Approximately 350 students gathered at the Baltimore Basilica Oct. 10 to learn about Our Lady of Fatima, pray the rosary and tour America’s first cathedral as part of the archdiocesan Rosary Congress.
Baltimore Basilica
Baltimore Basilica launches plan to be ‘radically open’
Leaders of the Baltimore Basilica are launching a plan to increase the hours the church is open, while simultaneously commissioning “urban missionaries” whose ministry will focus on developing relationships with people on the city’s streets.
‘Face of the Basilica’ provides welcoming presence
When visitors arrive at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Baltimore, Mark Marozza is the man they are most likely to encounter.
Rosary Congress opens with Mass at Baltimore Basilica
The Our Lady of Fatima Rosary Congress, a week-long devotion of prayer with the rosary, concludes Oct. 13. Seven parishes participate.
Cardinal Keeler entombed in basilica undercroft
“There’s no more appropriate place for the cardinal to be buried than this place he truly, truly loved with all his heart,” said Father Gilbert Seitz.
‘Light of hope’: Cardinal Keeler, basilica restorer, interfaith leader, dies at 86
Cardinal William H. Keeler, 14th archbishop of Baltimore and international leader in Catholic-Jewish relations, died March 23.
Amen: Jesus misses you
Eucharistic adoration at the Baltimore Basilica is in trouble. See what you can do to help – and grow closer to Christ.
‘Art in Heaven:’ Archdiocese bids farewell to Monsignor Valenzano
In a final sendoff marked with heartfelt displays of raw emotion, hundreds of people said goodbye to Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano.
Monsignor Valenzano, basilica rector who touched the lives of thousands, succumbs to cancer
Monsignor Arthur F. Valenzano, basilica rector and a man described by Archbishop Lori as a priest of “tremendous pastoral love,” died Sept. 5.
Praise Jesus for Monsignor Valenzano
When a doctor told Treasa and me two years ago that our unborn baby likely wouldn’t live for more than a day or two after his birth, one of the first people I called was Monsignor Arthur Valenzano.
Georgie’s Story: Choosing life when the prognosis is death
The ultrasound technician who gently swept a probe across my wife’s gel-covered belly spoke hardly a word.
Monstrance fished from reservoir centerpiece of new adoration chapel
A man fishing at the Loch Raven Reservoir in north Baltimore County some two decades ago was convinced he had snagged a big fish when his line hooked something substantial.
After reeling in his haul, the angler had no fish. He had, however, caught something even more remarkable: a large Gothic monstrance used by Catholics to hold the Eucharist for worship.