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George P. Matysek Jr.

Gov. Moore’s budget cuts BOOST, proposes phase-out of scholarship program

January 26, 2023
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Maryland General Assembly, News, Schools

Gov. Wes Moore’s newly unveiled budget cuts $2 million from a state scholarship program that helps children from low-income families attend Catholic and other nonpublic schools in Maryland.

‘I love you, Papa!’: Maryland Catholics recall encounters with Pope Benedict XVI

January 26, 2023
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Pope Benedict XVI

Catholics from the Archdiocese of Baltimore share their encounters with Pope Benedict XVI, a man one lay woman called a “wise, understanding, holy man.”

Baltimore Catholics pray for Pope Benedict XVI, Bishop Parker recalls being at resignation announcement

January 4, 2023
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Pope Benedict XVI, Vatican, Video

“I can tell you the shock was palpable,” Bishop Parker remembered. “After Pope Benedict left the room, having given us his blessing, the cardinals simply stood in stunned silence. No one knew what to say or what to do, or what would happen next, given that this hadn’t happened for so many centuries.”

Adoration chapel opens in Charles Village

January 3, 2023
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic News Service
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News

With the support of Archbishop William E. Lori and parishioners of Ss. Philip and James, Father Michael Weibley converted a chapel formerly used for daily Mass into a new adoration chapel. Daily Mass moved to the main church during the coronavirus pandemic.

New year’s interfaith service at St. Ignatius marks 30th anniversary

December 20, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Ecumenism and Interfaith Relations, Feature, Local News, News

More than 600 people from Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Buddhist faith traditions annually pack the city’s Jesuit church, St. Ignatius, to offer prayers for the city and civic leaders.

Pierogi factory: Catholic Review managing editor relishes Polish Christmas traditions

December 20, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Christmas, Commentary, Feature, The Narthex

Using a cherished family recipe handed down from ancestors from Poland, Catholic Review Managing Editor George Matysek Jr. and his wife, Treasa, spend the wee hours before Christmas making, kneading and rolling out dough and then dropping homemade potato-and-cheese filling into each carefully crafted circle.

Art cart makes healing rounds at St. Joseph Medical Center

December 11, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Health Care, Local News, News

Beginning in Summer 2021, University of Maryland St. Joseph Medical Center, Towson, has offered patients the chance to relax and express themselves creatively through the hospital’s “Heart Cart” outreach.

Rock-solid plans: Cockeysville church set to begin $6.5 million restoration

December 1, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Arts & Culture, Feature, Local News, News

More than 160 years after Irish and Italian immigrants extracted marble from a local quarry and used it to construct St. Joseph Church in the Texas enclave of Baltimore County, parish leaders are following in their founding parishioners’ footsteps.

Men encouraged to stand up for the sanctity of life

November 14, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life, U.S. Bishops Meeting - Fall 2022

Havens urged men to repent for any role they may have played in promoting abortion and for not standing up against abortion. He said they must resolve to do more so that a day will come when abortion is “illegal in law and unthinkable in culture, so that nobody would even consider it.”

All Saints Sisters of the Poor celebrate 150th anniversary of arrival in Baltimore

November 8, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Local News, News, Vocations

The All Saints Sisters of the Poor have carried out a wide array of surprisingly diverse ministries over the course of their 150 years in Baltimore.

Worth more than a thousand words

November 3, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Health Care, Local News, News

Art has symbolic value, therapist Rita Singer said, and can help get at feelings and concerns that can’t always be expressed in words.

‘Moo like a cow’

October 20, 2022
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Commentary, Feature

There is beauty and power in proclaiming our beliefs together in community worship.

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