A Raphael masterpiece that hangs in the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore is getting national attention this holiday season as the U.S. Postal Service features the “Madonna of the Candelabra” as one of its 2011 Christmas stamps.
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Interfaith leaders pledge to defend traditional marriage in Maryland
Leaders of a newly-formed pro-marriage coalition came out swinging against efforts to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland – pledging in a Nov. 30 press conference to rally citizens across the state to defeat legislation that would alter the traditional definition of marriage.
CRS partners include U of M Medical School leader who is Cathedral parishioner
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti –On a sweltering October day, a team of leaders from Catholic Relief Services stopped at St. Francois de Sales Hospital here to receive an update on plans to rebuild and transform it into a teaching hospital.
Vatican will not consider Annapolis healing case
Vatican experts have declined to consider the case of the apparent healing of an Annapolis woman as the miracle needed for the canonization of Blessed Francis X. Seelos, a 19th century Redemptorist priest who was pastor of St. Alphonsus in Baltimore, St. Mary in Annapolis and Ss. Peter and Paul in Cumberland.
City pastors want to help clear the streets of guns
Monsignor Damien Nalepa and Father Peter Lyons are never giving up on Baltimore City and they want everyone else to have that faith as well.
Parishes welcome new English translation of Roman Missal
Father Matthew T. Buening looked out on his congregation Nov. 27 as he was concluding Mass at St. Paul in Ellicott City and spoke words he has offered throughout his priesthood.
Miracle man? Paralyzed priest, former Annapolis pastor, begins walking
EPHRATA, Pa. – When Redemptorist Father John Murray bashed his head against a railing after tripping along a New Jersey boardwalk 15 months ago, the consequences were devastating.
Bishop Spencer honors veterans on Veterans Day
ELLICOTT CITY – In a Veterans Day homily at St. Paul in Ellicott City, Auxiliary Bishop F. Richard Spencer of the Archdiocese for U.S. Military Services challenged Catholics to never forget the needs of the nation’s veterans.
Priests overjoyed and humbled by monsignor honors from pope
Pope Benedict XVI has recognized the stellar ministry of three priests of the Archdiocese of Baltimore by conferring the title “monsignor” on two of them and raising a previously named monsignor to the highest rank of monsignor.
Men in Black games get a ‘W’ in promoting vocations
Designed as a way of promoting religious vocations, the Men in Black basketball game was all about fun and awareness.
Deacon James Mann honored as ‘Man for All Seasons’ at Red Mass
Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien helped usher in the start of a new judicial year Oct. 13 by celebrating a “Red Mass” at St. Thomas More in Baltimore.
Baltimore-native Father Oppitz survived famous ship’s sinking
A known author, philosophy professor, missionary and pastor, Father Oppitz survived the sinking of the SS Andrea Doria ship, which sank July 26, 1956.