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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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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, Benedict XVI, Rome (Italy)
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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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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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Walters welcomes heavenly bodies
To understand the appeal of sacred relics, which have caused wars and attracted devout pilgrims for nearly a millennium, look no further than Babe Ruth's bat.
Baseball fans in Baltimore forked over $10 last week to hold the Sultan of Swat's 32-ounce club...Tags: Walters Art Museum, Libraries, Baseball, Babe Ruth, French Literature
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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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'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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Pope's condition worsens
The Associated PressVATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II was near death as dawn approached Saturday, his breathing shallow and his heart and kidneys failing, the Vatican said. Millions of faithful around the world paid homage, many weeping as they knelt with bowed heads,...Tags: Christianity, Hospitals and Clinics, Roman Catholicism, Heart Surgery, Francis George
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Faithful in U.S. unlikely to see altered message from the Vatican
Sun StaffHe was Pope John Paul II's right-hand man, a sort of vice president to the pontiff who led the church for a quarter-century. So the election yesterday of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger as the new pope is unlikely to radically alter the church's teachings, its...Tags: Christianity, Colleges and Universities, Culture, Georgetown University, Georgetown
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Septic shock strikes quickly
Sun StaffPope John Paul II's downward spiral yesterday was a classic example of what happens to a frail, elderly patient suffering from septic shock - a condition that remains maddeningly hard to cure, doctors said. "Sepsis is the beginning of a domino effect,"...Tags: Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Sepsis, Hospitals and Clinics, Colleges and Universities, University of Maryland Medical Center
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