Two Baltimore nuns who have been peace activists for decades expressed shock that Maryland State Police listed them as suspected terrorists in a federal database.
Two Baltimore nuns who have been peace activists for decades expressed shock that Maryland State Police listed them as suspected terrorists in a federal database.
EMMITSBURG – Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien helped close a yearlong celebration of Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and University’s bicentennial by re-consecrating the Emmitsburg institution to the Blessed Virgin Mary during an Oct. 10 Mass.
Two Baltimore nuns who have been peace activists for decades expressed shock that Maryland State Police listed them as suspected terrorists in a federal database.
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, of Baltimore, will dedicate the Pope John Paul II Prayer Garden in honor of the Pope’s 1995 visit to Baltimore, on Thursday, October 23 at 10 a.m. The garden, located at the corner of Charles and Franklin Streets in Baltimore, was constructed in six months and celebrates Baltimore and Maryland’s rich […]
WASHINGTON – Public service announcements on poverty and on marriage developed by the U.S. bishops rank high in the number of times the spots have aired.
The Catholic Review (Sept. 11) showed Father Syracuse holding a compact fluorescent light bulb. That may have been the single best photo you’ve run all year to help struggling parishes meet their needs and serve their people. As your editorial (Sept. 25) said, “we can’t afford it” is heard much too often. Despite the somewhat flamboyant way they put it, a promotion (www.energystar.gov/changetheworld) from the Environmental Protection Agency is genuine and valid. Their calculations are correct and their numbers are accurate. There is a huge amount of money to be saved, via simple energy-conservation measures. Churches in particular should be attentive, since donations are down in these uncertain economic times. It would be a shame if people forget about all the other things they mention, besides light bulbs. I encourage you to continue to promote energy conservation.
Father Rickle’s column on Hispanics (CR, Sept. 25) failed to note some important points.
“Connect to Catholics” (CR, Sept. 25) was informative and historically interesting. Having taught in the archdiocese for eighteen years (4 at St. Stephen, Bradshaw and 14 at The Catholic High School of Baltimore), I would like to draw attention to another person who made a difference here – Mother Mary Generosa McCafferty, provincial of The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia.
The Catholic Review These are uncertain times. Banks are failing, Wall Street is reeling, and the cost of just about everything seems to be through the roof. Talk of bailouts and mergers, record declines and a looming recession—not to mention the fast-approaching presidential election– has much of the nation in a frenzy of uncertainty and […]
Throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore, pets received special blessings the weekend of Oct. 4-5 in commemoration of the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi. Some parishes holding pet blessings were St. Charles Borromeo in Pikesville, St. Casimir in Canton and Ss. Philip and James, Charles Village.
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visited the Archdiocese of Louisville, Ky., one of Baltimore’s daughter dioceses, Sept. 28 to celebrate its 200th anniversary with a special outdoor Mass at the Basilica of St. Joseph Proto-Cathedral.
LONDON – English officials exhuming the body of Cardinal John Henry Newman in preparation for his likely beatification discovered that his body had disintegrated completely.