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The head of the German bishops conference formally apologized for sexual abuse in the church, saying it “has been denied, turned away from and covered up for far too long.”

Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, delivers his homily Sept. 23 during the closing Mass of the Fifth National Encuentro, or V Encuentro, in Grapevine, Texas. The Sept. 20-23 gathering brought together more than 3,200 Hispanic Catholic leaders and about 125 bishops from across the country. (CNS photo/Tyler Orsburn)

Today is ‘hour of the laity,’ Archbishop Gomez tells Encuentro delegates

Norma Montenegro Flynn
September 25, 2018
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Hispanic Catholic leaders are living an important moment in the history of the Catholic church in the U.S. and are called to rise and continue the work of building the church, Los Angeles Archbishop Jose H. Gomez said Sept. 23.

Pope Francis walks with Lutheran Archbishop Urmas Viila of Tallinn, left, as he arrives for an ecumenical encounter with young people at the Kaarli Lutheran Church in Tallinn, Estonia, Sept. 25. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Scandals create outrage, but there is time for conversion, pope says

Cindy Wooden
September 25, 2018
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In what is probably the least religious country in Europe, Pope Francis said he is surprised by how many people hold firm to their faith despite all the sexual abuse and financial scandals in the Catholic Church.

In a Sept. 20 letter, Jesuit Father James Van Dyke, president of of Georgetown Preparatory School in Bethesda, Md., noted that it is a "challenging time" for the school, in the wake of allegations of sexual misconduct raised against Judge Brett Kavanaugh, a 1983 graduate of the school. Father Van Dyke is pictured in 2014 as then-principal of Cristo Rey Atlanta Jesuit High School. (CNS photo/Michael Alexander, Georgia Bulletin)

Head of Georgetown Prep urges renewed commitment to being ‘men for others’

Kelly Sankowski
September 25, 2018
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In a letter to the school community, the president of an all-boys Jesuit high school in suburban Washington emphasized the schools’ mission to form “men for others” and reflected on the need to evaluate the school’s culture in light of that value.

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