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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.

Protect the unborn

When will Catholics be truthful to themselves? Re the letter “Why did Bush have our blessing?” (CR, May 14), let us be clear about the Notre Dame scandal. It is not the invitation of President Obama to speak at Notre Dame that is the problem; it is the conferring of an honorary degree that has people outraged. Capital punishment is not (by definition of the Catechism of the Catholic Church) intrinsically evil. Abortion, embryonic stem-cell research and born-alive babies left to die after an attempted abortion are intrinsically evil. That is the difference. Common sense should prevail here. Abortion is the right to choose murder. It is not really any more complicated than that. Capital punishment is killing, not murder – there is a difference. Since 1973, fewer than 1,100 people have been executed in the U.S. under capital punishment. More than 50 million babies have been murdered in their mothers’ wombs in the past 26 years. If these babies are not protected, who among us is protected?

Opening Session in Cause for Sainthood of Blessed Francis Seelos to Take Place in Baltimore

Sean Caine

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, will preside over the opening session in the Diocesan Inquiry into an alleged healing through the intercession of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, C.Ss. R. during the 12:10 Mass at the Baltimore Basilica on Tuesday, May 19. If the healing is deemed miraculous by the Vatican’s Congregation of the […]

Thirteen to Be Ordained Deacons May 23

Sean Caine

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will ordain 12 permanent deacons and one transitional deacon during a Mass on May 23 at 10 a.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen. The number marks the second largest class of new deacons to be ordained in the past 10 years. Transitional deacons go on to become priests, while […]

Toward a safe run

Monsignor Robert J. Jaskot, director of the Arc

Prayers offered for assaulted priest and alleged assailant