Former director of the office of liturgy dies January 10, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Worship & Sacraments Atonement Father C. Donald Howard, director of the office of liturgy for the Archdiocese of Baltimore from 1985 to 1988, died Jan. 6. He was 71. A funeral Mass will be offered Jan. 17 at 11 a.m. at Christ the Redeemer in Sterling, Va., the parish he served as associate pastor and then pastor for 25 years until his 2013 retirement.
Father Donaghy served as Ellicott City pastor, dean of seminary January 9, 2018By Paul McMullen Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Western Vicariate Father Donaghy’s time at St. Paul included considerable improvements to its worship space. Restoration of the interior of its church, which dates to 1838, was completed in 1992, the year he arrived. Father Donaghy then oversaw an expansion of the worship space, which was rededicated in 2001.
‘Saintly man’ of Cumberland dies after life of service January 5, 2018By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Western Vicariate “He had a very deep faith, but it wasn’t a showy kind of faith,” said Capuchin Franciscan Father Gregory Chervenak, pastor of Our Lady of the Mountains. “He was very unassuming and never, ever drew attention to himself.
Brother Kevin Strong, ‘one of the giants’ of the Christian Brothers, dies at 85 January 4, 2018By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Schools Brother Kevin Strong, a groundbreaking leader at Calvert Hall College High School in Towson and Cardinal Gibbons School in Baltimore who served as the first president of both all-boys institutions, died Jan. 3 in New Jersey after years of declining health.
Sister Rosa Mystica served at St. Joseph Medical Center January 3, 2018By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries During her 16 years of ministry in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Sister Rosa Mystica McFadden worked as a nursing supervisor at St. Joseph Medical Center in Towson.
Sister Marion Agnes Jerzak, SSND, dies at 88 December 19, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Marion was 88. She served six schools in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
Beloved former Cumberland and Ellicott City pastor dies at 78 December 11, 2017By Emily Rosenthal Alster Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Obituaries, Western Vicariate “He was so well-loved in all the parishes he served,” said Father Michael Roach, longtime friend of Monsignor James McGovern. “I’ve never known his equal.”
Former Dundalk teacher dies at 75 November 22, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Sister Ann Grayeski, of the Sisters, Servants of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, was offered Nov. 21 in Scranton, Pa.
Father Gordon, T.O.R., who served in East Baltimore, dies at 76 November 16, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Third Order Regular Franciscan Father M. Gerald Gordon died at 76 Nov. 10
Sister Elise Mary, S.S.N.D., served 58 years in Baltimore schools November 16, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries School Sister of Notre Dame Elise Mary Saydah, who for 58 years served in the Archdiocese of Baltimore as an educator and administrator at St. Mary’s High School in Annapolis, the Institute of Notre Dame in Baltimore and Notre Dame Preparatory School in Towson, died Oct. 15.
Former local superior of Daughters of Charity dies October 30, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Celeste Donohue, who served as an educator and local superior of the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, died Oct. 16 at Villa St. Michael in Emmitsburg. She was 92, and had spent 74 years with the order.
Sister Mary Elko dies at 92 October 27, 2017By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate, Western Vicariate Sister Mary Elko, who gave 49 of the 73 years she spent as a Daughter of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul to missions in Bolivia and nine years to a hospital in Baltimore, died Sept. 22 at Villa St. Michael in Emmitsburg. She was 92.
