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Jan 11 2012
Dear Readers:
About 18 months ago, a group of dedicated people who care about the mission of this publication set about to study how to make it better. They strived, in the words of long-range planning committee chairwoman Patricia Bosse, of Notre Dame of Maryland University, to “maintain and enhance the rhythm of communications in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.”
‘Silent Night’ at the Vatican
Jan 05 2012
Exiting St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican just after midnight on Christmas, the young woman next to me hummed softly to her infant. The strains of “Silent Night” were not hard to discern, as she comforted her baby. It made me recall the Nativity scene we had just passed while exiting the Christmas Mass in the basilica, where Pope Benedict XVI had placed the figure of the baby Jesus and blessed the crèche at the end of the closing procession, to great applause.
Carols of Christmas herald Good News
Dec 22 2011
The classic mystery begins, “It was a dark and stormy night.” But the mystery we celebrate this week begins, “It was a silent and holy night. All was calm; all was bright.”
7 billion not too many for this planet
Nov 03 2011
You’re one in 7 billion. According to UN estimates, as of Oct. 31, there are now 7 billion people on the planet (well, a few more each day since then). That’s a lot of people. Depending on whom you ask, that’s a good thing, or a reason to panic.
Gala puts a human face on Catholic education
Oct 24 2011
The sounds of a choir of Baltimore City Catholic schoolchildren and the Archbishop Curley High School drumline welcomed 1,100 formally dressed celebrants to the Baltimore Convention Center Oct. 22 for a gala dinner feting Catholic schools in the archdiocese.
Deacons reflect on Word of God
Oct 06 2011
Monsignor James Hannon was a little intimidated by his assignment to preach the homily for the Archdiocese of Baltimore deacons’ convocation Oct. 1 in Potomac. The priest, who recently left his pastorate of a handful of parishes in Mountain Maryland to become associate director of the division of clergy personnel for the archdiocese, told a deacon and his wife, who knew him well from his time at St. Peter in Westernport, that it would be a little daunting to preach to a roomful of preachers, since the faculty to preach is one of the ministries entrusted to deacons.
Cardinal Foley sheds light on archbishop’s new role
Sep 06 2011
The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher may provide support for the bricks-and-mortar holy places in the Holy Land, but just as important – maybe more so – is its support for the living stones in the region, the living descendants of the original followers of Christ, says the recently retired head of the order.