Obituaries

Archbishop William E. Lori offered the funeral Mass for David Modell at the Baltimore Basilica Jan. 17.

Father Casimir M. Peterson, a priest who attracted international attention for using detective skills in uncovering a long-forgotten Marian crown of jewels, died Dec. 4.

A seminarian from Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg is believed to have drowned after saving the life of a woman who fell into the Arkansas River July 9.

Scalia said it wasn’t his job to make policy or law, but to “say only what the law provides.”

Redemptorist Father Thomas Brendan Loftus, who served at Sacred Heart of Jesus-Sagrado Corazón de Jesús in Highlandtown and Our Lady of Fatima in Baltimore, was remembered for the personal commitment behind his strident preaching.

Mark D. Pacione, a nationally respected leader in youth and young adult ministry, died suddenly Dec. 29.