WASHINGTON – In one of two cases that seek to draw the Holy See into U.S. courts over liability for sexual abuse by priests, the Obama administration’s solicitor general said lower courts were wrong to conclude both that an abuser was acting within “the scope of his employment” and also that as his “employer,” the...Read More
Pope Benedict XVI named the former pastor of a Western Maryland parish the auxiliary bishop of the U.S. Archdiocese for the Military Services May 22.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The successful development of a synthetic cell can have many practical applications, but the technology must be regulated, said the Vatican newspaper, L’Osservatore Romano.Read More
TURIN, Italy – A group from the Archdiocese of Baltimore led by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien joined a throng of pilgrims from around the world to see the Shroud of Turin during its 2010 exhibition.Read More
The Archdiocesan Immigration Coalition has been in existence for about two years. We meet monthly at St. Gabriel Church in Woodlawn. We are about 20 people from across the archdiocese, plus representatives from CASA de Maryland and the Episcopal Church.We are writing to thank Archbishop O’Brien for his column (CR, May 6), “Embrace Less Hard-hearted...Read More
WASHINGTON – A Mass for mariners and people of the sea celebrated in Washington May 22 took on special significance in light of the massive oil spill endangering people’s livelihoods and sea life in the Gulf of Mexico.Read More
At the conclusion of the current school year, 13 Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore will close. The Catholic Review pays homage to those schools and their legacies, with capsules of six elementary schools this week, six more in the June 3 issue, and an article on The Cardinal Gibbons School in the June...Read More
Karen Hanrahan has been named the new president of Seton Keough High School in Baltimore. Hanrahan formerly worked in institutional advancement and development at St. Mary Academy-Bay View, a pre-K through grade 12 academy for young women in Rhode Island. She has a bachelor’s degree from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and a master of...Read More
VATICAN CITY – With the Shroud of Turin now carefully put away, church officials said that more than 2 million pilgrims had come to venerate the linen cloth in the six weeks it was on display.Read More
VATICAN CITY – The gift of the Holy Spirit creates the unity and universality of the Catholic Church, overcoming barriers of nationality and language and opening people’s hearts to work with and serve one another, Pope Benedict XVI said.Read More
When an eighth-grader at Most Precious Blood named Michael Martin took his high school entrance examinations in the mid-1970s, his father made a simple command.Read More