Archbishop William E. Lori will spend part of his first day as Archbishop of Baltimore serving meals to clients of Our Daily Bread and touring the Esperanza Center, which provides immigration and legal services to clients in the Fells Point area of Baltimore. Archbishop Lori will be installed as head of the nation’s oldest Catholic...Read More

Archbishop-designate William E. Lori, former Bishop of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, will be installed 16th Archbishop of Baltimore during a Mass at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in North Baltimore Wednesday, May 16 at 2 p.m. He succeeds Edwin Cardinal O’Brien, who served as Archbishop of the Nation’s oldest diocese from October 2007...Read More

On April 15th at 2 p.m., St. Peter’s Catholic Church in Libertytown will commemorate the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic at the first American monument dedicated to those who perished the night of April 15, 1912. The monument, a 12-foot high cross resting on a heavy base of brown stone includes a...Read More

On Friday, April 6, nine Major League Baseball teams, including the Baltimore Orioles, will play season-opening baseball games. On the same day, countless Christians and Jews will mark solemn and holy religious observances, Good Friday and the start of Passover. The decision to schedule season-opening games on Good Friday is just the latest example of...Read More

Number of newly Baptized Catholics up 10 Percent Over 700 new Catholics will enter the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of Baltimore at Saturday’s Easter Vigil. Seven hundred and two people will enter into full communion with the Catholic Church at the solemn Easter Vigil Mass on Saturday, April 7. A total of 252 elect...Read More

Approximately 1,000 Catholic young people will join Cardinal Edwin O’Brien and Auxiliary Bishops Mitchell T. Rozanski and Denis J. Madden in an annual pilgrimage through Baltimore on Saturday, March 31st to mark the start of Holy Week. The idea for a youth pilgrimage originated from World Youth Day in Denver in 1993, which also featured...Read More

Cathedral of Mary Our Queen 5200 N. Charles Street, Baltimore April 1: Palm Sunday, 8 a.m., 9:15 a.m., 11 a.m.*, 1 p.m. April 5: Holy Thursday, Mass of the Lord’s Supper, 7:30 p.m.* April 6: Good Friday, the Passion of the Lord, 3 p.m.* April 7: Holy Saturday, Easter Vigil, 8 p.m.* April 8: Easter...Read More

“I was disappointed to learn of the decision to sell St. Joseph Medical Center to a non-Catholic ownership group given the high priority we place on maintaining the Catholic identity of our many institutions in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. “The hospital and its staff of outstanding doctors, nurses, physicians and other healthcare workers, have a...Read More