Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of Baltimore, announced today that the initiative to promote the sacrament of Reconciliation or Penance called, “The Light is on for You,” will return for a fourth consecutive year in 2012. The campaign, first initiated in the Archdiocese of Washington several years ago, uses a multi-media marketing campaign to...Read More

Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien will visit several area Catholic schools during the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s celebration of Catholic Schools Week, January 29 – February 4. Among his stops, the Cardinal-designate will visit St. Casimir Catholic School, St. Michael the Archangel, and Archbishop Curley High School on Tuesday, January 31. WHEN: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 WHERE:...Read More

St. John Regional Catholic School in Frederick kicks off Catholic Schools Week by showing off their new 1:1 computing program which provides every eighth grade student in the school with an iPad. The iPads will be used by teachers for daily lesson instruction and to take “virtual field trips” to enhance classroom instruction. The iPads...Read More

Health and Human Services Edict Requires Virtually All Health Plans Include Sterilization, Abortifacients and Contraception From Rome earlier today, Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, condemned the Obama administration’s decision to leave unchanged a Health and Human Services mandate that virtually all health plans provide for sterilization, abortifacients and contraception....Read More