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George P. Matysek Jr.

George Matysek, a member of the Catholic Review staff since 1997, is managing editor of Catholic Review Media. He oversees news coverage of the Archdiocese of Baltimore and is a host of Catholic Review Radio.

George has won more than 125 national and regional journalism and broadcasting awards from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association, the Catholic Media Association, the Associated Church Press and National Right to Life. The Catholic Media Association named him both Editor of the Year and Podcaster of the Year in 2024. He has reported from Guyana, Guatemala, Italy, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland.

A native Baltimorean, George is a graduate of Our Lady of Mount Carmel High School in Essex. He holds a bachelor's degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore and a master's degree from UMBC. George, his wife and six children live in Rodgers Forge. He is a parishioner of the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen in Homeland.

Baltimore Catholics return home from Eucharistic Congress on fire for their faith

July 22, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News

Many of the nearly 100 pilgrims from the Archdiocese of Baltimore who attended the National Eucharistic Congress July 17-21 in Indianapolis are leaving the historic gathering renewed in faith and more determined to spread devotion to the Blessed Sacrament in their home parishes and local communities.

Father Gills retires after a ministry that took him around the world and around the Archdiocese of Baltimore

July 2, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Retirement, Vocations, Western Vicariate

Whether celebrating Mass on the hood of a Humvee in a war zone or inside a clear-glass church near Deep Creek Lake looking out to the mountains of Western Maryland, Father Thomas Gills sought to convey the same sense of the sacred.

Cathedral of Mary Our Queen introduces special novena

June 29, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Saints

With the blessing of Archbishop William E. Lori, the Cathedral of Mary Our Queen has instituted a special novena that invokes the intercession of nine saints featured in side altars at the Homeland cathedral.

Back to basics: New stage of formation helps shape spiritually grounded seminarians

June 11, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

Promoted by Pope Francis, the additional year of formation focuses less on academics and more on cultivating virtue and a well-tuned prayer life – along with a sense of service and fraternity.

Coming home: First-year seminarians returning to historic Paca Street location

June 11, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Vocations

A $10 million project to open the Blessed Father Michael J. McGivney Propaedeutic House of Formation is nearing completion along Paca Street in Baltimore, with the first seminarians expected to arrive in August.

‘He’s truly there:’ Hundreds of pilgrims process with Eucharist through Baltimore streets

June 7, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Eucharist, Feature, Local News, News

“Even as beautiful as this place is, even as beautiful as any church or altar or tabernacle or sacred vessel, you were created to hold God and to be the vessel that carries him into the world,” Bishop Lewandowski said, “so that the world might know his loving presence, his grace, his goodness, his mercy and his salvation.”

Safe Streets opens new Cherry Hill office as leaders tout success against violence

May 31, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Catholic Charities, Feature, Gun Violence, Local News, News, Social Justice

William McCarthy Jr. insists it’s not a matter of opinion that a public health program known as “Safe Streets” helps reduce violence in Baltimore City. The longtime executive director of Catholic Charities of Baltimore called it a statistical fact.

La evangelización en el corazón del plan ‘Busquemos la Ciudad Venidera’

May 28, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: En Español

A medida que surgen nuevas parroquias en el marco de ‘Busquemos la Ciudad Venidera’, el plan de revitalización de la iglesia católica en el área metropolitana de Baltimore, recientemente presentado, los líderes de la arquidiócesis animan a las nuevas comunidades religiosas a adoptar un enfoque de la evangelización que emule el espíritu de la era apostólica.

Evangelization at heart of Seek the City to Come plan

May 22, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come

As new parishes emerge from the recently unveiled Seek the City to Come plan for revitalizing the Catholic Church in the Baltimore metropolitan area, archdiocesan leaders are encouraging the newly forming faith communities to embrace an approach to evangelization that emulates the spirit of the apostolic age.

More than a ‘cracker’

May 8, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Amen, Amen Matysek Commentary, Commentary, Eucharist, Feature

As one of my own daughters prepares to receive her first Communion this spring, my wife and I try to explain that in the Eucharist we encounter the God of the universe. Just as food feeds and nourishes our bodies, the Eucharist feeds and nourishes our souls. It gives us the strength to resist sin and to be Christ’s presence in the world.

Little Sisters of the Poor honored with “Fishers of Men” award

May 7, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Journalism, Local News, News

“They revere the sacredness of human life,” Archbishop Lori told more than 200 people who gathered April 27 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., for Guadalupe Radio Network’s benefit dinner that honored the Little Sisters of the Poor with its “Fishers of Men” award.

Nearly 1,000 parishioners weigh in on Baltimore parish reconfiguration proposal at final listening session

May 1, 2024
By George P. Matysek Jr.
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, News, Seek the City to Come

“This is difficult,” the bishop said. “It’s heart-wrenching. But we’re at a pivotal moment in the city church. We need to do this. We need to do this because our church membership is getting older and we’re not replacing ourselves.”

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