St. Philip Neri School, a Catholic grade school in Linthicum, Anne Arundel County, won the Maryland Gazette Readers Choice 2010 Award for Best Private School. Readers were asked to cast their vote for the “best of the best” on the newspaper’s website. “The faculty and staff of St. Phillip Neri School are elated and very...Read More
Ms. LaUanah King-Cassell, principal of Ss. James & John School in East Baltimore for the past 27 years, has received the Bank of America Local Hero Award and a $5,000 grant, which she designated to the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s inner city scholarship program, Partners in Excellence. Bank of America’s Neighborhood Excellence Local Heroes program seeks...Read More
Dr. Barbara Edmondson, Interim Superintendent of Schools for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, joined Msgr. Richard Cramblitt, as well as students, faculty, staff and families of St. John the Evangelist School in Hydes for the dedication of the new Wil Brady Technology Center today at the school. Wilson (“Wil”), a former student at the K-8 Catholic...Read More
Two pastors of city parishes and a parishioner of Baltimore’s Cathedral of Mary Our Queen purchased the winning tickets in the Archdiocese’s first “tuition raffle.” All three have chosen to donate their “winnings” to students attending at St. Thomas Aquinas School in Hampden and Archbishop Borders Elementary School in Highlandtown. The students will receive tuition...Read More
“Big Time Rush,” the pop/rock music group created by Nickelodeon and stars of the television series of the same name, will perform a concert for students of St. Margaret School in Bel Air today at 1 p.m. as part of a promotion sponsored by Walgreens and CBS Radio. Students at the Bel Air Catholic school...Read More
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, will join executives of Mercy Medical Center and a New Jersey-based blood bank, on Monday, October 11 at 10 a.m. at Mercy Medical Center (Weinberg Center, 2nd Floor, Truman Semans Conference Room) to announce Maryland’s first public umbilical cord blood banking program. Umbilical cord blood contains adult stem...Read More
“Big Time Rush,” the pop/rock music group created by Nickelodeon and stars of the television series of the same name, will perform a concert for students of St. Margaret School in Bel Air as part of promotion sponsored by Walgreens and CBS Radio. Students at the Bel Air Catholic school, which is celebrating its 100th...Read More
Archbishop, Mayor to sign lease at Friday press conference Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, and Baltimore City Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake will come together at a press conference Friday, October 1 at 9 a.m. at Shrine of the Sacred Heart School to announce a partnership that will allow the Baltimore City Public School System to...Read More
Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Ellicott City will be featured on NBC Night News this evening for its recent participation in a National Football League (NFL) program that offers more than 16,000 elementary schools the chance to win one of 35 $10,000 grants and a visit from an NFL player. Schools must show...Read More
St. Louis Catholic School in Clarksville, Howard County, was named a National Blue Ribbon School by the U.S. Department of Education earlier today, becoming the 14th Catholic school in the Archdiocese of Baltimore to receive the honor. The designation is the highest academic honor bestowed upon a school by the U.S. Department of Education. “St....Read More
Father John Hurley, Executive Director of the Department of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, announced today the appointment of D. Scott Miller as the new Director of the Archdiocesan Division of Youth & Young Adult Ministry. Mr. Miller has served the past several months as the Interim Director of the Division and as Coordinator...Read More
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, the 40-day period when the Catholic Church asks the faithful to give themselves to prayer and to the reading of the Scripture, to fasting and to giving alms, in an effort to sharpen their senses and focus mind and heart on the reign of God. Easter is Sunday,...Read More