Archdiocese of Baltimore

Religious freedom under threat at home

2013-06-16 05:00:00

On Friday, Catholics throughout the United States will begin observing two weeks known as the Fortnight for Freedom. For a second consecutive year, the U.S. Catholic Church has set aside this time leading up to Independence Day to draw attention to the...

Obama names former CRS head ambassador to the Vatican

2013-06-14 17:59:00

President Barack Obama has nominated Ken Hackett, the humanitarian who served as president of Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services for 18 years, as the next U.S. ambassador to the Vatican. The announcement, made Friday, means Hackett will become the...

Calvert Hall alumnus Frank Bramble named interim president

2013-06-13 16:29:00

Frank Bramble, Class of 1966, was named interim president of Calvert Hall College High School on Thursday afternoon. The announcement came in a press release by email a week after Brother Thomas Zoppo left the school after a four-year tenure, citing...

Looking back on good times, troubled times at Gwynn Oak Park [Reisterstown]

2013-06-12 03:10:00

Do you remember Gwynn Oak Junction? Then you may have gone to the movies at what was the Ambassador Theatre, bought your groceries at Schreiber's, purchased your very first Halloween costume at Read's, spent your allowance at Ben Franklin, and gotten your...

Religious groups pushing for city stormwater fee reduction

2013-06-11 17:53:30

The two Catholic parishes led by the Rev. Robert Wojtek could pay more than $6,000 in new city stormwater fees later this year — an amount equal to an entire Sunday collection at his Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Highlandtown. To Wojtek, that...

Scholars at St. Louis School scoop up scholarships [Clarksville]

2013-06-11 05:10:00

Colleen Craig at St. Louis School can't believe it's already June and eighth-graders are graduating. Where do the years go? Time may seem to drag for the young, but it flies for adults. Thanks, Colleen, for taking time to share the news. Three St....

Six to be added to Edgewood High School Hall of Fame

2013-05-30 07:09:00

Six people will be added to the Edgewood High School Hall of Fame during afternoon and evening ceremonies to be held at the school on Wednesday, June 5. The six will join 20 others inducted during the first two years of the program which honors alumni,...

Police investigating sex abuse allegations at Anne Arundel Catholic school

2013-05-08 17:42:22

Anne Arundel County police are investigating sexual abuse allegations by a former student at Monsignor Slade Catholic School in Glen Burnie, officials of the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Wednesday. In a letter posted on the archdiocese website and...

O'Malley signs death penalty repeal

2013-05-02 15:46:11

Surrounded by religious leaders, civil rights activists and others who have fought for years to stop executions in Maryland, Gov. Martin O'Malley signed legislation Thursday repealing the state's death penalty. Unless the law is overturned in a...

O'Malley to sign death penalty repeal today

2013-05-02 03:00:00

Gov. Martin O'Malley will sign legislation Thursday morning abolishing capital punishment in Maryland -- a goal of his since he took office in 2007. The governor's approval will make Maryland the 18th state to repeal the death penalty. A throng of...

Keeping a third-generation piano business finely tuned

2013-04-28 16:32:00

Recession being the bane of piano retailers, it seems wholly remarkable that Harry Cohen and his son, Lou, decided to start selling Baldwins and Wurlitzers in 1937 — the year the economy relapsed toward the end of the Great Depression. But somehow...

Joseph E. Welsh, educator

2013-04-27 11:16:11

Joseph E. Welsh, a retired Baltimore County public school educator who was also a hospice volunteer and Eucharistic minister, died Monday of melanoma at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson. The Oak Crest Village resident was 80. "He was both my teacher and...

Fr. John Hurley, executive director of the Department of Evangelization for the Archdiocese of Baltimore, speaks to the crowd of nearly 1,000 Catholic young people joining Archbishop William Lori in the 20th annual Archdiocesan Youth & Young Adult Pilgrimage.

2013-03-23 00:00:00

From left, Father John Hurley, C.S.P., Msgr. Bruce Jarboe, Rector, and Father Michael DeAscanis, Dir.

2013-03-13 00:00:00

Archbishop William E. Lori of the Archdiocese of Baltimore gives a blessing to the University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center.

2012-12-17 00:00:00