New year’s interfaith service at St. Ignatius marks 30th anniversary December 20, 2022By 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.
Art cart makes healing rounds at St. Joseph Medical Center December 11, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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, 2022By 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.
Parishioners give input on ‘Seek the City’ initiative October 19, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come Addressing more than 150 people who gathered Oct. 17 at Archbishop Curley High School in Baltimore for the first of 18 prayerful community discussions planned for the next two years, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s urban vicar said the church can’t maintain the status quo and expect any change for the better.
Terrence Sawyer installed as Loyola University Maryland’s 25th president October 12, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Colleges, Feature, Local News, News The love and goodwill for Loyola University Maryland’s new president was palpable during Terrence M. Sawyer’s Oct. 12 inauguration as the 25th leader of Baltimore’s Jesuit university.
Number of Baltimore seminarians hits four-decade high October 6, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations Ranging in age from 18 to their mid-40s, the total number of those preparing to become priests for the Archdiocese of Baltimore stands at 59 – a high not seen in four decades.
Garrett County parish honors lost innocent life September 30, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Respect Life The westernmost corner of the Archdiocese of Baltimore now has a prominent monument to lost innocent life thanks to parishioners of Garrett County’s St. Peter the Apostle in Oakland.
Bullseye: Men fling axes in Anne Arundel County to step up faith September 26, 2022By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Knights of Columbus, Local News, News Bob Uhl was one of more than 70 men from Our Lady of the Chesapeake and St. Jane Frances de Chantal in Riviera Beach who gathered for a night of axe throwing and log splitting Sept. 24 at St. Jane Frances.
