Little Sisters of the Poor stand firm against mandate January 13, 2014By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Religious Freedom The sisters object to having to provide contraceptives, sterilizations and abortifacient drugs within their employee health insurance coverage.
Renovated St. Agnes Hospital chapel sparkles January 2, 2014By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News The chapel will be renamed in honor of Cardinal William H. Keeler, honorary chairman of the hospital’s Beacon of Hope capital campaign that helped raise $21 million toward the hospital’s $25 goal.
Father Ruane marks 25 years in Poplar Springs December 20, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News One of the longest-serving pastors of a single parish in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, the 70-year-old Baltimore native will mark his anniversary at St. Michael with a special Mass celebrated by Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski Dec. 28 at 5 p.m. – 25 years to the day when Father Ruane first reported for duty.
Under Mandela, South Africa became beacon to world, says Bishop Ricard December 18, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Racial Justice Witnessing thousands of South Africans of all races vote in the first free elections after the fall of apartheid was a “great, life-changing experience” for Bishop John H. Ricard, S.S.J. “It was a very exhilarating experience to see old enemies finally reconciling and to actually see the birth of a country,” remembered Bishop Ricard, a […]
Catonsville family plans heart center in China November 22, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News Ann Bartlinski and her husband, Ed, are in the process of opening a heart center in Beijing, China, called “Love You More Heart Home” for orphans and children of poor families
Westminster pastor honored as ‘Man for All Seasons’ October 28, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Respect Life Michael May, a former president of the St. Thomas More Society who has known Monsignor Farmer for 48 years, described his friend as someone who has always had an innate ability to see the good in everyone and an “extraordinary empathy for anyone he ever met.”
Remembering a friend October 17, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Blog, Journalism, The Narthex Chris was one of my greatest mentors. I learned more from reading his eloquent prose and sitting next to him at the Catholic Review than I did in any writing course. More than that, he became a friend.
Tom Clancy, 66, was supporter of Catholic education October 2, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Bestselling novelist Tom Clancy died Oct. 1 at 66.
WWII prisoner of war recalls capture, redemption September 19, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News U.S. Army Air Corps Corporal Leo Wojciechowski took part in a ceremony at the Pentagon honoring U.S. prisoners of war.
All in the family: Seminarians include pair of brothers August 15, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Vocations The priesthood is all in the family for two pairs of brothers in the Baltimore archdiocese.
Of haberdasheries and ‘Death Dust’ August 15, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Commentary For years, a tattered and taped copy of the Aug. 30, 1902, issue of The Catholic Mirror has jockeyed for attention on my sometimes-cluttered desk at the Catholic Review.
Bishop Gossman, first urban vicar, dies at 83 August 13, 2013By George P. Matysek Jr. Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries Bishop F. Joseph Gossman, a former auxiliary bishop of Baltimore who served as the archdiocese’s first urban vicar, died Aug. 12.
