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For Harford's Catholics, Lent means looking inward, as church looks for new leader
For Harford County's Catholic residents, the annual Lenten season is a time to reflect on how they can improve as people. "It's a much more intense look than just our daily routines," said Father Bill O'Brien, pastor of the Church of St. Patrick in...
Tags: Archdiocese of Baltimore, Mardi Gras, Lent, Havre de Grace, James Barker
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Howard County Catholic leaders react to Pope Benedict's resignation
With the sudden and abrupt news of Pope Benedict XVI's resignation from the papacy, leaders in Howard County reacted much the same way as the rest of the world: with shock and surprise. "In this day and age, they serve until they're called home by the...
Tags: Clarksville, Lent, Religious Festivals, Christianity, Good Friday
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Catholics surprised by Benedict's resignation
Crystal Sewell knows what she wants to see in the next pope: a combination of the last two. "I'm a conservative soul," the 29-year-old Reservoir Hill woman said Monday after the midday Mass at St. Alphonsus Church in downtown Baltimore. "I feel like John...
Tags: Same-Sex Marriage, Good Friday, Parkinson's Disease, Georgetown, Islam
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Mardi Gras, Grammy red carpet and The Walking Dead
Welcome to Mardi Gras week. Even on a Monday, Internet users have plenty to gawk at as New Orleans avoids allowing a celebration to get in the way of a shooting, the Pope resigns for the first time since the Middle Ages, and Jack White brings down...
Tags: Ceremonies, Taylor Swift, Bruno Mars, Digg Inc., Justin Timberlake
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Open the windows again
The polio vaccine was not my idea. Nor was the Second Vatican Council of the Catholic Church. The first idea protected my physical health. The second idea continues to protect and preserve my Catholic faith. At the time the council was convened by Pope...
Tags: Polio, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Seminaries, The Pennsylvania State University, Abusive Behavior
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Anglican parish in Towson switches to Catholicism
The Rev. Edward Meeks and his flock attended to a "million and one details" last week in the run-up to a momentous day for their church. People to talk to. Flowers to arrange. Food to cook. And, of course, the new sign. On Sunday, Christ the King...
Tags: Science, Baltimore County, Physiology, Customs and Tradition, Anglicanism
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Md. Catholics come to celebrate with O'Brien
Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, speaking Sunday at a Mass of Thanksgiving in Baltimore after his recent elevation ceremony in Rome, alluded to political battles in Maryland as he said the church must always stand up for its values. Noting that Pope Benedict...Tags: Edwin F. O'Brien, Rome (Italy), Same-Sex Marriage, Christianity, Maryland General Assembly
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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: Defense, Charity, Parochial Schools, Church and State Relations, Same-Sex Marriage
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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: Hospitals and Clinics, Timothy M. Dolan, Radio, Parochial Schools, Judges
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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: Cults and Sects, Timothy M. Dolan, Customs and Tradition, Edwin F. O'Brien, Charles Street
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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: Fells Point, Edwin F. O'Brien, Mass Media, Journalism, Church and State Relations
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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: Skype, The Pope, Rome (Italy)
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