Convocation delegates return to Baltimore energized for missionary discipleship July 6, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Faith Formation, Feature, Local News, Ministry, News, Pastoral Planning, Video Several delegates to a historic July 1-4 gathering of nearly 3,500 Catholic leaders from across the country said they returned to the Archdiocese of Baltimore with a renewed commitment to helping people of every background develop a deeper relationship with Christ.
Sister Mary Alice Chineworth, trailblazing religious sister, dies June 29, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Black Catholic Ministry, Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate Sister Mary Alice Chineworth, a former superior general of the Baltimore-based Oblate Sisters of Providence who overcame racial discrimination in her pursuit of a religious vocation, died June 21. She was three weeks shy of her 100th birthday.
Funeral arrangements for Bishop Newman announced May 23, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News A Mass of Christian Burial will be offered May 29 at 11 a.m. at the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.
Amen: Love and sex in a poisonous culture April 11, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Campus Ministry, Commentary, Marriage & Family Life, Young Adult Ministry “People really want to be challenged to be better than even they think they can be,” Father Matthew Buening said.
Cardinal Keeler entombed in basilica undercroft March 28, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Local News, News, Obituaries “There’s no more appropriate place for the cardinal to be buried than this place he truly, truly loved with all his heart,” said Father Gilbert Seitz.
Cardinal Keeler remembered: ‘There goes a prince’ March 28, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Father Michael White remembered Cardinal Keeler as a “tornado” of nonstop work who considered it the “highest form of asceticism” to never waste a moment.
Former Baltimore mayor remembers Cardinal Keeler as ‘special human being’ March 27, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries, Urban Vicariate Schmoke said the key to Cardinal Keeler’s effectiveness as a leader was his ability to listen.
‘Light of hope’: Cardinal Keeler, basilica restorer, interfaith leader, dies at 86 March 23, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Baltimore Basilica, Local News, News, Obituaries Cardinal William H. Keeler, 14th archbishop of Baltimore and international leader in Catholic-Jewish relations, died March 23.
Monsignor Armstrong, beloved rector of Cathedral of Mary Our Queen, dies at 81 March 9, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries “The church asked him to become a father to the people of God and he did that extraordinarily well,” Father Seitz said.
Archdiocese of Baltimore releases financial report for Fiscal Year 2015-2016 February 9, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Fiscal Services, Giving, Local News, News Coming on the heels of a fiscal year that saw a 3 percent increase in parish offertory giving and increased support for the Archbishop’s Annual Appeal, the Archdiocese of Baltimore’s total operating income increased by nearly $2.2 million.
Amen: Can Big Brother make you virtuous? February 9, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Commentary A government can’t make its citizens virtuous by bribing them or threatening them with punishment.
Bishop-designate Parker touched lives in parishes January 12, 2017By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Eastern Vicariate, Local News, News, Western Vicariate When Bishops-designate Adam J. Parker served as a young parish priest in Western Maryland and Halethorpe, he had a profound impact on parishioners.
