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The heart St. John Vianney will be available for public veneration Nov. 10-11 at St. Mary’s Historic Seminary Chapel on Paca Street in Baltimore as part of a national relic tour sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. (Courtesy Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

St. John Vianney’s heart will be available for veneration in Baltimore

George P. Matysek Jr.
November 7, 2018
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The incorrupt heart of one of the Catholic Church’s most beloved saints will be available for public veneration Nov. 10-11 at St. Mary’s Historic Seminary Chapel on Paca Street in Baltimore as part of a national relic tour sponsored by the Knights of Columbus.

A priest demonstrates the granting of absolution that occurs during the sacrament of reconciliation. The priest, acting in the person of Christ, can absolve a person of his or her sins with their contrition, confession and penance. (CNS photo/Nancy Phelan Wiechec)

Is annual confession mandated?/Can’t understand priest

Father Kenneth Doyle
November 6, 2018
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Father Doyle fields questions about whether annual confession is mandated and not being able to understand a priest.

The John Carroll School, Bel Air, freshman Caleb Barger and Ella Andrychowski place flowers at the tomb of Archbishop John Carroll during a Nov. 2 freshman class visit to the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

John Carroll students visit tomb of namesake

Emily Rosenthal Alster
November 6, 2018
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The 163 students were members of the first freshman class to make the trip to the basilica to learn about the history of the archdiocese and to visit the tomb of Archbishop John Carroll, the first bishop of Baltimore and of the United States.

Boston Cardinal Sean P. O'Malley processes out as clergymen assist then-retired Washington Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick following the 2017 installation Mass for Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark, N.J. In back is Cardinal Roger M. Mahony, retired archbishop of Los Angeles. (CNS photo/Bob Roller)

Newspapers examine U.S. bishops’ responses to abuse allegations

Carol Zimmermann
November 6, 2018
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The Boston Globe and the Philadelphia Inquirer newspapers teamed up for an article published in both daily papers Nov. 4 that examined ways it said the U.S. bishops have failed to police themselves even since their 2002 gathering in Dallas about clergy sex abuse when they “promised that the church’s days of concealment and inaction were over.”

An icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help sits high above in a side chapel at Sacred Heart of Jesus–Sagrado Corazón De Jesús Church in Highlandtown. A Nov. 3 Mass celebrated the 150th anniversary of its arrival in North America. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore parish celebrates 150th anniversary of precious icon’s arrival

George P. Matysek Jr.
November 5, 2018
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“This icon of Our Mother of Perpetual Help came to accompany her sons and daughters – all of us migrants here, all of us new to this country,” the superior general said.

Archbishop Lori’s Homily: Feast of St. Martin de Porres; Knights of Columbus Mid-Year Meeting

Archbishop William E. Lori
November 3, 2018
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While he lived on this earth, [St. Martin de Porres] followed the admonition of Jesus in today’s Gospel. In the banquet of life he took the lowest seat at the table. Overjoyed to be at the banquet, he chose to sit with the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable. And, at that end of the table, he shared with his neighbors whatever he had.

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