MARYLAND
The Baltimore Sun
By Jonathan Pitts,
The Baltimore Sun
Nearly 300 bishops from across the nation will determine the coming year’s agenda for the American Roman Catholic church when the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops begins its annual fall meeting Monday in Baltimore.
The bishops will spend four days at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Harbor East, where they will hammer out organizational positions and courses of action on matters ranging from schooling and medical care to liturgy and exorcism.
The Baltimore archdiocese, the oldest in the United States, is marking its 225th anniversary this year, a milestone the conference will celebrate with a Mass at the Basilica of the Assumption Monday evening.
To Baltimore Archbishop William E. Lori, it will be a highlight of the conference.
“The practice of bishops gathering together to discuss important matters in the life of the church began at the Basilica many, many years ago,” Lori said. “It’s a wonderful way to celebrate the anniversary, but also to celebrate our efforts to work together as a conference. It will be a homecoming.”
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