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By Christopher Gunty
The Catholic Review
The men recently honored by Pope Benedict XVI with the title of “monsignor” are being recognized for being “totally available to the people of God,” Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien told a capacity crowd March 7 at Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
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Michael Thomas Jr., the president of the student council at The Cardinal Gibbons School, is among the speakers at a March 6 rally. Gibbons is among 13 schools in the archdiocese that will close.
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By Matt Palmer
The Catholic Review
Christian Jacobs studied the class ring he had received just months ago, identifying him as a member of The Cardinal Gibbons School’s Class of 2011.
“It’s for a year we’ll never have,” Jacobs said March 6. “This is a heartbreaker.”
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By Paul McMullen and Jennifer Williams
pmcmullen@CatholicReview.org
jwilliams@Catholic
Dedrah Richards has sent her son, Torian, a seventh-grader, to three Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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Pro-life supporters take to the streets of Annapolis for the annual Maryland March for Life March 8. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
ANNAPOLIS – Shouts of “unite for life!” echoed through the streets of downtown Annapolis March 8 as hundreds of people walked from St. Mary to the State House during the 31st annual Maryland March for Life.
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M. Kathleen Filippelli, principal of Father Charles Hall Elementary School in Baltimore, welcomes the support of former student Eric Greene, who said he was compelled to return March 4, after news broke that the school would be one of 13 in the archdiocese that will close at the end of the current year. (CR Staff\Paul McMullen)
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By Catholic Review Staff
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
Oblate Sister of Providence Rita Michelle Proctor, principal of Mother Mary Lange Catholic School in northeast Baltimore, looked forward to the day when her school’s namesake, the foundress of her order, would be canonized in Rome.
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Students of St. Mary’s Elementary School in Annapolis speak with Maryland Delegate Ron George about the BOAST business credit March 3. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
ANNAPOLIS – A business tax credit benefitting public and nonpublic schools received a major boost March 3 when Gov. Martin J. O’Malley threw his public support behind the long-sought measure.
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Brendan McCormick, of St. Peter the Apostle in Libertytown, is among the readers of the general intercessions at the annual archdiocesan Scout Mass March 7, at St. John the Evangelist in Frederick. (Special for The Review/Linda M. Norris)
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By Linda M. Norris
Special to the Review
FREDERICK – John Davis of St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Govans prays in an unconventional way.
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Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory delivers the first talk in the John Carroll Lecture Series in the undercroft chapel of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. (Courtesy Phil Czajkowski)
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By Christopher Gunty
editor@CatholicReview.org
Noting that American society places a high importance on relationships, Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory of Atlanta kicked off this spring’s John Carroll Lecture Series with a talk on the connections between bishops and their priests.
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Jennifer Connor (left) of the Peoples Alliance for Clean Energy speaks on the topic “how communities resist energy exploitation” during the 31st annual Social Ministry Convocation at Seton Keough High School in Baltimore March 6. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
Dorothy McCutheon is always interested in finding ways to expand health care to the poor and increasing education to Baltimore's children.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
Warning that human life is being devalued at every level, a top human rights attorney from California urged Baltimore health care professionals to support conscience clauses that will help protect their right to uphold the sanctity of life.
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Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien references a “new era of Catholic education here in the Archdiocese of Baltimore” March 4 at the Catholic Center. (CR Staff / Owen Sweeney III)
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Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien officially announced the consolidation of 13 schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore March 4, while saying he remained “whole-heartedly committed to Catholic education in Baltimore – the birthplace of Catholic schools some 200 years ago.”
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Students and supporters of The Cardinal Gibbons gather outside the Catholic Center March 4, after approximately 10 in the group discussed the consolidation of the school with Bishop Denis J. Madden. (CR Staff\Christopher Gunty)
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
A day after finding out their school would be one of 13 consolidating in June, about 150 students and supporters of The Cardinal Gibbons School showed their spirit March 4 outside the Catholic Center, the Archdiocese of Baltimore headquarters.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
A newly released report by the Sage Policy Group, Inc. has found that Catholic school students in the Archdiocese of Baltimore produce higher test scores, are more likely to graduate and are more likely to attend and graduate from college than their public school counterparts.
