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January 10, 2011

The Maryland Catholic Conference is gearing up once again to make a major push for passage of a business tax credit known as BOAST (Building Opportunities for All Students and Teachers). Long a top priority of the legislative lobbying arm of the state’s Catholic bishops, BOAST would give businesses a 75 percent state income-tax credit […]

Archbishop O’Brien will participate in Irish visitation

January 9, 2011

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is heading to Rome and Ireland early this year as part of an Apostolic Visitation of Irish seminaries called by Pope Benedict XVI in his ?March 19, 2010 pastoral letter to the people of Ireland. Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York is leading the visitation of […]

Statement of Death of Defrocked Priest Laurence Brett

Sean Caine

January 7, 2011

Press Release

Through media reports the Archdiocese of Baltimore learned today of the apparent death of Laurence Brett, a former priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, who was defrocked after several individuals reported they were sexually abused by Brett when they were children in the early 1970s. Today, the prayers of the Archdiocese are with the […]

Archdiocese Announces School Board Members, First Meeting Monday January 10

Sean Caine

January 7, 2011

Press Release

The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced the formation of a new archdiocesan school board to oversee implementation of the Blue Ribbon Committee on Catholic Schools’ Strategic Plan released in June 2010. The Archdiocesan Catholic School Board will hold its first meeting on Monday, January 10, at 2 p.m. at St. Mary’s Seminary in Roland Park. Archbishop […]

Romanian witches fight new taxes

January 7, 2011

Don’t mess with witches. They’re fighting back against new taxes in Romania: Everyone curses the taxman, but Romanian witches, angry about having to pay up for the first time, hurled poisonous mandrake into the Danube River on Thursday to cast spells on the president and government. In the past, the less mainstream professions of witch, astrologer […]

The Doable Dreams

Archdiocese Staff

January 6, 2011

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review Happy New Year, dear readers! As we begin 2011, I thought it useful to use this year’s inaugural column to look back at the challenges we faced together in 2010 and to look ahead to those we will face in 2011. Last year, it was necessary for me and my brother bishops […]

Holy Communion host dispenser?

January 6, 2011

Ken Maldonado for The Wall Street Journal I’m all for caution, but this just makes me cringe. At St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Clark, N.J., parishioners no longer handle the communion wafers that they once transferred from one bowl to another at the start of Mass. Instead, parishioners use a very untraditional looking […]

Archibishop’s Annual Appeal Sets Record in 2010 Giving to the Appeal Increased by 67% Since 2006

Sean Caine

Press Release

Bucking a national trend in philanthropy, the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal received a record amount of donations in 2010. The Archdiocese of Baltimore is reporting that over 40,000 people donated more than $8.7 million to the campaign, an increase of more than 67 percent since 2006. The Archbishop’s Appeal, which began in 1992, is held each […]

Sydney cardinal: Priests have right to discuss politics when preaching

PERTH, Australia – Cardinal George Pell of Sydney has defended the right of priests to speak against the legalization of same-sex marriage from the pulpit.

Baltimore celebrates a saint

Catholic Review photo/George P. Matysek Jr. Baltimoreans didn’t let today’s feast of St. John Neumann go by without a special celebration inside the downtown church he once served as pastor. Following the 12:10 p.m. Mass at the Shrine of St. Alphonsus, dozens of worshippers formed a solemn line Jan. 5 to venerate a relic of […]

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