{"id":4677,"date":"2006-11-13T09:29:16","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T09:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/bishops-in-baltimore.html"},"modified":"2006-11-13T09:29:16","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T09:29:16","slug":"bishops-in-baltimore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/11\/bishops-in-baltimore.html","title":{"rendered":"Bishops in Baltimore"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested, the public sessions of the USCCB meeting are being aired on EWTN, and you can watch online. <\/a>The bishops meet in Baltimore through Thursday, but only the Monday and Tuesday sessions are public. The rest are "executive sessions" closed to the press and public.<\/p>\n

I’ll have it on and if anything interesting pops up from the bureaucratic morass, I’ll let you know..<\/p>\n

The bishops opened their meeting yesterday by gathering for a Mass at the restored Basilica<\/a><\/p>\n

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Cardinal J. Francis Stafford, the main celebrant of the Mass, is a Baltimore native and a former auxiliary bishop of the archdiocese, and he was acting as special envoy of Pope Benedict XVI. He offered an apostolic blessing for those inside the church, including many invited guests, as well as those watching the service on the Internet or on television.<\/p>\n

Stafford carried the pastoral staff that Baltimore’s third archbishop, Ambrose Marechal, used when he dedicated the cathedral in 1821. During the service, the envoy blessed wine that had been poured into a chalice given to Marechal by Pope Pius VII, and also used by Pope John Paul II at his 1995 Mass at Oriole Park<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you’re interested, the public sessions of the USCCB meeting are being aired on EWTN, and you can watch online. The bishops meet in Baltimore through Thursday, but only the Monday and Tuesday sessions are public. The rest are "executive sessions" closed to the press and public. 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