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After six months off to recover from the wear and tear of a North American record 22 straight victories, Rapid Redux will be retired next week to Kentucky Horse Park, his owner Robert Cole and trainer David Wells said.

William E. Lori became the 16th Archbishop of Baltimore Wednesday with a nod to the city's stature as the nation's oldest Catholic diocese and a look forward to the challenges of the 21st Century.

About 2,000 people are expected at William E. Lori's installation today as Archbishop of Baltimore, including 400 priests, 80 bishops and eight cardinals, who will file in solemn procession into the cathedral at 1:30 p.m.

Even in Baltimore, where juveniles are the victims of homicides about once a month, the slaying of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin has struck an unusually deep chord. Why?

One more Catholic school in Baltimore — St. Ambrose — is set to close, a sad end to Cardinal Edwin F. O'Brien's disastrous stewardship of the city's parochial educational system.

University of Maryland Medical System to buy St. Joseph Medical Center

Two U.S. Supreme Court decisions unintentionally bolstered the appeal arguments of a convicted child rapist, who was accused of terrorizing students at a Baltimore Catholic school where he taught in the 1970s and could, under the rulings, be released from prison despite having been sentenced to four life terms.

A Catholic bishop who has been at the forefront of fighting the Obama administration's contraception policy will lead the Archdiocese of Baltimore and replace Cardinal Edwin O'Brien.

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.

St. Agnes Hospital officials said Monday they were negotiating with the Archdiocese of Baltimore to buy the historic Cardinal Gibbons High School.

Catholic Church's opposition to same-sex marriage is inspired not by bigotry but the desire to preserve a cherished institution

St. Jospeh Medical Center enters debate over merger between Catholic and non-Catholic hospital

Some never let on that they were wavering. Those who did faced the same formidable political and social forces that conspired to scuttle the measure last year: Namely, a determined religious opposition.

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.

As a handful of undecided Maryland delegates wrestle over their position on same-sex marriage, they've received calls from national leaders trying to move them one way or another on the bill.

Archbishop O'Brien's stand against requiring schools and hospitals to offer health plans that include free contraceptives reflects the courage of the founding fathers

Archbishop O'Brien is wrong on the contraceptives requirement

The recent letter from Archbishop Edwin O'Brien was a symptom of a larger problem

By many estimates, about a dozen members of the House of Delegates haven't decided how to vote on Gov. Martin O'Malley's proposal to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland. They are the audience witnesses most want to reach as activists on both sides prepare to make their best case at a hearing.

Baltimore's Catholic leader's letter shows selective outrage over the complex issue of contraception, public health and the role of government

Edwin F. O'Brien of Archdiocese of Baltimore writes letter saying church will not comply with birth control mandate under health care reform.

Religious groups that oppose birth control don't have a monopoly on morality

Church officials and other religious-based groups are gearing up to fight a recent order by the Obama administration that they include birth control in employee health plans — a requirement some say could also threaten the protection of other moral beliefs and practices.

Archbishop O'Brien showed little "pastoral engagement" when it came to the closing of Baltimore Catholic schools.

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.

New owners of St. Joseph Medical Center should preserve tradition of caregiving

Archbishop O'Brien says that St. Joseph Medical Center should look for another Catholic hospital as a partner institution.

Brother James Kelly, president of Mount St. Joseph's High School for the last decade, died of prostate cancer early Saturday at his order's residence in Irvington. He was 64.

Father Rick Hilgartner, a scholar of sacred liturgy and executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Divine Worship Office, was recently elevated to monsignor.

On. Nov. 20, Brother James Kelly, president and CEO of the all-boys Catholic high school in Baltimore, will receive the Cross of Honour, the most prestigious award a member of the laity can receive from the pope.

Catholic leaders worry that same-sex marriage will erode religious liberties is off-base.

Church leaders say 'religious liberty' is under attack

The Archdiocese of Baltimore added a new religious order of nuns Tuesday, its first in decades and one which began as an Anglican community.

Stella Maris International Seafarers Center is a home away from home for international merchant mariners.

Achievements abound in the Awalt family of Cockeysville, and we're happy to share with the community these wonderful accomplishments.

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.

Inspections of highway, toll and school facilities in some counties in Maryland continued Wednesday morning after a magnitude-5.8 earthquake struck in Virginia, causing tremors felt from Georgia to Canada.

Same-sex marriage: Baltimore archbishop has the obligation to stand up for church traditions, and the governor should not check his faith at the door

Latest census data shows a drastic increase in Maryland same-sex couples and the need for same-sex marriage

Archbishop Edwin F. O'Brien overstepped his authority by calling on Gov. Martin O'Malley to oppose gay marriage because of his Catholic religion

The number of same-sex couples living in Maryland increased by more than 50 percent over the past decade and more than a quarter of the state's gay couples are raising children, according to 2010 census data released Thursday.

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

It's been a year since the archdiocese announced the closings of a dozen Baltimore Catholic schools with a promise that it would make education available and affordable. Not for me, it didn't.

Baltimore Archbishop Edwin O'Brien will never advocate a married priesthood

Archbishop 's attempt to blame sexual abuse on society's sexual climate is flawed.