Before young adults began moving into the Highlandtown neighborhoods surrounding St. Elizabeth of Hungary in the last few years, Mildred Steibe never heard a baby cry at Mass.Read More
When Marimar Trejo is surrounded by a million young people at World Youth Day in Madrid Aug. 15-23, she will not only represent the Archdiocese of Baltimore, but thousands of young Hispanic immigrants to the U.S. who can’t travel because they lack documentation.Read More
Downtown workers, parishioners and others who want to take some time to pray in front of the Blessed Sacrament will soon have their chance every workday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.Read More
CRESAPTOWN – Nearly two months after Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien gave his approval to establish a unified Cumberland-area parish out of five existing ones, the new “Our Lady of the Mountains” parish is taking shape.Read More
The Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH) has published draft regulations that would more tightly regulate the state’s surgical abortion clinics. The regulations would require clinics to follow regulations similar to the ones already governing other outpatient ambulatory surgical centers.Read More
WASHINGTON – In more than half of the states, Catholic officials have been living for years with mandates that health insurance plans must cover FDA-approved contraceptives in their prescription drug plans.Read More
Two days before Gov. Martin J. O’Malley announced his July 22 decision to sponsor legislation legalizing same-sex marriage in Maryland, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien sent him a private letter urging O’Malley – a Catholic – to “refrain” from promoting the redefinition of marriage.Read More
DENVER – The archbishop of Quebec told members of the Knights of Columbus gathered in Denver for their convention he hoped they would be transformed, just as the first disciples had been transformed at the Transfiguration.Read More
When it was first announced in February that St. Michael Parish in Fells Point was closing and joining an expanding bilingual community at Sacred Heart of Jesus a mile away in Highlandtown, longtime parishioner Pamela Perc wasn’t sure what to do.Read More
I am responding enthusiastically to Jim Devereaux’s letter titled “When will we learn importance of adult faith formation?” (CR, July 28). A “Pastoral Plan for Adult Faith Formation in the United States,” as issued by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 1999, was established in the Archdiocese of Baltimore by Cardinal William H. Keeler...Read More