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Selection of pope should not be reserved to cardinals alone

Residents spoke their minds on Catholic church issues, including their dissatisfaction with the direction of the papacy, during a frank, emotional discussion on Catholic church issues held at Bel Air's Saint Margaret Church on Sunday afternoon.

The leadership change at the Vatican and the new anti-telecommuting policy at Yahoo have me thinking: what would we do without workplace dramas?

As 11 American Roman Catholic cardinals convene in Rome to elect the successor to Pope Benedict XVI, it is interesting to note that three cardinals who visited Baltimore during the last century were eventually elected pope.

Msgr. Michael Schleupner, pastor of the parish, plans to host "An Open Conversation" on the resignation of Pope Benedict at 1 p.m. Sunday at the church on Hickory Avenue and at noon on March 10 at Saint Mary Magdalen Mission, off of Route 22.

The next pope must pursue an agenda of radical transparency for the church.

Catherine Bellis was baptized at St. Timothy's Episcopal Church on Ingleside Avenue. She met her husband, Walter, singing in the choir. They were married there and raised eight children in the Catonsville parish where she taught Sunday school and served in the altar guild. And when the congregation gathered in the parish auditorium Feb. 10 and voted to leave the Episcopal Church and to join the Roman Catholic Church, the 101-year-old parishioner voted with the majority.

Archbishop William Lori says retiring pope is a man of great patience, keen intellect and profound kindness

Archbishop William E. Lori will celebrate a Mass of Thanksgiving next week for the papacy of Benedict XVI, the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced Friday.

For Harford County's Catholic residents, the annual Lent season is a time to reflect on how they can improve as people.

In an age when information is diffused throughout society, the Catholic Church faces challenges never imagined in the past

Pope Benedict XVI surprised Catholics in Baltimore and around the world Monday when he told a meeting of cardinals that he lacked the "strength of mind and body" to continue leading the church and would step down at the end of the month after nearly eight years.

Catholic leaders in Howard County react to Pope Benedict XVI's abrupt resignation announcement Monday, Feb. 11, and look ahead to the future of the Catholic Church and the papacy.

A half-century after Vatican II, the Catholic Church is once again in need of some fresh ideas.

On Sunday, Christ the King Church — Anglican — became Christ the King Catholic Church. The Towson congregation of about 140 is one of the first groups in the United States to join a new "ordinariate" established for those who want to be Catholic but hold on to Anglican traditions.

Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien, speaking to parishioners Sunday in his first Mass in Baltimore since his elevation in Rome last month, alluded to political battles in Maryland as he said the church must always stand up for its values.

The spiritual leader of more than 8 percent of Maryland's population, Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien, was to be elevated to the rank of Cardinal early Saturday in a ceremony at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

Father Joseph F. Barr skyped his youngest parishioners at Immaculate Conception School from Rome, where he will watch the elevation of Baltimore Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien to cardinal.

Baltimore's Catholic archdiocese, the oldest in the nation, can once again claim one of the highest ranking members of the church hierarchy as its leader.

As thousands stream into a Kenyan refugee camp, we are reminded of the need to prevent famine through foreign aid

The American who knows the most about the inner workings of the Roman Catholic Church just might be a 28-year-old guy from a blue-collar background who's living in his parents' basement in South Philadelphia.

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien has been chosen to head a Catholic order of knights based in Rome, the Vatican announced Monday, an appointment likely to move O'Brien closer to becoming a cardinal, but also will make him the first of Baltimore's archbishops not to finish his career here.

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 church source said