Catholic Review
Inspiring the Archdiocese of Baltimore
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations
Cathy Sitzwohl’s dream for this Lenten season is that Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore take a few minutes to pray every day for each of the 54 seminarians preparing to become priests for the archdiocese.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Immigration and Migration, News, Religious Freedom, World News
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Feb. 14 reestablishing the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships as a means to work with religious and secular organizations to help with COVID-19 and economic recovery and confront systemic racism.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
The Franciscans trace their presence in the Holy Land to 1217 when St. Francis of Assisi founded the Province of the Holy Land, a custodian priory of the order he founded in 1209 — formally called the Order of Friars Minor.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Evangelization, Feature, Local News, News
The Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Feb. 10 the elimination of 25 positions at the Catholic Center. Among the positions, 14 were vacant and will not be filled; 11 people were laid off, although some may be transferred to other positions within the archdiocese.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Appointments, Feature, Local News, News
Archbishop William E. Lori has announced clergy appointments, including new pastors in Arbutus and Baltimore.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Radio Interview
Christopher Gunty spoke with Edward Herrera of the Archdiocese of Baltimore Office of Marriage and Family Life about keeping your marriage happy, healthy and holy in these difficult times. With Ash Wednesday coming up, they also talk about family activities for Lent.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
A group of Spanish lawyers has launched petitions and lawsuits to prevent the removal of crosses by local officials, after claims that Christian symbols are linked with the country’s former dictatorship.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, Vatican, World News
As Christians pray, fast and give alms during Lent, they also should consider giving a smile and offering a kind word to people feeling alone or frightened because of the coronavirus pandemic, Pope Francis said.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, News, World News
The bishop of a Colombian city that is suffering from a deadly spike in drug violence boarded a firetruck to spray the town’s main street with holy water and help to “cleanse it” of evil.
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Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Lent, News, World News
Pope Francis will celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass Feb. 17 in St. Peter’s Basilica rather than making the traditional walk from the Church of St. Anselm to the Basilica of Santa Sabina on Rome’s Aventine Hill, the Vatican said.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News
Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore announced Feb. 11 that Jesuit Father Brian F. Linnane, its president since 2005, will retire at the conclusion of the 2021-22 academic year.
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Catholic Review
Filed Under: Divine Worship, Feature, Lent, Local News, News
Observant Mass-goers will detect a change in one of the prayers used at Mass beginning Ash Wednesday when priests will begin omitting the word “one” in the concluding doxology of the collect prayers that currently are translated as “…in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.”
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