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

Four Priests and 40 Members of Historic Anglican Parish will Enter Catholic Church Sunday through New Anglican Ordinariate for the United States Cardinal-designate Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced today that Mount Calvary Church, a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland and located in Baltimore, will be received into...Read More

Pope Benedict XVI today named Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, 72, to the College of Cardinals. As Cardinal, Cardinal-designate O’Brien will serve as an advisor to the Pope and be eligible to vote in a Papal election until his 80th birthday. A consistory to formally elevate the new Cardinals will be held at the Vatican on...Read More

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced today that the Archdiocese has approved leases for five former Catholic school buildings for use as educational facilities in the Baltimore area. Earlier this year, the Archdiocese announced a new policy for processing requests to sell or lease former Catholic school buildings. The...Read More

In his almost 50 years as priest and bishop Cardinal John Patrick Foley was totally and singularly dedicated to Christ and His Church. As editor of Philadelphia’s Catholic Standard and Times and later as President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications in the Vatican, the Cardinal’s professionalism and integrity was universally respected among his...Read More

The Archdiocese of Baltimore’s annual Mass for Our Lady of Guadalupe will take place Sunday, December 11, 2011 at 12:30 p.m. at Sacred Heart of Jesus/Sagrado Corazon de Jesus Parish in Baltimore’s Highlandtown neighborhood. Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will concelebrate the Mass with Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski, Auxiliary Bishop of Baltimore and Vicar for Hispanics,...Read More

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Richmond on Tuesday, December 6, in the appeal of a lower court’s ruling in the case of Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien and the Greater Baltimore Center for Pregnancy Concerns, Inc. (GBCP) v. Baltimore City. The lawsuit stems...Read More

All Saints Sisters of the Poor Believed to be First U.S. Episcopal Order Created into Catholic Religious Community Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Apostolic Administrator of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, will receive the All Saints Sisters of the Poor, a religious community of nine women once belonging to the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland, into the newly-erected...Read More