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Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien visits Father Charles Hall Catholic School in Baltimore in 2008. The school is one of 13 which will be consolidated for the 2010-2011 school year. Archbishop O’Brien made the decision to close the schools based on recommendations of education, business and political leaders. (CR Staff/ Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
When Monsignor Robert L. Hartnett was appointed executive director of schools planning for the Archdiocese of Baltimore in early 2009, the task was unenviable: head a team that would develop recommendations concerning school consolidations.
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The Catholic Review
Following are excerpts of the Consolidation Plan and Report of the archdiocese. Some headings and passages were condensed. To read the report in its entirety, go to www.catholicreview.org/schools.
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien has decided to consolidate 13 schools – 12 elementary and one secondary – after a year-long scrutiny of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s educational system.
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Students of St. Mary’s Elementary School in Annapolis speak with Maryland Delegate Ron George about the BOAST business credit March 3. CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
ANNAPOLIS – One day before Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was to announce a comprehensive plan to consolidate Catholic schools, a State Senate committee heard testimony March 3 on a bill that supporters say would help prevent other schools from closing.
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By Paul McMullen
pmcmullen@CatholicReview.org
The Cardinal Gibbons School is among those being consolidated by the Archdiocese of Baltimore, according to the school’s Web site and a member of the school’s Board of Trustees.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
When Monsignor Richard Cramblitt, temporary administrator of Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson, called Father Joseph F. Barr to congratulate him on his appointment as Immaculate Conception’s new pastor, his first words were: “Welcome home.”
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Monsignor Arthur Bastress, pastor of Shrine of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, joins Ambassador Audrius Bruzga of Lithuania in honoring Baltimore-native Father Casimir A. Pugevicius at St. Alphonsus Feb. 28. (CR Staff/George P. Matysek Jr.)
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
As the Cold War raged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, 1,000 nuns packed secret messages into tubes of toothpaste and bits of candy – smuggling the reports of human rights abuses and church persecution out of Communist-dominated Lithuania.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
Two months after the New England Journal of Medicine published the results of a clinical trial that used adult stem-cell research to reverse sickle cell disease in 90 percent of adult patients, the Maryland Catholic Conference is urging state lawmakers to designate money for similar research in Maryland.
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By Catholic Review Staff
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien is set to announce the consolidation of an unspecified number of schools March 4.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
Citizens from across the state will show their support for the sanctity of life March 8, during the 31st annual Maryland March for Life in Annapolis.
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Giliane Lafontant, a 13-year-old survivor of the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti, is the newest member of the student body at The Catholic High School of Baltimore. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
A cracker started rolling off a microwave oven in Tricia Matthews’ Baltimore kitchen.
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Eric Atkins, who led Mount St. Joseph to a No. 1 seeding in the Baltimore Catholic League tournament, repeated as the BCL Player of the Year. (CR Staff/Owen Sweeney III)
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By Catholic Review Staff
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.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien was joined by Washington Archbishop Donald W. Wuerl and Wilmington Bishop W. Francis Malooly in voicing “strong exception” to Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler’s Feb. 24 written opinion that the state may recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states.
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Dr. Hilbert D. Stanley, the recently retired executive director of the National Black Catholic Congress, displays the statue of his favorite saint, St. Josephine Bakhita, a Sudanese slave who became a nun. (CR file)
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By Catholic Review Staff
A memorial Mass for Hilbert Dennis Stanley, former executive director of the National Black Catholic Congress and a prominent educator, was to be offered Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at St. Bernardine in Baltimore. Stanley died Feb. 12. He was 78.
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By Catholic Review Staff
In the Year for Priests, three speakers will address aspects of the priestly life during the John Carroll Lectures held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore.
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Sister of St. Joseph Helen Wiegmann (left), a teacher at Sacred Heart School in Glyndon, listens to Pamela Sanders, principal of St. Ambrose Catholic School. Both are members of the Blue Ribbon Committee on schools. (CR Staff\Owen Sweeney III)
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By Matt Palmer
mpalmer@CatholicReview.org
One year ago this month, Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien stood in front of school and parish leaders to lay out stark numbers facing Catholic schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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By George P. Matysek Jr.
gmatysek@CatholicReview.org
Father Edward J. Bayer, a scholar of moral theology and a former pastor who dedicated his retirement to teaching seminarians in New Guinea, died Feb. 18 after a brief battle with cancer. He was 79.
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