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Megan Blackburn, physical education teacher at St. Joan of Arc School in Aberdeen, welcomes students back to school Sept. 4. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

First day for three Catholic schools includes Archbishop Lori, other visitors

Emily Rosenthal Alster
September 4, 2018
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On the first day of school Sept. 4, Archbishop William E. Lori – accompanied by Jim Sellinger, chancellor of education, and Donna Hargens, superintendent – visited schools in Harford and Baltimore counties.

An artist’s rendering shows what a new Catholic school in development for West Baltimore might look like. (Courtesy Rubeling & Associates)

New Baltimore Catholic school to be named in honor of Mother Lange

Catholic Review Staff
September 4, 2018
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The proposed new Catholic school in Baltimore will honor the name of Mother Mary Elizabeth Lange, the foundress of the Oblate Sisters of Providence and the first Catholic school in the United States for black children.

Then eighth-graders at Holy Angels Catholic School, Jalynn Manigo, Sydnei Chase, Kelia Stanley and Mika Baldwin visit with Eleanor Bronis, 96 (left) and Adele Karl, 94 (right) at the Jenkins Senior Living campus last June. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Spirit of service begins early at Holy Angels

Paul McMullen
September 4, 2018
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“Created for Good Works” is the theme for 2018-19, the year of service in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. That is an ethos that students at Catholic schools embrace long before they enter high school.

Pope Francis in 2015 waves alongside Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, then the apostolic nuncio to the United States, right, outside St. Patrick in the City Church in Washington. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Vigano, spokesmen dispute facts of contested pope meeting in Washington

Cindy Wooden
September 4, 2018
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Days after he called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly ignoring sanctions placed on then-Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano provided his version of a meeting that, in the minds of many, changed the overall narrative of Pope Francis’ visit to the United States in 2015.

Workers set a girder in place while rebuilding a bridge July 28 in Detroit. Labor Day, honoring U.S. workers, is observed Sept. 3 this year. (CNS photo/Jim West)

Bishop echoes pope: The poor’s plight is ‘the Gospel, pure and simple’

Mark Pattison
September 2, 2018
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In the bishops’ annual Labor Day statement, Bishop Frank J. Dewane of Venice, Florida, said the recent economic news may not “give an entirely accurate account of the daily lives and struggles of working people, those who are still without work, or the underemployed struggling with low wages.”

Student Isaiah Black of Cleveland prepares a traditional French sauce tableside at Edwins Leadership and Restaurant Institute Aug. 14. The restaurant's six-month program prepares students recently released from prison for culinary careers. (CNS photo/Dennis Sadowski)

Restaurant’s culinary program helps former inmates achieve success

Dennis Sadowski
September 1, 2018
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Edwins — short for education wins — is a venture of Brandon Chrostowski, 38, a no-nonsense, hard-driving entrepreneur who saw a need to help people released from prison. He envisions eventually that Edwins will host the country’s best culinary school and provide well-trained chefs and servers to the city’s burgeoning local food scene.

Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011, file photo. The former nuncio has accused church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse by Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Former nuncio now says sanctions against McCarrick were ‘private’

Cindy Wooden
September 1, 2018
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Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the former nuncio to the United States who called on Pope Francis to resign for allegedly lifting sanctions placed on Archbishop Theodore E. McCarrick, now says those “sanctions” were “private” and neither he nor now-retired Pope Benedict XVI ever was able to enforce them.

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