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March 4, 2010

Local News, News

In advance of the March 4 release of the Consolidation Plan and Report for archdiocesan schools, Archbishop Edwin F. O´Brien sat down with Catholic Review associate publisher/editor Christopher Gunty to discuss the process that led to the decisions, and the ramifications. Click here to read the Q & A

Jesuit Father Brian F. Linnane (left)

Boylan will continue to influence Loyola athletics

Paul McMullen

March 4, 2010

Joe Boylan was finishing the eighth grade at the parish school at St. Charles Borromeo in Pikesville in 1952, when his parents delivered bad news: their finances would not allow him to attend what is now Loyola Blakefield.

Archdiocese Informs Principals, Families of 13 Schools About Consolidations

Sean Caine

March 3, 2010

Press Release

The Archdiocese of Baltimore informed principals and student-families today that the following 13 schools will be consolidated at the end of the current school year. Ascension School St. Bernardine Catholic School St. Clare School Catholic Elementary & Middle School Holy Family School St. Katharine School Mother Mary Lange Catholic School Our Lady of Fatima School […]

Archbishop O’Brien to make Major Announcement about the Future of Catholic Schools Thursday

Sean Caine

March 2, 2010

Press Release

School consolidations announcement set

March 1, 2010

Local News, News

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is set to announce the consolidation of an unspecified number of schools March 4.

Mount St. Joseph top seed in Baltimore Catholic League tournament

February 26, 2010

Mount St. Joseph, behind two-time Player of the Year Eric Atkins, earned the top seed and a first-round bye in the 39th annual Baltimore Catholic League tournament. The boys’ basketball showcase, at Loyola University Maryland’s Reitz Arena, begins Feb. 27 and concludes March 1.

Wasted Prayer

Archdiocese Staff

OBrien Articles

The Catholic Review I must not have been more than six or seven. My brothers and I would dutifully accompany my mother many a Monday night for the novena of the Miraculous Medal, a strong devotion of the day evidenced by a large parish church half-filled. The priest would lead the novena from the pulpit. […]

Statement of the Bishops of Maryland on the Attorney General’s Opinion on Recognition of Out-of-State Same-Sex “Marriages”

Sean Caine

Press Release

Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien, Archbishop of Baltimore, joined Maryland-serving bishops, Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl of Washington and Bishop W. Francis Malooly of Wilmington in releasing the following statement. We take strong exception to Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s opinion that the state may recognize same-sex “marriages” performed in other jurisdictions. We trust our legislature and […]

Father Hilgartner to be among leaders of workshops on new missal

Local News, News

WASHINGTON – Registration is now open for a series of workshops to help prepare priests and diocesan leaders for implementation of the revised Roman Missal.

Stephania and Rich De Mayo cradle their twin daughters

Couple celebrates birth of twin girls doctors had advised they abort

WAYNE, N.J. – Perhaps the birth of the De Mayo identical twins Dec. 29 already might hint at the girls’ personalities, now beginning to form: Natalia, the smaller of the two, announced her arrival into the world by screaming. Melania, the larger of the two, came out of the womb sleeping.

St. Alphonsus to remember heroic son of parish

February 23, 2010