For Hackett, CRS veteran leader, rebuilding Haiti is an unprecedented challenge February 18, 2010By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – During the past 40 years – from his first engagement as a Peace Corps volunteer to his three decades spanning the globe with Baltimore-based Catholic Relief Services – Ken Hackett has witnessed and responded to human misery.
New Catholic Review editor brings three decades of experience April 23, 2009By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News When 49-year-old Christopher Gunty takes the helm of The Catholic Review as associate publisher and editor, July 1, the Chicago-area native will bring with him nearly three decades of experience in Catholic journalism.
Former St. Leo pastor admits to sexual abuse January 8, 2009By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Local News, News Parishioners of St. Leo in Little Italy were informed Dec. 28 that Michael Salerno, formerly their Pallottine pastor, admitted to the sexual abuse of a minor in the 1970s and that his faculties to function as a priest have been permanently revoked.
Mother and child: A story of love and redemption December 25, 2008By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News “Malik is the child of my heart,” Ms. Brogden, 44, said. “He may not be the child of my womb, but he’s the child of my heart. And he knows it.”
St. Mary celebrates 250 years of faith in Hagerstown September 18, 2008By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News When Catholics first gathered for Mass in Hagerstown 250 years ago, they did it in secret. Since English penal laws prohibited them from worshipping publically, Hagerstown Catholics met in family homes and relied on Jesuit circuit riders from Conewago, Pa.
Kayaking helps keep priest afloat June 19, 2008By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News Father Brian Rafferty has a motor that won’t stop and the arms to match.
Mercy’s president of 31 years has much to celebrate May 8, 2008By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News, Schools She has been the president and principal of Baltimore’s Mercy High School for 31 years, and may have held such a position longer than anyone else in Catholic secondary education. But, Sister Carol Wheeler, R.S.M., somehow retains the creative energy, freshness and vision she had when she came to the newly opened Mercy as a teacher in 1961 and when she became principal in 1977.
St. Leo pastor accused of abuse, removed from ministry November 22, 2007By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Local News, News The pastor of St. Leo church in Little Italy has been removed from ministry by his religious order and stripped of his faculties to function as a priest.
St. Ignatius audience enthralled by black Catholic history address May 22, 2007By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Local News, News Charles Village resident Mark Kirby found the topic of a St. Ignatius, Baltimore, presentation on the history of black Catholics in Maryland mesmerizing, mainly because he hadn’t examined the race with the religion in a historically relevant manner before. “It’s one of those hidden corners of our history,” the white St. Ignatius parishioner said. “I think it’s an interesting topic – something I’ve always wondered about.” Mr. Kirby was joined by more than 75 other congregants May 21 to hear Dr. Diane Bates Morrow – associate professor of history and African studies at the University of Georgia and an award-winning author of black Catholic history – discuss the early struggles of black Catholics in the Archdiocese of Baltimore and their triumphs today.
Father John A. Delclos dies at 67 May 10, 2007By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries As Father Edward M. Miller prepares the homily he will deliver at the May 10 funeral Mass for his friend of 40 years – Father John Anthony Delclos – the pastor of St. Bernardine, Baltimore, reflects on how the 67-year-old retired priest was able to take the complexity out of religion and make it easy for the faithful to comprehend.
St. Athanasius parishioners become environmentally thrifty April 26, 2007By Catholic Review Staff Filed Under: Environment, Local News, News A new project at St. Athanasius, Curtis Bay, is expected to bring a little more green to the planet, parish grounds and church coffers. With the delivery of a green and orange dumpster in the St. Athanasius parking lot last month, parishioners have been eagerly disposing their discarded paper products by the ton in a recycling effort they hope will create a more vibrant environment locally and globally.
One Church with divine roles March 15, 2007By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Commentary, Guest Commentary, Uncategorized I love being part of the multitude of cultures which make up the church.
