Tim Watkins, president and CEO of Renegade Communications, has been named president of the Baltimore chapter of Legatus, an organization for Catholic business leaders and their spouses. Other new board members of Legatus include Mary Phau, chapter vice president; Steve ...

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Is there a more entrepreneurial entity in our state than the University of Maryland Medical System? Already the third-largest employer in the Baltimore region, the system appears poised to daringly expand its reach even further. Last Friday UMMS was named ...

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At this writing we still don’t have an outcome, either regulatory or political, in the fight between the President and the bishops over the proposed mandate that employers, including Catholic hospitals and universities, offer their employees health insurance plans with ...

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Pope Benedict XVI on Friday named the 15th archbishop of Baltimore, 72-year-old Edwin F. O’Brien, to the rank of cardinal. O’Brien was named to the College of Cardinals, along with 21 others, the Archdiocese of Baltimore said in a statement. ...

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Loyola University Maryland, a Jesuit-run, Catholic university in Baltimore, announced it received a $5.2 million gift from H. Edward “Ed” Hanway, current chair of its Board of Trustees, and his wife, Ellen. The gift, which university officials said is the ...

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Gov. Martin O’Malley has taken to Youtube to promote his support of same-sex marriage legislation in Maryland. O’Malley, who had previously supported civil unions, said in July he would back a bill that would extend equal marriage rights to same-sex ...

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WILMINGTON, Del. — A Delaware bankruptcy judge on Friday ordered insurance companies to pay their share of a settlement with priest sex abuse victims that is the foundation of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington’s reorganization plan, and he angrily turned ...

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Archbishop Edwin O’Brien said he was shocked to learn he had been named to lead an ancient Catholic order in the Holy Land, a move he said shows the importance Pope Benedict XVI places on the order’s mission. The Vatican ...

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The Archdiocese of Baltimore says a church damaged by the East Coast earthquake is expected to be closed for weeks while damage to a steeple is repaired. Church officials say St. Patrick Catholic Church in Fells Point has been deemed ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Letters released by Gov. Martin O’Malley’s office show that he and the archbishop of Baltimore were at odds over a same-sex marriage bill. The letters released Monday reveal that two days before O’Malley announced plans to sponsor a ...

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