Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Divine Worship, Feature, Local News, News
This year, one unlike any other in recent memory, it will also mean Christmas Mass starting as early as noon Dec. 24, an accommodation by the Archdiocese of Baltimore and acknowledgement of the limitations on gatherings made necessary by COVID-19.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, Hispanic Ministry, Local News, News
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, there are ways of celebrating the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Even though the world is facing a pandemic that may limit many people’s ability to celebrate the sacraments, particularly those people who are in isolation, quarantining or hospitalized with COVID-19, confession by phone is still most likely invalid, said Cardinal Mauro Piacenza, head of the Apostolic Penitentiary.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Commentary, Divine Worship, Question Corner
Father Doyle fields questions about purgatory and standing, sitting and kneeling at Mass.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Archbishop's Ministry, Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Feature, Local News, News
Clergy and some lay faithful gathered Sept. 14 at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland to participate in the chrism Mass at which Archbishop William E. Lori blesses sacramental oils used in parishes and where priests of the diocese traditionally renew their promises.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, World News
While Father Hood has now received his sacraments — he was baptized, confirmed and received the Eucharist on Aug. 9 and was ordained a transitional deacon Aug. 15 and a priest on Aug. 17 — his bigger concern now is those who received their sacraments from him, or thought they did.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, World News
The Archdiocese of Detroit is seeking to contact anyone who may have received invalid sacraments after a priest of the archdiocese learned his own baptism as an infant 30 years ago was invalid.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Local News, News
There are two reasons there is no obligation to attend Mass on the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary this year. First, when the feast falls on a Saturday or Monday (as it does this year), the obligation to attend Mass is lifted in the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Second, Archbishop William E. Lori has issued a general dispensation from attending Mass during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, News, Vatican, World News
Changing the words of the formula for baptism render the sacrament invalid, said the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
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Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Coronavirus, Divine Worship, Local News, News, Western Vicariate, Worship & Sacraments
Pastoral musicians and liturgical music publishers have jumped in to help struggling church musicians through “As Music Heals,” an emergency assistance fund.
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Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Divine Worship, Feature, Local News, News, Western Vicariate, Worship & Sacraments
“How Can We Pray?” was written by Zachary Stachowski, director of music ministry at St. Ignatius of Loyola in Ijamsville, moved by the anger he felt immediately after the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report on clergy sexual abuse was released in mid-August.
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Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, Local News, News
Music “touches the heart” and brings another dimension to what people might hear in the homily, Father Manalo said.
