How to help earthquake victims in Haiti August 20, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Feature, Giving, Local News, News In the Archdiocese of Baltimore, Archbishop William E. Lori is encouraging parishes to designate poor box collections or second collections to benefit earthquake victims. Funds collected will go to Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services.
Expanding Father Watters’ vision, St. Ignatius Parish will add grades to pre-school August 19, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Schools, Urban Vicariate The Jesuit footprint on local education expanded Aug. 19, with the announcement that the Loyola Early Learning Center, an initiative of St. Ignatius Parish in Baltimore and the Jesuit USA East Province, will open a kindergarten in September, with plans to grow into a PreK-Grade 4 school serving low-income children.
RADIO INTERVIEW: After death at 21, Isaac Scharbach continues to touch lives August 16, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints, Schools George Matysek talks with Father Albert Scharbach, Isaac’s father, about his son’s extraordinary faith and the countless lives he has touched around the globe in his death.
De camino con José en la Arquidiócesis de Baltimore August 13, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: En Español El verano es un momento perfecto para que los fieles obtengan una indulgencia plenaria haciendo un retiro espiritual a uno de los destinos.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Holly Ordway and Emily Koczela August 9, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Books, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Dr. Holly Ordway discusses her new book, “Tolkien’s Modern Reading – Middle-earth Beyond the Middle Ages” and how Tolkien’s Catholic faith influenced the author’s work. Also, Emily Koczela talks about the Very Young Catholic Project, which is a series of books that deal with the life of everyday Catholic children around the world.
Mask mandate returning to Baltimore City parishes; Catholic Charities will require employees to be vaccinated August 9, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Coronavirus, Feature, Local News, News, Urban Vicariate In response to Baltimore City resuming the mandate, the Archdiocese of Baltimore announced that parishes in the city will require Mass attendees, all religious staff and visitors to wear COVID-19 masks while indoors on parish campuses.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Dante Barksdale’s Last Act August 2, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Catholic Charities, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview Christopher Gunty talks with Daniel O’Connor, who produced “Dante Barksdale’s Last Act,” and the two inspiring mothers – Kenyati Gerald and Terri Abbott – who forgave the men who took the life of their sons.
Sister Katherine Ann Durney, C.B.S., nursed in Baltimore Archdiocese, dies at 97 July 30, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Katherine Ann Durney, whose nursing career brought her to the Archdiocese of Baltimore, died July 23 at Marian Hall in Marriottsville, the retirement home for the Sisters of Bon Secours, USA. She was 97.
Sister Mary Brendan Conlon, OSU, served in hometown of Cumberland July 26, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Sister Mary Brendan Conlon, a Cumberland native who served in her hometown, elsewhere in Appalachia, and in Central America, died July 16 at Nazareth Home-Clifton in Louisville, Ky. She was 93.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Blessed Stanley Rother July 26, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Saints Christopher Gunty speaks with Monsignor Thomas Tewes, a classmate of Father Rother, and Maria Ruiz Scaperlanda, who wrote the definitive biography of Father Rother.
RADIO INTERVIEW: Dignity of the Elderly July 19, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: #IamCatholic, Feature, Local News, News, Radio Interview, Seniors Erin Younkins, director of the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s office of life, justice and peace within the Institute for Evangelization, talks about the dignity of the elderly in advance of the World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly.
Father James L. Connor, Jesuit leader who taught at Loyola University Maryland, dies at 92 July 12, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Obituaries Jesuit Father James L. Connor, who held national leadership roles and began and ended his active priesthood at what is now Loyola University Maryland, died June 21 at Manresa Hall Jesuit Community in his hometown of Philadelphia.
