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September 10, 2009

Archdiocese Releases Test Scores for Elementary Schools 

The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced today that students in Catholic schools in the Archdiocese exceeded the national average on standardized test scores in every age group tested and in many cases students scored in the top third of students nationally. Scores for thestandardized achievement tests, administered earlier this year to students in grades three through...
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September 3, 2009

Ten Episcopal Nuns, One Priest Received into Full Communion with the Roman Catholic Church

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, announced today that 10 nuns, formerly members of an Episcopal religious community known as the Society of the All Saints’ Sisters of the Poor, and the group’s chaplain, Fr. Warren Tanghe, were received into full communion with the Roman Catholic Church at a Mass earlier today.  The sisters,...
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September 3, 2009

Statement on President Obama’s Speech to Nation’s School Children

On Wednesday, September 2, the White House announced that President Obama will deliver a national address to the students of America on Tuesday, September 8 at 12 p.m.  According to the White House, the President is scheduled to speak for 15-20 minutes and will “challenge students to work hard, set educational goals, and take responsibility...
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August 29, 2009

Monsignor Myles McGowan, Longtime Pastor at St. Ursula, Oldest Diocesan Priest, Dies at 96

MONSIGNOR Myles J. McGowan, 96, the oldest priest of the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died Saturday, August 29 at Stella Maris Hospice, after suffering a stroke. Msgr. McGowan was the last of the many Irish born priests who immigrated to this Archdiocese from Ireland during the twentieth century. Born to John and Ellen McGowan in the...
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August 23, 2009

Archdiocese Responds to Allegation of Abuse Against Cumberland Pastor

In June of this year, the Archdiocese of Baltimore learned of an allegation of sexual abuse of a minor against Monsignor Thomas Bevan, 73, pastor at St. Patrick Catholic Church in Cumberland.  The acts allegedly occurred in the mid-1970s while he was serving as an associate pastor at St. John Catholic Church in Frederick. The...
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August 18, 2009

Cardinal Keeler Moving Out Of Archbishop’s Residence

Archbishop Edwin O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, and Cardinal William H. Keeler, Archbishop Emeritus, have announced that later this year the Cardinal will move from the Archbishop’s residence located on N. Charles Street adjacent to the Basilica of the Assumption, and into a Catholic retirement community in Baltimore County.  The Cardinal turned 78 in March and...
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July 24, 2009

Catholic Teens Perform Free Home Repairs

Approximately 275 Catholic teens and adults will participate in a nationally-sponsored “work camp” July 26-31, in which they will perform free home repairs to the houses of 45 elderly, handicapped, and low-income residents in the Baltimore area. The Micah Experience Work Camp is co-sponsored by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and Group Workcamps Foundation. Young people...
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July 23, 2009

Archbishop O’Brien Celebrates Mass to Commemorate Cardinal James Gibbons’ 175th Birthday

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien will celebrate a Mass to honor the 175th birthday of Baltimore’s ninth archbishop, Cardinal James Gibbons, on July 23 at 12:10 p.m. at the Baltimore Basilica.  Cardinal Gibbons was the longest serving Archbishop of the nation’s first diocese, serving for 44 years from 1877-1921. According to Thomas W. Spalding, author of...
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July 8, 2009

Statement of Archbishop Edwin O’Brien on the Closing of Towson Catholic High School

I am deeply saddened by the closure of Towson Catholic and troubled by the circumstances that seemed to have left the parish and school board with no other choice. The closing of this beloved institution is a source of pain for students, teachers, alumni and the parish. Every effort is being made to ensure the...
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July 7, 2009

Towson Catholic High School to Close

Monsignor F. Dennis Tinder, Pastor of Immaculate Conception Church in Towson, has informed Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien that the parish high school, Towson Catholic, will not reopen in the fall due to an insurmountable budget deficit caused by a sharp decline in enrollment. With only 163 students currently enrolled for the coming school year, a...
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June 16, 2009

Archdiocesan Immigration Coalition Holds Rally in Baltimore Before Departing for Interfaith Prayer Vigil in D.C.

Father Robert Wojtek, C.S.s.R., Pastor of the Catholic Community of St. Michael/St. Patrick and Fr. Joseph Muth, Pastor of St. Matthew Catholic Church, will hold a noon rally in support of comprehensive immigration reform before leading two buses to Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, June 17, for an interfaith prayer vigil with members of congress and...
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June 2, 2009

Four to Be Ordained to the Priesthood June 13

On Saturday, June 13 at 10:00 a.m., four men will be ordained priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore. The Mass of Ordination will take place at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Baltimore. The following men are to be ordained: Ernest Cibelli, 27, Columbia, MD—Ernest attended...
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