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Catholic-Jewish Relations

I am very grateful to Rabbi David Rosen for the invitation to be with you today. Vividly do I recall the times we have been together: in 1992 in Baltimore for a meeting of the International Liaison Committee; in 1994, in Jerusalem for the same purpose; in 1997, in Auschwitz, in a panel on peace-making; […]

Cardinal Keeler To Celebrate Chrism Mass 2003

BALTIMORE – On Monday, April 14, at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, William Cardinal Keeler will celebrate the annual Chrism Mass. The Chrism Mass is held during Holy Week, bringing the Archdiocesan community together as the Cardinal welcomes and blesses hundreds of adults seeking Baptism and reception into the Church. This year’s Mass is […]

Cardinal Keeler and Hundreds of Youths will “J-Walk”

BALTIMORE – William Cardinal Keeler and hundreds of Catholic young people, will “J-Walk” (meaning ‘walk with Jesus’) during a pilgrimage through Downtown Baltimore to mark the beginning of Holy Week on Saturday, April 12. In the spirit of this year’s focus for the pilgrimage – termed “J-Walking”- the participants will carry the identity of someone […]

Lenten Message

Each Lent Jesus calls us through the Church to come closer to him through our personal prayer and penance, and through our common Lenten practices. This year, with the threat of war, prayer and penance are the more urgent. We read how those in the military now realize that so much is not under human […]

Right to Life Vigil Mass

Twenty-five years ago this past October, a man unknown to most of the world stepped onto the balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. He was introduced as Pope John Paul II. He said he came to us “from a far country.” Soon afterwards, at the Eucharist inaugurating his papal ministry, he called us to […]

Reporter’s notebook: Martin Sheen says Gospel values needed now more than ever

The congregation that packed St. Peter Claver Church for Philip Berrigan’s funeral Dec. 9 was slowly making its way onto ice-covered streets of West Baltimore when I spotted the president of the United States standing outside the 114-year-old brick building.

Statement Regarding Father Robert Lentz

Father Robert Lentz has been placed on administrative leave and his faculties to function as a priest have been suspended, following recent allegations that he sexually abused minors during the mid to late 1960s. These allegations have been reported to the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office. The preliminary investigation by the Archdiocese included interviews with […]

Archdiocese Finds Theft During Audit

BALTIMORE – During a recent routine audit and subsequent investigation, the Archdiocese of Baltimore discovered that Victor Puotinen, an employee of the Basilica of the Assumption parish and previously of the Archdiocesan Central Services, had stolen $443,000. The audit and investigation revealed that Puotinen embezzled funds over a three-year period. The Archdiocese has put in […]

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