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Priest phones home from Rome
An auditorium filled with about 500 children, nearly all dressed in red, suddenly grew quiet when the call came. The Rev. Joseph F. Barr was communicating via Skype from a sunny St. Peter's Square in Rome. He smiled broadly from a screen set up in the...Tags: The Pope, Skype, Rome (Italy)
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O'Brien becomes Catholic cardinal Saturday
Even as he prepared in Rome for the weekend ceremony that will elevate him to cardinal, Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien vigorously lobbied for political issues important to the Roman Catholic Church — a hallmark of his five-year stint here....Tags: Loyola University Maryland, Religious Leaders, Hospitals and Clinics, Christianity, Family Planning
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Pope Benedict to elevate Archbishop O'Brien to cardinal
Baltimore's archdiocese, the oldest in the nation, can once again claim one of the highest-ranking members of the Roman Catholic Church as its leader.
Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, leader of the archdiocese since 2007, was named a cardinal Friday by...Tags: Religious Leaders, Christianity, Good Friday, Cults and Sects, Georgetown University
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Hearing Dadaab's cries
—As the small plane entered the pattern to land at this town on the eastern edge of Kenya, the view from the window was of miles and miles of scrubby landscape, low trees and bushes almost the same brown color as the sandy earth beneath them. Hardly...Tags: Refugee, Foreign Aid, Charity, Somalia
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Archbishop O'Brien leaving Baltimore for post in Rome
Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien flies to Rome next month for a new job leading a global order of Catholic knights, a post that likely will lead to his elevation to cardinal, but which also begins his departure from the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Pope Benedict...Tags: Religious Leaders, Church and State Relations, Christianity, Minority Groups, Cults and Sects
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Blogger Rocco Palmo uncovers Vatican secrets — all from his basement in Philly
A 28-year-old guy living in his parents' basement in South Philadelphia just might be one of the foremost experts on the Archdiocese of Baltimore, if not the whole American Catholic Church.
Rocco Palmo facetiously calls himself "The Church Whisperer,"...Tags: Prostate Cancer, Religious Leaders, Church and State Relations, Christianity, Edwin F. O'Brien
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Vatican's envoy to U.S. dies at Hopkins after lung surgery
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican's ambassador to the United States, died Wednesday of complications from surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, church officials said. The 73-year-old Italian prelate had undergone lung surgery nearly three weeks ago and...Tags: Religious Leaders, Christianity, Hospitals and Clinics, Israel, Edwin F. O'Brien
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Papal delegate is critically ill at Hopkins
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican's delegate to the United States, has undergone major lung surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and remains critically ill, a high-ranking church source said. Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien has asked religious...Tags: Vatican City, Christianity, Hospitals and Clinics, Edwin F. O'Brien, Roman Catholicism
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New interest in exorcism rites comes to Baltimore
The rite, those few priests who have performed it say, can unfold as a quiet prayer session or a show of violence.
The afflicted person may curse the cleric, speak in a voice not his or her own, even assume facial features that one priest described as...Tags: Christianity, Internists, San Jose, Colleges and Universities, Abusive Behavior
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The mark of a leader
Sun ReporterArchbishop Edwin F. O'Brien will receive his pallium at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican tomorrow, a capstone event marking his connection to the Catholic hierarchy and to the church worldwide. More than 100 Marylanders have traveled to Rome to attend...Tags: Religious Leaders, Christianity, Colleges and Universities, Edwin F. O'Brien, Georgetown
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Obama begins work of transition
The Associated PressPresident-elect Barack Obama pivoted quickly to begin filling out his new administration today, selecting hard-charging Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel as White House chief of staff, while aides stepped up the pace of transition work that had been cloaked in...Tags: John McCain, Minority Groups, U.S. Presidential Election Exit Polls (2008), Police, Dmitry Medvedev
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'Pray for me,' pope asks the faithful
Chicago TribuneVATICAN CITY - Sunshine glinting off his golden vestments, Pope Benedict XVI summoned centuries of Catholic tradition yesterday, then asked hundreds of thousands of people gathered in St. Peter's Square to join him as he sets out on a new papacy. "Pray...Tags: Christianity, Executive Branch, Colombo (Sri Lanka), Newspapers, Chicago Tribune
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