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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.

Bishop Mark E. Brennan, fourth from left, joins other faith and government leaders at a Nov. 2 interfaith prayer service at the Weinberg Park Heights Jewish Community Center in Baltimore. (Kevin J. Parks/CR Staff)

Baltimore’s religious and civic leaders mourn 11 slain in Pittsburgh

George P. Matysek Jr.
November 2, 2018
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On All Souls Day, a day when Catholics and those of other Christian denominations pray for the dead, religious and civic leaders from around Baltimore gathered at the Weinberg Park Heights Jewish Community Center in Baltimore Nov. 2 to remember the 11 people slain at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh nearly one week earlier.

People in Warsaw, Poland, celebrate Sept. 29, ahead of the Nov. 11 centenary of Polish independence. Poland's bishops marked the centenary by telling Catholics that independence could be lost again if Poles abandon their faith. (CNS photo/Marcin Obara, EPA)

Keep faith to keep Poland independent, Catholic bishops say at centenary

Jonathan Luxmoore
November 2, 2018
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Poland’s bishops marked their country’s centenary of independence by warning freedom could be lost again if Poles abandon their Catholic faith.

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