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March 1, 2010

Local News, News

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is set to announce the consolidation of an unspecified number of schools March 4.

Mount St. Joseph top seed in Baltimore Catholic League tournament

February 26, 2010

Mount St. Joseph, behind two-time Player of the Year Eric Atkins, earned the top seed and a first-round bye in the 39th annual Baltimore Catholic League tournament. The boys’ basketball showcase, at Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena, begins Feb. 27 and concludes March 1.

Wasted Prayer

Archdiocese Staff

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review I must not have been more than six or seven. My brothers and I would dutifully accompany my mother many a Monday night for the novena of the Miraculous Medal, a strong devotion of the day evidenced by a large parish church half-filled. The priest would lead the novena from the pulpit. […]

Statement of the Bishops of Maryland on the Attorney General’s Opinion on Recognition of Out-of-State Same-Sex “Marriages”

Sean Caine

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, joined Maryland-serving bishops, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington in releasing the following statement. We take strong exception to Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s opinion that the state may recognize same-sex “marriages” performed in other jurisdictions. We trust our legislature and […]

Father Hilgartner to be among leaders of workshops on new missal

Local News, News

WASHINGTON – Registration is now open for a series of workshops to help prepare priests and diocesan leaders for implementation of the revised Roman Missal.

Stephania and Rich De Mayo cradle their twin daughters

Couple celebrates birth of twin girls doctors had advised they abort

WAYNE, N.J. – Perhaps the birth of the De Mayo identical twins Dec. 29 already might hint at the girls’ personalities, now beginning to form: Natalia, the smaller of the two, announced her arrival into the world by screaming. Melania, the larger of the two, came out of the womb sleeping.

St. Alphonsus to remember heroic son of parish

February 23, 2010

The Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore will host a 3 p.m. memorial service and reception Feb. 28 for Father Casimir Pugevicius, a son of the parish and a noted defender of human rights and freedom in Lithuania.

Church statistics show increase in Catholics, priests, seminarians

February 22, 2010

VATICAN CITY – The latest Vatican statistics show a slight increase in Catholics as a percentage of the world’s population, and a slow but steady rise in the number of priests and seminarians worldwide.

Over 800 Prepare to Enter the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore at Easter

Sean Caine

February 20, 2010

Press Release

Nearly 840 people will enter the Catholic Church this Easter in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. A total of 839 catechumens (the unbaptized) and candidates (already Baptized in another Christian Church) will participate in the Rite of Election and Call to Continuing Conversion Sunday, February 21 at the following three locations throughout the Archdiocese: Cathedral of […]

Mosul archbishop says Christians live in panic, targeted in killings

February 19, 2010

LONDON – The killings of four Iraqi Christians in as many days could prompt a wave of refugees fleeing northern Iraq, where Christians live in constant state of panic, said a Catholic archbishop.

Catholic woman spearheads campaign to help homeless during Olympics

February 19, 2010

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – When most people think of the Olympic visitors flocking to this city, they imagine athletes and spectators from around the world. But that’s not what sprang to mind for Carolyn Wharton of Star of the Sea Parish in White Rock, nearly 30 miles outside Vancouver.

Archbishop O’Brien will celebrate Ash Wednesday Masses

February 15, 2010