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(CR photo illustration/April Hornbeck) When terrorists attacked the United States 10 years ago this September, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was in Washington with 60 military chaplains. The archbishop, then the head of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services, witnessed calls pour in from military commanders looking for their chaplains to minister to those in need. […]

The Baltimore Archdiocesan Holy Name Union celebrated its 58th annual baseball night with the Baltimore Orioles Aug. 5 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. Nearly 200 Holy Name members and their families were in attendance.

Sacred Heart in Glyndon will host a Healing Mass on the Feast of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary Sept. 8 at 6:45 p.m. Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament and anointings will be offered and participants will also pray a novena to our Mother of Perpetual Help, the rosary and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy.

Archbishop Jose H. Gomez (CR, Aug. 18 and 25) thinks this country is one of multiple cultures. Maybe we are, but we are most definitely a melting pot. A society where all our cultures assimilate into one (that of the United States of America), speaking one language (that of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution), under one flag. Multiculturalism ensures those barriers that separate us stay erect, not like a melting pot, but like an egg carton.

A new school-voucher program in Indiana is prompting a spike in enrollment among Catholic schools that were once on the verge of closing. Bloomberg Businessweek has the scoop: Under a law signed in May by Gov. Mitch Daniels, more than 3,200 Indiana students are receiving vouchers to attend private schools. That number is expected to […]

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, a former U.S. Army chaplain and former head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, certainly can come across as a no-nonsense, “get to the point,” efficient sort of gentleman. But as my coworker George Matysek pointed out in a recent blog, the priest of 46 years also has a humorous […]